I'm Caitie.

[caitielee]

Well, I'm Caitie. I'm 22 years old and was diagnosed with FM 4 months ago after being sick since I was about 12. I am so happy to have a diagnosis, but I'm struggling with it still. I work 40+ hours a week and it's fairly physically demanding. I'm hoping this forum will help me to cope and to also give me some insight into this condition. The major symptoms I have are: myofacial pain, joint pain, muscle cramps, chest pains, anxiety, depression, and fatigue.

 

[Forgetmenot]

Welcome .
Being so young with this illness is a rotten turn of the cards. But there are many ppl who come in here like u young.
A lot of fibro ppl are low in vitamin D ,this can make u hurt even more and leads to cramps .or twitching of the mussels .
Maybe ask your go for a blood test.
But even without low vitamin D u will find u still twitch jerk and cramp up sometimes.dont be to alarmed by it.
It's when your foot shoots out and kicks something that make u jump lol.

 

[cmetryme]

welcome caitie.

Fatigue will cause your lots of pain.

you will need to get that under control.

i posted under general discussions. 3 threads id like you to start reading.

1- what is fibromyalgia
2- starting a daily log book and why it helps.
3- a family member has fibromyalgia what can i do.

do what it says in all of them.
please post something after you read it in each post. that will make it go to thetop of the listing
so other folks and find it easy.

if you have any questions please post them so all can see and answer them.
please befriend forgetmenot and me as we will answer you in private msg.

you must set up allow private msg under the tab user cp.

welcome and know your not alone and this is a very real thing.
learn to accept it and that will help a lot.

do the showers and baths too.

thanks for joining.