are knots in muscle Fibromyalgia???????

[smokey3550]

my doctor told me I have hasimoto but I have knots in my muscles all over my body neck, inbetween and under shoulder blades, thighs, butt, now matter what I do I can't get rid of them. I have tried massages,aqucpunture,I take magensium everyday and my thyroid medicine. So my question is which is it a systom of Fybro or Hasimoto? And is there anything I can do to loosen my muscle exercise seem to make it worse. And do the knot every go away if keeps me up at night because I ache and my muscle get so tight my hip hurt (exspecailly if I walk alot) sometimes it makes my knee hurt and my neck hurt all the time. I could sure use so help on what to do?????/

[lorena721]

My daughter, 9, has constant pain in her neck, shoulders and knees.  I rub her muscles with tiger balm, and even took her to an alternative medicine doctor who performed accupuncture on her.  Unfortunately, the treatments are too expensive.  I do not trust doctors in general, for reasons too great to enumerate here, so does anyone know of alternative therapies to treat this condition?  I think my daughter may have fibromyalgia, based on a lot of the posts above.  Thanks.

[Firefly234]

For years I had the same symptoms as you (along with other symptoms). I thought they were from a car accident. My doctor said it was Fibro. I didn't like the answers I was getting so I kept looking. Turns out I have very low cortisol (called Adrenal Insufficiency). I'm still undergoing my diagnosis as well as treatment, so I don't know the whole scope of my issues. While the doctors are still working on the fatigue, etc.., the pain is gone. :)

You may want to talk to your doctor and see what s/he thinks about getting a cortisol test (at 8 a.m.) and an ACTH test (it goes with the cortisol test), if your doctors haven't run it before. It's a RARE condition, so I don't want to mislead you or give you false hope. However, I feel it can't hurt to run the test because if you do have it, then it's treatable.

Best of luck!

[aim4it]

I'm on soma too and that has really helped me. I have fibro, mps, raynaud's, cfs, arthritis. Heat, massage and exercise in a heated pool has been great mentally and physically. I'm also on cymbalta, lyrica, remoron, evista.

Thanks for all your posts... they really help.
Amy

[ree4tu274]

SOMA, a muscle relaxer, helps with this type of pain.

[lizzie55]

No one ever mentions diet...probably the most important factor in fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, arthritis and other similar health problems is "what are you eating?" There is a group of foods called the Nightshade Plants which includes potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, including capsicums, cayenne and chili peppers, tobacco. These plants contain a chemical alkaloid called solanine which can trigger pain in some people. Here are a couple of links with more information:
http://nutrition.about.com/od/dietsformedicaldisorders/a/antiinflamfood.htm
http://hubpages.com/hub/nightshades
I am a firm believer in staying away from all nightshades; have done so for years now...this is what helped me get rid of muscular pain, knots in my muscles and extreme discomfort which caused me to have sleepless nights and depression. I am happy to pass on this bit of information because it really works...and I have many friends that now follow this too!!

[smokey3550]

The pain I get in my ribcage is sharp and Constance from anywhere from 2 minutes to 20 minutes. I also have the knot everywhere and if I get stressed they tighten up so much they make my hips knees and shoulder hurt.