Symptoms

Where do you start????? well the main symptom is pain, which appears all over the body. The pain can be felt as a burning, stabbing, aching, even electric shocks pain all over the body. It moves around the body, sometimes the pain lasts minutes, hours or even days. Your skin can feel as though its badly sun burnt, and your muscles can feel so tense its hard to move.

Tiredness is another difficult symptom, waking up feeling as tired as when you went to sleep, is normal with this condition. The lesson that you eventually have to learn is to pace yourself, better to do a little every day, than push yourself one day and need several days to recover. This is easy to say, but not easy to accept, or do when you can see things need doing.

Numbness, tingling or pins and needles are common, making it hard to do things, especially when your fingers and hands are affected.

As it affects the muscles in your body, it has affected my eyes, often they go out of focus making it hard to read or watch TV. I stopped driving two years ago because I no longer felt safe, even though it comes and goes its not worth the risk.

I also have tinnitis, which is worse at night when its quiet, that can make it hard to get to sleep, on top of the pain.

Cramp is another symptom that causes more pain, especially when it keeps you awake.

Memory problems, this is both inconvenient and dangerous at times, especially when cooking. Sometimes you can't remember something so basic as a name, or how to spell a simple word.

Some other symptoms include been sensitive to odours, bright lights and especially noise, morning stiffness, muscle twitching, feeling that my fingers are swollen, sensitive skin, and dizziness.