If there is anyone out there who feels like I do and is diagnosed, or if there is anyone medically trained.
Been feeling like this for months now.
My muscles hurt so much. All of them. My entire body feels like my skeleton is covered in painful, throbbing muscles. If I push my thumb firmly in to any muscle on my body, the level of pain I feel is abnormal; it feels the same level of pain as though I am digging my thumb super hard in to a green bruise. It feels like this on my forearms, my neck, shoulders, back, hips, calves, shins, thighs, literally all my muscles feel like this.
But they throb and pain all over my body even when I am not touching them.
The level of exhaustion I am feeling is on another level. Tiredness doesn't even begin to describe what I am feeling. It's a crushing debilitating exhaustion. I get home from the school run and lay down on the sofa until it's time to cook dinner. I am falling asleep at 8:30 pm once the DC are in bed and sleeping till 7am. I wake feeling exactly the same as I felt when I collapsed in to bed the night before. I can't get out of bed at weekends, I keep drifting off back to sleep again until early afternoon. My DH just leaves me to rest and takes the DC out.
I can't stand without agonising pain in my muscles. I have to lay down or sit down to give relief to my muscles. I seem to be alright walking short distances, but I can't stand still without my muscles screaming in pain which doesn't stop until I sit or lay down.
Sounds weird but even my eyelid muscles feel heavy and tired.
All bloods have come back normal - thyroid, full blood count, b12, ferritin, vitD, folate, liver, kidneys, coeliac, etc. all normal.
My DC have started asking me if I'm ok on quite a regular basis. DS 14 was stroking my hair the other day whilst I was laying on the sofa and kissed me on the head and looked at me with genuine concern in his eyes. DD 10 cuddled up to me yesterday and wrapped herself around me and said mummy are you feeling unwell again. I don't want to be like this for my DC, it's really upsetting me. Im a mum who's usually bounding around active and busy and taking DC out for lovely days out. Past 2 months I've spent every weekend in bed unable to get up due to the intensity of muscle pains and knocked out with exhaustion.
I bought a plug in electric back massager. I used it last night before bed on my shoulders and upper back to see if it would help relieve the muscle pain. This morning the pain feels much, much worse after using the massager. It feels like I've been kicked hard by someone 10 times in my upper back and shoulders where I used the massager. I've had to take painkillers and it's 10:30am and every time I try to get out of bed the pain and exhaustion forces me back to bed again. Yet I slept for 10 hours deeply last night.
I can't go on like this. GP says bloods are all normal so nothing else we can do.
What is wrong with me?
I'm 50.