So when after you've had fibromyalgia for a least a year, you'll may start to notice some more strange symptoms popping up out of no where into your life. This is where your life with an illness gets really fun! For me at least, it has turned into somewhat of a game since I was about 17 years old.. the is it worth my time at the doctor's game. I will be the first person to acknowledge how terrible that sounds, but I have a really limited amount of money and I am hanging onto my office job by the skin of my teeth it. I will say I DO NOT RECOMMEND playing this sort of game with your health, if you have a new symptom pop up make sure to get it looked at properly. That being said, here are my top 5 weird symptoms which popped up at one point or I never got told about by my doctor till years into my new life.
- Raynaud's Syndrome- Your fingers and toes may turn blue or purple one day when you are walking home from class on a winter's day or just a normal one which was extra long. If you live in a northern area, this could just be frost-bite. If you live in a southern area, like I do, its going to scare the snard out of you and you'll probably think you might be dying. Do not be super alarmed, Raynaud's Syndrome is a very treatable condition. Bring it up at your next doctor visit.
- Non-Cardiac Chest Pain- This particular symptom has cost me probably about two or three thousand dollars. I am so sorry if you also have this...but hey that's the Fibro life. As you saw in your doctors diagnosis pamphlet thing, Fibromyalgia may cause individuals to experience painful muscle spasms through-out there bodies, what they don't mention is that these can happen in the muscles of your rib-cage. This can lead you to thinking that you are having a heart attack on occasion even when you are not. For this one I had to get a really extensive cardiac health analysis done when I was 18 years old, but even so I still worry like a mad women when this symptom happens.
- In-ability to regulate your body temperature- Winter can feel like summer, Summer can feel like winter. The weather doesn't dictate what you wear, your body temp does. I've noticed sometimes I'm two degrees colder than the normal temp sometimes, I usually don't get higher temps then normal, but I will get colder...its even something my doctor wrote noted. Not sure if it affects anything with heat regulation, but its something I think might.
- Increased PMS syndromes- It's like if PMS became a really hardcore biker babe and decided she wanted to rule a small rural town with her gang. My doctor denies it, but the internet forums and my body say otherwise.
- Speech Impediment- Not only will you have the dreaded Fibro-Fog, but you may be "blessed" with the inability to properly find and say your words. This is my worst enemy, people laugh at me for it, and I hate it. I have yet to find a doctor who will take me seriously on this and it is a source of great embarrassment. I could be talking normally one moment then suddenly i can't get the word I want out, or I might say a totally different word and not even realize it till I'm told.
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