Many symptoms - feel awful 24/7 - please help

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24 year old male. These symptoms have been going on for 4 years.

General symptoms:
-My skin is "painful" to touch everywhere. The feel of my shirt rubbing on my skin is very discomforting.
-Hard to describe, but feels like I constantly have a low-grade fever even though my temp. is always normal. I get the burning eyes symptoms and I always feel irritable.
-My eyes are messed up - I see millions of microscopic "dots?" Like static. Only they are things swimming around. They are not floaters, which move in the same direction you turn your head. These are millions of tiny bacteria like jerks that move independently.
-I can voluntarily make my muscles lock up - especially my calves and biceps - from hyperflexion.
-Constant feeling of either very light nausea - or feels like I need to eat even though I don't. This gets worse when I try to lay down.
-Ringing in ears.
-Memory is shot. Can't remember simple things. Used to have the best memory. Also, now it seems like i have a lot of trouble learning and retaining information (used to be a Dean's list student).

Routine blood tests always come back normal. MRI in 2008 showed no brain problems. I have had thyroid hormone tested and no abnormalities.

I know these are vague, and its a shot in the dark, but if you have heard of anything similar, please help! I just want to feel normal again.
 
jaga1a2: Some of these symptoms sound like fibromyalgia. That's the pain you feel when you're touched. Have you been checked for diabetes?

The ringing in the ears is called tinnitus. Do you listen to loud music with a headset or plugs?

Get a vitamin test done to see if you've got sufficient vitamins. B vitamins help with the nervous system. You could probably benefit from some. Have you ever seen an endocrinologist?

Do you eat a balanced diet with good nutrition?

It does sound complicated but keep trying to find some answers.
 
My GP's initial thought was fibromyalgia, so he put me on cymbalta. However, that had no positive effect because I do not suffer from FM. The skin pain was the only symptom.

"Fibromyalgia Tender Points
All fibromyalgia sufferers also feel pain in various tender points around their bodies. In fact, in order to be diagnosed with fibromyalgia, you must experience pain in at least 11 of 18 specific tender points. Tender points tend to be located at areas in the body where muscles and tendons join together. In particular, fibromyalgia sufferers are apt to feel neck pain, shoulder pain, lower back pack and pain in the waist, ribs, buttocks, and knees."

I don't suffer any muscle or joint pain. However, reading through the rest of the FM symptoms - it really does resemble what I suffer from - hopefully we are on the right track!
 
I have Fibromyalgia and many of your symptoms some alot like mine. Except you don't have all of my pain so consider yourself lucky. Just a few months ago my skin started hurting, every thing I tried to wear felt so uncomfortable. I ended up wearing tube tops for awhile there. Thank goodness it's summer time.

The eye thing, I was wondering about that myself I sometimes see a dark shadow type thing just the side of my vision and when I turn my head to see what it is there is nothing there. And at night my eye with sometime burn and start to tear up.

And the fever thing, me too. My husband thinks I'm weird because I take my temperature a lot, it always normal but I feel like it's now.

I go to a chronic pain psychologist and I was just telling him today how terrible my memory has become. He told me that when you're in pain it take a lot of your brain's concentration to handle that and also let you continue to move forward doing the things you usually do. I find trying to handle my pain on a daily basis is very tiring. But also I have no short term memory. It's very scary.

I hope you find the help you need. If you need to talk let me know. I'll be here for you.
 
Thanks Grady.

It's very frustrating and, I agree, very scary.

I am going to the Cleveland Clinic tomorrow to hopefully get some answers.

Hang in there.
 
Sorry you are having so much trouble getting diagosed.
Like some of the others said, it sounds like fibromyalgia which can be hard to diagnose.
Another condition that is similar to FM is polymyalgia rheumatica. That will only sometimes show up in the sed rate of a blood test.
Keep trying to get a diagnosis. Good luck to you.
 
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