Am I hypermobile or am I just easily influenced by the algorithm?

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To be fair, instagram keeps feeding me videos about hypermobility and at this point I don't know what are truly signs of the condition and what is not!
I have:

• chronic pain especially hips and feet
• shoulders that tend to slightly come out of joint
• tight joints (but was bendy as a child)
• v flexible hands still
• ibs
• trouble focusing eyes
• sometimes see stars/black out when getting up (not so much now as I am careful. As a child sitting on the floor in assembly and then being told to quickly get up and walk out was always a problem!)
• Hashimoto's
• dizziness

I know nobody here can diagnose me but my question is: do you think it's worth seeing a private dr about this (GP not interested). Can they actually do anything to help anyway? Btw I am in my early fifties and this has got worse since the menopause.

I’d try a physio for your hips/feet/shoulder problems

I was diagnosed with hypermobiity by the physio that was treating me for chronic back ache.

There's not a lot that can be done to treat it but strength training and keeping active definitely helps.

I don’t know huge amounts about this but I am hypermobile and it’s very obvious. Many joint bend back the wrong way, as in what used to be called double jointed. For example If I sit on the floor and stretch my legs out in front of me my heels will come completely off the floor and my legs will be bent upwards. My fingers bend back, my arms bend, I struggle to hold a pen or pencil in the correct way because my fingers bend the wrong way. I just think you’d know if you were?

Physios can assess this, as well as give you recommendations for avoiding injury if you are

I think a lot of people have hypermobile joints without having one of the more serious conditions such as Ehlers-Danlos. I have flexible joints, osteoarthritis and my skin heals very slowly but I don’t have joint subluxations or get dizzy when I stand up.

Me too. I'd just never really thought about it before. Which I realise makes me sound a bit dim. 😁

Thanks for the replies. I'll see if I can find a physio first.

I have all of these symptoms apart from the dizziness. Also had bad SPD in all pregnancies. I have never been officially diagnosed but my son has so I presume its genetic. He can bend his hands back further than me but I am more flexible overall. Constanlty had plantar faciitis, tendonitis, tennis elbow etc ober last few years. Anyway, like you joint pain got really bad during menopause and I'm now paying for all that showing off at parties that I could do the splits both ways, gymnastics and marathon running I used to do.

Main this I've found that helps is using elasticated supports, which i now routinely wear on both knees, elbows when playing padel and one ankle every day (other ankle is fine weirdly). I do tai chi and go to the gym and swim which definitely helps keep it under control.

Its a pain, literally.

I’m hyper mobile and was diagnosed by MSK consultant many years ago. Confirmed by various physios.

More likely if you have a comorbidity such as dyspraxia or other ND?