Fibro diagnosis

I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome first, following an infection. Although it took 7/8 years for doctors to take me seriously. Then a rheumatologist consultant diagnosed fibromyalgia about 15 years after the virus that caused all this but no one could tell me if it was as well as CFS or instead of 🤷🏽‍♀️

Diagnosis was basically testing for everything they thought it could have been and excluding them. Although it took me fighting every step of the way for each test as they said I was just stressed or had health anxiety (neither was true). There is no test for fibromyalgia to confirm it unfortunately. Although there is a pattern of “tender points” that people with fibromyalgia tend to experience pain in - that was the only test for fibro that they gave me, everything else was to exclude other illnesses.

I hope you have a more positive experience than I did. My messages are always open if I can be of any help x

Hi i was diognoised with cronic fategue syndrom and then fibromyalgia in 2022 however going through my history they believe that i have had it for at least 20 years. Unfortunetly fibro is a thing that takes a long time to diognoise they have to rule other things out first. Then either or rheumatologist will diognoise you.
Be prepared to document everything keep a diary and keep going back.if your not happy ask for second opinions and also ask them what next if results come back negative. Look at symptoms as a whole and not individually