I've been going to the GP to complain about wideapread pain and disabling fatigue since I was 11, back then the GP just blamed it on me not wanting to go to school (I loved school), no one took me seriously for years and I was constantly given paracetamol and sent to psychiatrists.
Eventually I started googling and researching what could be wrong myself, I was sent to Rheumatology when I was 15 and I asked if it could be Fibromyalgia and was told it could be, I went back and told my GP this and he just agreed no questions asked.
Fast forward 5 years, 20 and pregnant and don't feel any further forward, I tell my GP I think I have Ehlers -Danlos and I want it investigated as it can cause problems in pregnancy and birth, am told I wont as I don't fit the height and weight normals, I go see another GP and ask to be re refered to Rheum, I get a diagnosis of EDS.
Pain clinic and GP are trying to make me take anti depressants that are used as painkillers on a fairly high dose. I really don't want to take them and suggest trying a vitamin infusion instead for the fatigue, he refuses and says.
"I think you are thinking about this too much Schrod and medicalising yourself too much not that I am saying what you say you are feeling isn't true"
I feel like that bloody lost 11 year old again and I am starting to really hate myself and my life, they wont take me seriously and everytime I leave that surgery I cry, if it wasn't for my DS I am sure I would be contemplating ending it all and I have a fair few times. The ironic thing is, I don't ever feel depressed until I visit my GP and realise all hope is gone.