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I may have fibromyalgia.?


I am a disabled 31 year old woman. I have had my share of pain. I have osteoarthritis in every vertebrae. I also have scoliosis, disk depletion disease and mild spinabifita.
I am to have my 7th surgery on my spine for a fracture in one of my fusions. Here's where I'm a little more concerned. I went to my orthopedic surgeon about the pain I have been having that shoots down my legs and down my arms. He reasured me that this surgery and the problem with my fracture was NOT causing these pains.
I went back to my family dr. and she did a blood test for all of the rheumatoids, Lupus, cancer, etc.... All came back perfect. No detection. So next thought is well what is it? I'm telling her that even narcotics DO NOT WORK when this pain comes on.
I live in Ontario and I'm wondering if there is a good dr. they can refer and/or more personal stories they can share with me.
BTW...I have a bad flu and my surgery was scheduled for tomorrow which of course is canceled. Devinne intervention?

shooting pains does sound like a neurological problem-
But it has beenmy experience that shooting pains are not Fibromyalgia (a disorder of teh central nervous system)

I woudl get another opinion if teh known problems could be causing this type of pain-

shooting pain down the legs is often due to teh siatic (sp?0 nerve-

could be another nerve that is causing pain in your arms and legs-

Many docs are quick to label any pain as Fibromyalgia because they use it as a trashcan diagnosis--even when

Narcotics don't work well on nervous system pain-

look into the meds for neuropathy.......

failing a test for rheumatoid is not conclusive that you don't have that particular type of arthritis. there is a possibility you may have another form since there many varieties.
narcotics are not particularly effective when dealing with pain from inflammation. fibro usually consists of having pain and high sensitivity at certain points of your body.
just adding my 2 cents.

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