[Nan50]

I have fibromyalgia and depression which are severe enough that I have just applied for Social Security Disability. After a week of meeting with doctors and therapists to see if they were all willing to support the application and another week of filling out the forms (which I think were designed to discourage anyone who isn't feeling well) and all the emotional stress involved in the decision, I wasn't surprised that I was exhausted and aching this week.

However, I was surprised to find that I was running a low fever (~100) all week with no symptoms of a cold or stomach virus. That isn't supposed to happen with fibro, but has happened to me before after periods of prolonged stress, now that I think about it. Anyone else out there with fibro who gets unexplained fevers from time to time?

Thanks,

Nan

[Perna]

Sounds like you could technically have CFS instead of Fibro?

"Both Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia often seem to begin after an infection or a severe shock (physical or emotional), and the symptoms are very similar. The only obvious difference seems to be that for some people the fatigue element is the most dominant while for others the muscular pain symptoms are greatest. In other words for many people the diagnosis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are interchangeable terms, although there are certain symptoms (fever, swollen glands for example) which are found in a higher percentage of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients than those with Fibromyalgia, which sometimes make such a comparison less precise."

From: http://www.immunesupport.com/fibromy...erstanding.htm

[Nan50]

Hi Perna,

Thanks for the great link! Looks like a usefull site.

I'm one of those who have more fatigue than pain, but I do have at least 15 of the fibro tender points and don't have swollen glands or sore throats, so the doctor decided that fibro is the easier dx to defend. Now that I've filed for SS Disability, the dx is graven in stone.

Nan