diagnosis

I was diagnosed with fibro a couple of years ago now. I had been back and forth to the GP over a period of time. I had had copious blood tests. The only thing they found was that I was prone to anaemia. I have a predisposition to low platelets also but they seemed fine.
I had spent a large amount of time in total exhaustion yet found I couldn't sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time. I had excruciating muscle pain and found the simplest things difficult. I have always loved to walk and spend time in the garden and was finding this harder and harder. I loved my job yet found I couldn't cope for more than day without feeling like I had run a marathon.
Things came to head when one day I found that I couldn't stand and raise my arms to wash my own hair in the shower. Kneeling on the bottom of the bath I realised something must be wrong. The same day I went to pick up L and A from school. As usual they ran to me and flung their arms around me. I felt like they had hit me with a sack full of bricks. Having L put his arm about my waist as he had often done felt like he was burning me.
So back to the Gp I went. I took a list of the problems I was having because I seemed to have memory like a sieve. I had even spent the night marking down how many times I had woken during my 7 hrs sleep the night before (it was 14). After sitting and saying all this to the GP. I was told that she had been worried about me as she couldn't find any reason for my illness and was on the cusp of ending me a letter after the last set of bloods came back inconclusive.
She sat and said
"well, I am sure I have an answer for you but you will not like hat you are going to hear. Have you ever heard of fibromyalgia?"
of course I said no. I had asked her if there was a possibility I ws suffering from ME. She tod me that it was a possibility s it was closely linked to fibromyalgia.
She explained what it was in full detail. Printing out a large array of literature for me.
"So, how do we fix it?" I sked. This ws when she told me that this was the bit I wasn't going to like. "there is no cure...we have to manage it..."
Then came the large supply of drugs.
I was given high dose co-codomol, ibuprofen, fluoxodine, ferrous sulphate, multi vitamins and tramadol.
This was the start of very difficult journey.....