muddledmuppet
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- Apr 9, 2024
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- Undiagnosed
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- UK
Hi amazing people.
36yo male, I've been going to the GP for year now trying to figure out my constant tiredness, energy crashes, random stabbing pains, muscle aches, arm and abdominal tremors, foot and hand aches, constant coldness, random sporadic pins and needles, brain fog, anxiety, dry eyes and so on. No useful info in the blood tests, so have been trying Amitriptyline for the last 6 months with no noticeable change... I finally saw a rheumatologist last month, and they sent me back to the GP with a letter saying "No blood tests results showing inflammatory arthritis, so they're not my problem, I think it might be fibromyalgia causing their symptoms? Oh but they do have arthritic deformity in their hands and feet. But their bloods are all fine. You could try duloxatine instead since amitriptyline isn't doing anything?"
So eventually I got to see a GP with that, and they said it could be? But there just want me to take the duloxatine and go away I think. I've said I want to try doing some diet changes first, and persuaded them to book me in for vitamin / minerral deficiency tests to check if there's anything there...
So, I don't even know if that counts as a diagnosis? My GP 4 or 5 months ago said, "maybe CFS?". I'm pretty frustrated and exhausted. It's so hard to stay positive and not spin into a negative thought loop. I really feel like the docs just want me to take more SSRIs and leave them alone. I don't *want* a diagnosis, per se, just to either feel better and have energy again, or else to have some kind of concrete information I can work on.
*Sigh* sorry for rambling and moaning. I don't know if this is the right sub, or if I'll ever get a diagnosis or anything.
36yo male, I've been going to the GP for year now trying to figure out my constant tiredness, energy crashes, random stabbing pains, muscle aches, arm and abdominal tremors, foot and hand aches, constant coldness, random sporadic pins and needles, brain fog, anxiety, dry eyes and so on. No useful info in the blood tests, so have been trying Amitriptyline for the last 6 months with no noticeable change... I finally saw a rheumatologist last month, and they sent me back to the GP with a letter saying "No blood tests results showing inflammatory arthritis, so they're not my problem, I think it might be fibromyalgia causing their symptoms? Oh but they do have arthritic deformity in their hands and feet. But their bloods are all fine. You could try duloxatine instead since amitriptyline isn't doing anything?"
So eventually I got to see a GP with that, and they said it could be? But there just want me to take the duloxatine and go away I think. I've said I want to try doing some diet changes first, and persuaded them to book me in for vitamin / minerral deficiency tests to check if there's anything there...
So, I don't even know if that counts as a diagnosis? My GP 4 or 5 months ago said, "maybe CFS?". I'm pretty frustrated and exhausted. It's so hard to stay positive and not spin into a negative thought loop. I really feel like the docs just want me to take more SSRIs and leave them alone. I don't *want* a diagnosis, per se, just to either feel better and have energy again, or else to have some kind of concrete information I can work on.
*Sigh* sorry for rambling and moaning. I don't know if this is the right sub, or if I'll ever get a diagnosis or anything.