Went To The ER

Well, I ended up in the emergency room Sunday night. I arrived at church feeling just fine at five o'clock and by six I was in a state. I could barely make it up the stairs to the balcony. I felt horrible. My chest, left shoulder and bicep were hurting. My chest was actually hurting all the way through me to my back and it felt tight. My head was pounding and I just wanted to get out of there and lay down.

After worship, a number of people stopped me to ask me if I was alright and I figured I might want to head to the ER. If I looked as bad as I felt, and obviously I did, I thought it might be in my best interests. I stepped into service and told my husband and we headed out. I really didn't want to go, but I did feel really bad.

After an EKG, chest x-ray, blood gas, labs, and urine specimen ... I was told that I was fine and that the pain in my chest was most likely ... you guessed it ... Fibromyalgia! You know, because everything is Fibromyalgia. My blood pressure was high and I don't have high blood pressure ... but it was still ... FIBROMYALGIA. They said I had inflammation in my chest wall.

Funny thing is ... I have been having these episodes for about two weeks and I have never had anything like it with Fibromyalgia. I can feel just great and then suddenly, I don't. My head hurts, my eyes hurt, I get hot (and I mean HOT!), I feel horrible and all I want to do is go to sleep. I get really irritated too and wherever I am ... I just want to get out of there and quickly! My husband tells the doctor this and he says that it could be hormones or my thyroid. He says it could even be that my sugar is bottoming out or going high and that I need to check my sugar for a few days.

Well, I checked my sugar yesterday and and it was 104 (fasting), 114, 100, 105, and 109. It definitely is not running high. So, I am going to check it next time I have an episode and see if it is low. In the meantime, I am waiting for the rest of my lab results to go to my regular doctor to see if there is anything going on with my thyroid or adrenal gland.

Just to be on the safe side ... the next time I have an episode we are going to Wal-Mart to have my blood pressure checked. I have had low to normal blood pressure all my life. The only time it has ever run high was when I was giving birth to NoNo. I was not happy at all to see that it was running high Sunday night and it concerns me that the doctor really wasn't too concerned about it.

I get it that I have Fibromyalgia and the pre-cursory conditions for Rheumatoid Arthritis. I get it that I deal with high levels of inflammation and probably will for the rest of my life. I get it that my C-Reactive Proteins stay abnormally high all the time. I even get it that all of it is chronic and that it is hitting me young. I do. I get it. But, I don't get that everything ... and I mean everything ... is explained by Fibromyalgia.

Every pain. Every symptom. I tell you ... it is frustrating and it makes me not want to see a doctor at all.