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Experiencing severe joint/muscle aches for 3 months

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Around three months ago I started to notice some dull and sometimes sharp aching in my body mainly in the joints in my fingers and feet and a little less commonly in my elbows and knees and wrist/ankle I thought nothing of it and thought I was just getting sick and it would probably pass after a couple of days which it didn't it then progressed into the joints in my toes and I started finding it hard on bad days to walk as my toes would feel extremely sore to walk on and I was finding it extremely difficult to get any sleep at night as when im lying down I have nothing to think about apart from the constant aching in my entire body..

I put off going to the doctor originally for a quiet a while as I only like going to the doctor when I feel it is absolutely needed and I thought that if I just wait it out it would go away I waited quiet a while and after a month of suffering I decided it was definietly not going away so I go to the doctor and the doctor tells me to get a few blood tests from what I recall one of them was for lupis and one of them was for rheumatic factor one for CRP and the other I can not remember

a week or so later after the results came back I went back and they all came back negative but the CRP showed a slight bit of inflammation in my body and told me that he wanted me to take the test again because he wants to see if the inflammation goes down or up in the following test

he also told me to take some 400mg of ibuprofen a few times a day for the pain (the ibuprofen did absolutely nothing lol)

After that doctor visit I didn't feel like getting the second CRP blood test done and didnt 

fast foward about 6 weeks and I woke up one morning feeling extremely bad very dizzy couldnt really move and felt very fatigued had a sore throat etc but the dizzyness and fatigue was quiet severe so I decided to go to the hosptial 

at the hospital they ren a couple blood tests and after a few hours they found I had glandular fever during my time there I discussed if that could be what was causing my body aches and they recommended I went back to get the blood test done and to sort it out with my doctor

When I got home that following day I felt a lot better and had no symptoms of glandular fever after that day felt 100% and even noticed that my body aches for the first time in two and a half months were very mild ( I would have some days where it was very mild but it wasnt very often ) after about 5 days I found some tramadol in my house a bunch of Sustained release and some normal tramadol

I decided to take some tramadol and see if it would make my body aches disapear entirely and while it did work the tramadol affected me a fair bit and I was very dazed and out of it for the first few days after a few days I felt a little more normal I was taking roughly 300mg every 6 hours for a week

Anyway its been a week or so since I stopped taking tramadol and the body aches came back roughly 12 hours after I ren out of the tramadol and since they I have suddenly became really depressed and I just feel that these body aches are never going to end I went to go get the blood test done today but the pathology closes at midday on saturday and I got there just after it closes so im going to have to wait a couple days now and then a few more days for the results to come back before I finally return to my doctor and try and get something to help me sleep and hopefully sort out this pain

I was wondering if glandular fever can cause aching to this extent considering I had the aches for 2 months before I had any symptoms of glandular fever and was confirmed to have it

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    Got the bloodtest done on friday that my doctor wanted me to do again 6 weeks ago finally will be following up with him for the results on wednesday would like to think that he could give me some closure as to what exactly is wrong with me but I doubt that will be happening last few days have been pretty rough the joints in my left foots toes have been pretty sore to walk on and I havent gotten much sleep
    • craig07920
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      Good luck with the blood tests Joel, hoping it can help bring some clarity and understanding, it's really tough I know because often blood tests show fine after a while and it doesn't seem to make sense why you still feel so unwell - I think that is definitely normal so take it as encouraging if it shows up like that, and of course it's always good to have these things monitored.

      Hoping that the joint and toe pain settles down, that really sounds awful. I know I went through a number of weeks with joint and muscle pain, some weird bruising and things, and that actually turned out to be the start of a much greater recovery. Just hoping that this can be the same for you Joel, hang in there and still thinking of you and believing in a complete recovery for you.

      Take care

      Craig

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    So I got my results back for the CRP test and as I assumed it came back normal just like the last time he ended up prescribing me 500mg naproxen that I'm supposed to take twice a day which hasn't seemed to work at all and also gave me a referral to a rheumatologist which I will be seeing on Monday so hopefully now I will be able to get some answers from the rheumatologist

  • rosanna27156
    rosanna27156 Guest

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    I get wrist, arms, ankle, back, shoulder, knee and leg pain do u get all these? And horrific pelvic snd rib painp! Xxx
    • craig07920
      craig07920 rosanna27156

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      I had a horrible phase during the virus Rosanna where I had terrible joint pain in my knees, arms, etc just like you by the sounds of it. I couldn't work out what was going on, I came out in some light bruising also. Felt like my body was being beaten up.

      After this relapse my body started to recover greater - I look back and think that phase was the trigger for recovery - I know this can be very common with post viral to have these kind of symptoms. I'm really hoping this can be the trigger that starts to help your body to recovery - just get through each day as best you can at the moment and try not to worry (so hard I know). I believe God will bring healing to you Rosanna.

      Craig

  • danae55014
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    Hey Joel! I know this was a while ago, but did anything come of seeing the rheumatologist? And we’re you able to come to a conclusion as to what the root cause of the pain was? I have been having very similar symptoms and am trying to figure out if what I’m experiencing is normal for glandular fever or whether it’s something else causing the joint pain. No one I know who has had glandular fever seems to have experienced this type of joint pain/shooting pains. Thank you for sharing your experience and I hope you have fully recovered from it :-) Cheers! 
    • craig07920
      craig07920 danae55014

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      Hi Danae,

      I seen a rheumatologist after about 9 months because I started getting awful joint pains in my arms and legs, weird kind of brusing too - they couldn't find anything wrong and it really was just part of the virus I see now looking back. Actually when I got this lapse, it was a few weeks afterwards that things settled down and actually started to make real progress and see full recovery - maybe this is what can happen in the latter stages of the virus and it means that your body is going to start kicking it out for good after this, really hoping so. Hang in there.

      Craig

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