Health problem for 2 years soon with no diagnosis, myalgia?

[moronisucks]

Hello, I need help getting to the bottom of things and all four doctors claim I'm depressed yet I don't express a single sign of depression nor am I unhappy in such a way.

I got an influenza at the end of 2015 with recurring infections after that for a while, then I never got back to normal. I remember the aches I got from that first influenza (not actually confirmed by a doctor but could have been), the aches manifested mostly in the shoulder blades and shoulders and very slightly in upper arms and upper lower legs.

This pain I've had ever since then and it's been less severe at times and more severe at times, it varies a lot, it's also accompanied by fatigue that also varies in severity. Sometimes the fatigue lasts for weeks of me feeling like sitting up is too hard sometimes because of the tiredness and sometimes it's only moderate but still feeling too tired to do any activities often. I have not noticed any improvement with excersize.

On top of this when it gets to be as worst I also experience what I've referred to as "episodes" in where I experience STRONG fatigue out of nowhere when I'm sitting up or doing something to the point that I have to lay down. At this point I often check my heart rate because it feels elevated because I somewhat feel my pulse throughout my body and it's often around 85-90. My resting heart rate has been known to be between 55-65 otherwise, during these episodes I may experience a moderate tingling sensations in hands and lower legs and feet and I feel like I am too tired to keep my eyes open, this lasts often for an hour and then goes away slowly as I feel the tingling feeling leaving slowly. Very weird and when it happens it tends to happen faulty for a few days and then disappear for a week or a few, only the episode part that is.

Doctors claim I cannot have fibromyalgia because I don't have the so called tender spots and because it comes and goes, to me this appears to be bogus. I can feel pain around my shoulder blade areas when pressing a bit hard. Not sure if that's normal.

I've also regularly had apparently SLIGHTLY elevated  TSH on many occasions however always with perfectly normal T3 and T4.

I did suspect Polymyalgia rheumatica for a while but I'm no doctor and know nothing.

[SassyLassie]

Hello~It sounds to me more like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it has symptoms that over-lap that of fibromyalgia. Also, now some doctors are saying you don't have to have all those pressure point pains to have fibro. I would see another doctor, ask him to run an Epstein barr test and other blood work. I truly think, however, that it is Chronic Fatigue syndrome. I hope you get the help you need from a good doctor.

[mysterydxXs3]

Chronic fatigue syndrome can have all these symptoms. PMR doesn't usually affect legs but you never know, for PMR you must be over 50, have a SED rate over 36 I believe.

There are so many myalgias going around these days they can be impossible to DX. I'd make sure they've run all protiens,vitamin deficiency,etc.

the best way to determine if it's psychosomatic is a short prednisone cycle.

best of luck I'm dealing with similar issues for 4ish years.

[mysterydxXs3]

sorry if the prednisone works it's not in your head, also try folic acid for fatigue it helps me a lot,you can also try magnesium for your legs and see if it helps