It started in late January /early February, one morning I woke up and had agonising knee pain and could barely get around, and a week later fluid built up on both knees which has now gone, this pain lessened over a few days but has remained constantly for the last two months. I've always had a weird grinding noise from my knees when getting up. My feet are putting me in agony too, I've had issues with my feet for years, I think the way they make contact with the floor when I walk is changing because now all the pressure seems to be on the inner balls of my feet on both feet, and I have calluses where I never used to before. My toes randomly go red, warm, and swell some days, and any touch on those days is extremely painful. This is after no injuries. The only sport I do regularly is yoga, not much else, and I practice my form and am very aware not to over exert my body.As well as this, from late last year I have started to lose control of some of the joints in my hands, the last joint on the tip of my right index finger and the joint where my thumb attaches to my hand (I don't know what it's called) sometimes I have trouble gripping things.I'm not double joined, my joints click a ridiculous amount. I get a lot of pain in the back of my neck (spine) and my right shoulder. My doctor said the cracking/popping is nothing to worry about, even though I said a lot of it is uncomfortable or sometimes painful cracking or grinding.As some background - I have lost 96lbs over the last 4 years, I was very overweight for around 6 months before this weight loss. I'm finally at a normal bmi as of last week. My grandad has lupus, I don't know about any other family conditions because no one really tells me much about them. I have anaemia, was bulimic for 11 years, I have ibs and aspergers (if any of this could be possibly relevant).I saw my doctor about my feet in December (my feet have been painful for years, without the swelling and redness which is only the last 2 months) My doctor was dismissive and rude, basically said that I'm fine, and just waited for me to get out of his office. I went about my knees, he said to take painkillers, and that I'm fine, and to go home and put ice on my knees, that was 8 weeks ago. I called for a telephone appointment last week, explained that I can barely walk for more than a minute now without being in a lot of pain, as overall it has gradually gotten worse, and he got hostile and dismissed it again. I asked for a different doctor, she's thinking fibromyalgia, but I'm only experiencing joint pain, she's done blood tests to rule out rheumatoid arthritis and I have to wait 2 weeks for the results, she won't consider anything that isn't fibromyalgia, without even seeing me in person which I find a little strange. She said the blood test is just to rule it out so she can confirm fibromyalgia, after talking to me for less than 5 minutes on the phone.I tried to go for my first walk in a week and a half the other night (under 10 minutes) , I was in tears when I got home. Even as I'm typing this, I've been in bed for 3 hours but I can't sleep because my knees and toes are painfully throbbing. I'm sorry this is such a long post I'm just feeling so helpless that I can't get taken seriously by anyone about this, I'm only 20 and I can barely walk now. It's not as bad sometimes but then it's like I have a flare up and everything hurts 5x worse for a few days.
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