Sort of.
The dizziness waxes and wanes. I guess that's just the way it is going to be.
On the other hand, my fibromyalgia has been horribly horrendous lately.
I had a 3-week migraine-a-thon around Christmas where, literally, every single day I had a headache - and most of those days it was at migraine level.
That pain seeped into my neck, then into my shoulder, where it has been living quite uncomfortably.
I went to a few days of physical therapy. After some major snow storms, that kind of fell by the wayside.
I'm chalking all that up to "typical" fibromyalgia.
I've also developed a new agony - gum and jaw pain.
This, too, appears to be a fibromyalgia-related ailment. Not as common as migraines and muscle pain, but fibro patients do complain of this type of pain, so.
As I learn more about fibromyalgia, I have become aware of another common symptom:
Dizziness.
Isn't that interesting?
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 2 or 3 years after the vertigo first invaded my life. However, I remember having fibro symptoms several years before that. In fact, I have found old journal entries where I wrote about debilitating fatigue and body aches which were taking place way, way before the first vertigo attack.
So, which came first?
It is true that many who have chronic dizziness develop fibro or fibro-like symptoms from the body's constant fight to keep balanced and make sense of the mixed messages that it gets from the brain versus the world (very detailed explanation here).
However, I remember being sick before the dizziness. IF this dizziness is from the fibro, that is.
I hate that it is such a mystery.
