i haven’t been officially diagnosed with fibromyalgia, partly because i don’t have health insurance and have been unable to afford a doctor visit and partly because i’m afraid that yet another doctor will tell me it’s all in my head. for years i thought it was, until i really started reading up on FM. so far just about every symptom i’ve been experiencing correlates to the disease, and most of the symptoms if the disease are what i’m dealing with.
one thing i haven’t seen on the websites yet is another symptom i commonly suffer. i will have a swollen and painful area appear in random areas of my body, sometimes on the top of my hand just above the wrist, sometimes my shoulder, ankle, knee, neck, hips etc…
this is not joint pain, the swelling is usually cool to the touch and soft, and hurts inside as well as out. for example if it’s on the top of my hand, the swollen area hurts as though bruised and the tendons also hurt, to move my hand or fingers and so on.
it gets so painful that it makes normal activities unbearable and it’s so random and sudden, and i have seen it hurt in my shoulder one day and travel (so to speak) to my elbow, my wrist, my fingers before finally going away. am i crazy? is this another symptom of the fibro?