Okay, Welcome everyone,
This is where I spill the good and bad but first let's start at the beginning.
I started getting pain in my upper arms, my doctor thought it was "tennis elbow injury". I was given tablets and told to get physio. To do anything to get rid of the pain I took the tablets and went to physio.
I went to physio and took the tablets. Physio worked for about a week and then I needed to go again. The Doctor said I needed to take time off work for the injury to heal properly. I took two weeks off work, got physio twice a week, felt better, and went back to work. It started again.
I was working in Dublin where it was too expensive to get physio and since I went home to Limerick every two weeks I decided to wait till I get home to have physio. I went back to the doctor and he said I needed more than two weeks off and more physio. I took 5-6 weeks off work where I have physio twice one week and once the other week. I felt better after my time off but once I went back to work It all started up again.
I went back to physio every two weeks. This went on for about a year and a half. I had enough, I wanted answers. Once I got the chance I went back to my Doctor and said I've had enough and I want answers. There was no way it was "tennis elbow injury" still, it had to be something else. Thankfully he agreed and made an appointment with a rheumatologist.
I had health insurance at the time so I got an appointment quickly. To see a private doctor is still expensive but I wanted answers. When I went to see him, he barely touched me, got me to move my legs up and to the left and up and to the right, then he asked me to sit down. He said I had Fibromyalgia and there's no cure. I had put on some weight and he said I needed to lose the weight and said to do a high-intensity workout and go swimming.
I was shocked, he had a matter-of-fact attitude with no bedside manner. I was perplexed as to how I was going to do the high-intensity workout, I could barely get up when I bend down to get anything lower than my mid-section. So to do a high-intensive workout was not going to happen. I decided to ask the experts in the gym as to what I should do. The lady was lovely and very helpful and said she would not recommend me to do a high-intensive workout with fibromyalgia and said to go swimming instead. I was happy with that and went swimming almost daily on the way home from work. By this time I had moved back to limerick and got another job.
When I went back to the specialist he was not happy I was not doing the high-intensive workout and practically scolded me for not doing what he had said. He would not listen that I was not able to do the workout and proceeded to show me how he does squats when he was finished work and I was to do it the same way and he left it at that.
I left his office paid the receptionist and walked out pissed off as I knew I would get the same the next time I went back to him. I went to my doctor and said I am not going back to him ever again and to find me someone who understands what it is I have. In fairness to him, he did and about a month later I had another appointment with another rheumatologist.