Fibro -peas a question

You need to have at least 11of the 18 listed spots register "positive" for excessive pain to receive the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Well, that is after elimination of other possible ailments. If you went by the chart and were able to locate as you call it "an exact painful spot" then the chances are you might have fibromyalgia. I certainly know where my trigger points are located and once during a doctor's appointment, the doctor was pressing too far to the side and not getting the reaction he was looking for. I told him to move it an inch or so to the left an bingo, major pain. Since you can feel these spots on yourself, and the fact that they are in different quadrants of your body at the same time, I'm afraid that is looking like fibro to me.

Do you have areas of your body that feel sore as if you had an injury you are recovering from, yet you don't recall hurting that area at all? Do you have excessive exhaustion and fatigue? Have you noticed strange muscle jerks in various muscles around your body like an arm or leg twinges and jerks when you are doing nothing but sitting and not flexing the muscle at all?

Have you gone through the list of symptoms that a person with fibro will display? And do many of them ring true for you? Just based on the odd pain locations alone, it would certainly be worth having a rheumy do a workup on you. I hope your don't have it, but if you do, you can get started on one of the medications that will help to alleviate some of these pains.