Stmpjumper, I really feel for you! I have only been suffering the same as you for only seven months. I am 72 and self employed. It has cost me over half of my normal business! Which is not what I am complaining about. IT HAS COST ME MY NORMAL LIFE! My family dosen't understand. Very few do, except those on this on pages like this! I have been to ever doctor in my Third World Town and State! I Glow in the Dark and I have no Blood left! (LOL!) They have found many things wrong with me thart goes along with old age the want to operate on me! No Way! But not why I HURT!!
Anyway to my point! I am on medication that helps many of my symptymons or at least eases them so I can function at 75%. I go to the Gym and do what I call "Workout". (which is about 20 minutes on a treadmill, usually at 1.0 and 20 minutes doing streching). I try and watch my diet. I rest for one hour after lunch. I have found that drinking a 12 oz glass of water prior to lunch helps not be dizzy after wards. Also, a 8 oz glas of Probiotics in the AM really helps the digestive system all day.
Although many of you may not agree I take an Oxycodone about 9 AM and another at 2PM. It helps keep the headache away most of the time. It is so disapointing to me that so many of us Suffer through such simillar things like these and the doctors can't really figure them out. They have names for some rare disesae that affects one person out of 100 million, yet there seem to be so many of us who seem to have the same or similar symptoms that they really can't pin down or can't find a drug that can cure it.
Sundance