Really confused and worried

[Sickly_basketball_player]

Hi everybody and anybody,

I'm a nine teen year old male who has been having a lot of frustrations, anger, anxiety, depression and everysingle negative emotion that you can put down on the pallet about my continuous extreme muscle pains, stiffness and will call it relapsing stomach pains and sore throat. This has been going on for a long time, actually it's coming up to a year and has been getting worse and worse over the last 3 months. There is a long story with this whole thing.

Anyway, I have been having the lovely blood tests done over and over and over again and of course I'm perfectly healthy. Whoop dee doo. Rate now though, my legs are killing me apparently for no reason and the rest of my body isn't exactly feeling like it's floating in a hot tub. I could go on and on about the things that have been happening to me with my GP and switching GPs continuously and all the other "wonderful" doctors I've seen, but I figured I might want to look for people who have had these sort of things going on in their lives because they are the experts. I haven't been diagnosed with fibromylagia or CFS yet, but it is starting to look like that will be the eventual out come. I was wondering though, if anyobdy gets bloodshot milky sore eyes every morning with either of these conditions. Every morning I wake up and there is white mucus coming out of my eyes and through out the entire day and especially in the morning the whites of my eyes are completely red. My symptoms have been coming on gradually and I mean really gradually for the last year ever since I had a really bad sore throat and fever sickness. I do feel fatigued at times but only when the pain in my muscles and stomach gets extreme. Right now I feel wide awake. My symptoms and pains just keep getting worse and I don't know why. I can't even stretch my muscles anymore. I can be totally relaxed and all of a sudden my body errupts in huge amounts of pain and weakness and I usually end up falling to the ground and not being able to get up for a while.

So I was just wondering if anybody else has had this gradual onset of musle stiffness and pain from Fibro or CFS.
Thanks a lot for feed back.

[PlateletGal]

Here is the CDC's criteria for a CFS diagnosis. I wish they would mention tinnitus (ringing in the ears) --- because we all seem to have that as well, as other symptoms.

I hope this helps:

A CFS diagnosis should be considered in patients who present with six months or more of unexplained fatigue accompanied by other characteristic symptoms. These symptoms include:


cognitive dysfunction, including impaired memory or concentration
postexertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours (exhaustion and increased symptoms) following physical or mental exercise
unrefreshing sleep
joint pain (without redness or swelling)
persistent muscle pain
headaches of a new type or severity
tender cervical or axillary lymph nodes
sore throat
Other Common Symptoms

In addition to the eight primary defining symptoms of CFS, a number of other symptoms have been reported by some CFS patients. The frequency of occurrence of these symptoms varies among patients. These symptoms include:

irritable bowel, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea or bloating
chills and night sweats
brain fog
chest pain
shortness of breath
chronic cough
visual disturbances (blurring, sensitivity to light, eye pain or dry eyes)
allergies or sensitivities to foods, alcohol, odors, chemicals, medications or noise
difficulty maintaining upright position (orthostatic instability, irregular heartbeat, dizziness, balance problems or fainting)
psychological problems (depression, irritability, mood swings, anxiety, panic attacks)
jaw pain
weight loss or gain

http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/cfssymptomsHCP.htm

[Sickly_basketball_player]

I have had the lyme diseasse serology done once and it came back negative. I've heard a lot of things where the lyme diseasse test has come back negative, especially here in Canada and then later was evaluated again and came back positive, but I don't know.

I went to a neurologist and he was the one who suggested doing the lyme serology, but his immediate first look at me thought it was post viral syndrome, but it just keeps getting worse and worse.

[patsy10]

Sounds very much like lyme disease. Have you been evaluated for this?

[PlateletGal]

Hi... I don't have any answers, but maybe someone else here will see your post and recognize your symptoms. You may also want to consider copying your post and posting it on MedHelp's "Undiagnosed Symptoms" board.

I do with you the best of luck and hope we have some possible answers for you soon.