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FIBRO? Or more?? Need some thoughts on this……

As I’ve posted before I am currently awaiting blood test results to try to understand what’s happening to me. Please, if you have any input on this I’d love to hear. Chronic full body pain for 24 years. Told FIBRO. Which I believed especially after having my 1st flare immediately after a knee replacement. I just had my second and much more severe flare after leaving my job of 10 years and having an emotional reaction to it. Sounds just like FIBRO right. Well I’m on week 4. The lingering affects are full body stiffness pain. I have swelling and stiffness in my fingers and have been diagnosed with Erythromelalgia which will have an underlying cause diagnosis. THATS what I’m worried about. FIBRO has never affected me this way. The flare caused many new severe symptoms and I don’t know if they will subside or if this is the me. Looking for validation that allllll this could be FIBRO and maybe not anything worse (blood or bone marrow cancers/lupus/Polymelalgia/Myotosis etc.).
THEN. In the condition I’m in and I don’t have ANY follow ups til January. That’s unacceptable!!!!! I feel like I’m going nuts!!!!
Thx in advance!!!!!

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New Diagnosis of FIBRO w/ Erythromelalgia Currently looking for underlying cause

Hi everyone! I am new here. Just diagnosed. I’m understanding that this EM disorder is untreatable and progressive it’s affecting my lower legs ankles and feet. Extremely swollen but no pain. YET. I’ve been in a FIBRO flare for 2 weeks when the EM kicked in. I also understand that it is very rare. I’m hoping to find people here who may have this as well. I have so many questions.
So now I wait for the bloodwork results. Waiting and wondering which devastating condition is causing this. They all seem to be horrible.
Please reach out to me if you have EM or just know about it. Thanks!!!
# Rare Disorders

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Erythromelalgia w/Fibro-Looking for Underlying cause.now

I knew I had FIBRO but was not expecting the diagnosis of EM. DR looking for cause of EM now. I’m waiting on bloodwork results. I gotta say I’m anxious and worried about the results. The list of possible causes are a bit scary.
I’d love to chat with someone who has both these conditions. There’s not a whole lot of info on line that I can find. Some but not much
I started with a FIBRO flare 3 weeks ago and then about a week ago the EM Set in.
I think I just need to talk with someone who may have a similar experience to mine.

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I'm new here!

Hi, my name is ImaginativeOwl671. I'm here because I have been looking at the signs and symptoms of Erythromelalgia and I think I have found what has been my problem for years now. Anyone else here suffer with this?

#MightyTogether

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PEDIATRIC SURVEY

#Erythromelalgia

Boston's Children Hospital need your help in promoting a new project on pediatric erythromelalgia.

THE PEDIATRIC ERYTHROMELALGIA SURVEY

Have your say on the future of research on pediatric erythromelalgia (EM)!

If you are (or used to be):

· A kid or teen with EM;

· A family member of a kid or teen with EM; or

· A healthcare provider for kids or teens with EM

We want to hear from you!

Go to redcap.link/pedempsp , or scan the QR code below with your mobile phone.

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Should I pursue an hEDS diagnosis?

Hi! I am 18, and I have had ME/CFS for 3 years, and Erythromelagia for 1/2? years. I very much suspect hEDS or HSD, as I have a lot of symptoms consistent with connective tissue stuff. My skin is quite stretchy, the skin above my eyelids is quite thin you can see all the veins, I have subluxations, I often can’t get my joints to “sit right” and I have all sorts of “party tricks” with hypermobile knees, shoulders, fingers, wrists, ankles, toes, and my neck range of motion is so insane it looks (AND FEELS) like it’s gonna fall off my shoulders (is that craniocevical instability? Who knows!). There is also, naturally, the fact I’m in fluctuating levels of pain every minute of every day, plus orthostatic intolerance :) My joints have deteriorated in the last couple years, with the subluxations being new. So my question is basically is this smth I should go to the doctor with and be like I think I have this, or am I going to look silly. You guys probably know more about this than my doctors anyway haha. If im gonna be medically gaslit I want to at least be confident I’m right! Thoughts are appreciated on this- Tysm!

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #Erythromelalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome

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Fatigue

Tired all the time nothing works have no energy hard to do anything even basic. Beyond the pain it's biggest issue prevent me from living. What do I do??#Erythromelalgia #Anxiety #chronic illness

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Knee subluxations?

I have ME/CFS, erythromelalgia, and what I strongly suspect is hEDS. With that being said, my knees, mostly the right one, subluxate almost daily, and even when it doesn’t come out I sometimes have to “crack it” for lack of better word, in which I straighten my knee as much as it’ll go and it clicks and feels better, for it to feel right. Often when having my legs bent (I.e. sitting on my knees) is when it subluxates. My question is how rare are knee subluxations actually? When I look it up it only shows patella (kneecaps) subluxations and said that real knee ones are quite rare. I’m uncertain because my kneecap looks normal when I know my knee is out partially. To click it back in, I have to straighten it for it to pop back in, and sometimes push it back and like hyperextend it to get it back in fully.

My question is how do I know if it’s my kneecap or my knee, and does anyone have advice on how I can keep it in the freaking socket. Thank you!! 🫶🫶🫶
#Hypermobility #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Erythromelalgia

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Meltdown🤯

Had a breakdown took it out on everyone there so much pressure I'm overwhelmed. How do you deal??? 😱🤯😫😳🤐😬😶. #Erythromelalgia #Anxiety #Depression

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