Thread: It only took 35 years for the right diagnosis!

I am angry, relieved, stunned - mostly angry though. After 35 years of intense pain, false diagnosis, emergency rooms, big needles, prescribed drugs, self-medication, lost jobs, and more pain, pain, pain, I was finally diagnosed correctly. Drumroll please....I have had a dislocated shoulder from a car accident since I was 15. My life would have been so different if someone would have listened to me back then. I was in shock the first hours after the accident, it was a very bad wreck, I didn't realize I was hurt until late that night, by then nobody believed me when I told them. I would have actually been able to keep one of the jobs I have loved and could have had a great career. You can only call in sick with 'I can't move my arm again today' so many times. I wasted months spent in bed knocked out on pain killers and muscle relaxers. My rheumatologist said I may not have acquired fibromyalgia if I had been treated back then. I was relieved when I first found out, now I'm just angry. He said that physical therapy and surgery will help, but there is too much damage and scar tissue built up now to actually correct it. My life has revolved around that stupid pain and it would have been so simple to diagnose and fix it so many years ago. Guess it was just easier to assume the pain was from the arthritis or fibro. It just makes me so sad to know what coulda, shoulda, woulda been if only my shoulder wasn't dictating my options all of my adult life.

Originally Posted by dv8grl

I feel for ya. Medial "professionals" never really want to listen! They just want your money & to fill you up with drugs that will make them MORE MONEY!

ITA! But at least you know the cause of all your pain. Hopefully now that you know what it is you can have something done about it and not be as bad. {{{HUGS******

I am a fibromyalgia sufferer as well. I was dxed 3 years ago.. I have a greaty doctor *nod

I feel your pain

I was just diagnosed with fibro also.

That sux that it took so long to find out what was wrong. Hopefully things will get better for you.

this thread reminded me to refill my amitriptyline *heh