Intro and some questions...
Hi all! I came here on the recommendation of rosefox8, after I was diagnosed. It took me a while, because I was a little overwhelmed by the idea of talking about this whole thing. But I'm here now. I was diagnosed in the spring, after several months of being told, "Well, you might have this... let's test you!" I gave birth to my second child in November. I had an incredibly easy birth with no complications, yet a month afterward, my GP was insisting that my pain, fatigue, and muscle weakness that had suddenly begun were still part of recovering from the birth. Finally, I described my symptoms to my OB/GYN and she said, "I don't want to alarm you, but this sounds like MS." For two months, I freaked, thinking I had MS. Then, when the tests were negative, she had me tested for Lupus. Negative. I went to another GP, described my symptoms, and she said, "Well, I'm going to retest you for Lupus, and vitamin deficiencies, but I can tell you right now that you have Fibromyalgia."
Needless to say, the tests all showed that I was, for all intents and purposes, healthy, and didn't explain my symptoms. So, now I'm trying to just stay healthy, take my vitamins, use herbal remedies when I can, and use prescription pain killers as little as possible, because I need my liver for drinkin' and whooorin'.
However, I've noticed that my sleep is all sorts of strange. And not strange as in, "I hurt too much to sleep." Sometimes, that's the case. Most of the time, it's a case of not staying asleep, seemingly for no reason. I'll wake up every twenty minutes to a half-hour, other times, every hour. Other times, I'll fall asleep, feel like I've slept for three hours, and it's been two minutes. And I'm falling asleep at weird times, like, I sat down on the couch, fell asleep, woke up pretty sure that I was out for an hour, but it had been four minutes. Does anyone else experience this, and is it due to Fibromyalgia, or am I narcoleptic? See icon.
I was also curious if anyone else started having symptoms after pregnancy?
Needless to say, the tests all showed that I was, for all intents and purposes, healthy, and didn't explain my symptoms. So, now I'm trying to just stay healthy, take my vitamins, use herbal remedies when I can, and use prescription pain killers as little as possible, because I need my liver for drinkin' and whooorin'.
However, I've noticed that my sleep is all sorts of strange. And not strange as in, "I hurt too much to sleep." Sometimes, that's the case. Most of the time, it's a case of not staying asleep, seemingly for no reason. I'll wake up every twenty minutes to a half-hour, other times, every hour. Other times, I'll fall asleep, feel like I've slept for three hours, and it's been two minutes. And I'm falling asleep at weird times, like, I sat down on the couch, fell asleep, woke up pretty sure that I was out for an hour, but it had been four minutes. Does anyone else experience this, and is it due to Fibromyalgia, or am I narcoleptic? See icon.
I was also curious if anyone else started having symptoms after pregnancy?