For about four months I have had horrible fatigue, to the point where I will come home from school and not be able to do anything but sleep until the next morning. I went to my doctor to ask about this, and she did a routine blood work up to see if something was wrong. When the results came back, she said I had anemia which was strange because I was on both B-12 and Iron vitamins at the time; she put me on pre-natal vitamins and said that the anemia was probably the reason for my fatigue, and to wait for two months to see if it clears up.
One month later I began to get these horrible shooting pains in my joints (mainly my elbows, knees, wrists, and hips) and I went on a walk one day to work off the pain, but it only got worse. Currently, I wake up every morning in a lot of pain; I have had to wear a knee brace for a month because one of my knees has hurt so badly I couldn't move it without pain. My joints become extremely stiff when I am inactive.
Also, for the past four months, I've experienced cold-like symptoms. A lot of the time I will wake up with an extremely stuffy nose to the point where one of my ears feels clogged and I can't hear out of it for a while (I also experience a mild vertigo when I wake up). I have horrible headaches behind my eyes probably every other day, so bad that I can't focus on anything and have to sleep it off because the pain is extraordinary.
I was tested for Lupus, but the results came up negative. I have also had mono in the past, which my doctor says could be happening again (but I'm unable to be tested because I will always show up positive on the epstien-barr test because I've had it before). I don't think that it is mono, because the malaise, cold-like symptoms, and joint pains have lasted more than two months.
Help?