Hi my name is Jen,
My primary problem right now is fibromyalgia, although I have many broken bones from accidents that required multiple surgeries. Those I've been have left me in severe chronic pain, and I've been told started the fibromyalgia. Just from a bad break of my humorous, I had five surgeries. But all of the trauma has now caused the fibromyalgia and all the symptoms that go along with it. The worst of it being daily severe headaches and pain between my ribs that feel like I have a knife stuck there, I've been told it's one particular trigger point bothering me there and at the base of my head is another one..
I still have a hard time believing I have something called fibromyalgia, that causes so much pain, has taken away so much of my life, and it just feels like there is very little relief from it. I get offers for work actually quite a lot, and I can't accept. I've tried four times to go back to work. The initial shoulder break that started this snowball rolling downhill, makes work too painful. I cannot do my work because the pain in my neck and shoulder are so bad I cannot sit at a computer.

I used to be a skier. horseback rider, loved water sports, dancing, ballet, tennis and many other things. Now I crochet, watch TV, read and if I'm lucky I go out with my friends for lunch, I have a few awesome friends who bring lunch to my house for me.

I would love to find a Clinic that had a team of doctors that could look me over top to bottom, make sure that this is fibromyalgia and maybe possibly something with it additional. I'd like them to see if there were other reasons for what's going on because my doctors here seem bewildered. They can treat the symptoms a little bit, with some terrible flareups I don't know what to do. I love a place that could give me some answers. I've even been to one of our large medical centers out in Los Angeles, but they didn't treat you in rheumatology unless you had very specific symptoms. They then outsourced me to another rheumatologist that didn't really seem anything different than the rest. I may not sound like it here, but I'm usually a very upbeat happy person. I think I'm just very frustrated because I feel like I've had my lifestyle stolen within that time frame of two years. I think some of the symptoms were coming on before that,mostly the headaches, but I didn't know what they were.

I live in California, I've lived in many different parts of it, there's one area I'd love to move back to where my son and daughter-in-law live but I'm too sick to make the move, maybe someday.

I can tell you, I relate to all the things I've heard from everyone here. It's really good to hear that I am not the only one but I hate seeing you suffer like I feel like I do. I was a caregiver, and the worst part is now I have to be taken care of. I've been told that that's a gift to allow others to help you if I let it be, I'm working on that.
Anyway, it's nice to meet you all, Jen