Team Leader answers:

Your experience so far sounds similar to mine, though it doesn’t sound like you have been diagnosed with FM yet and I would urge you not to self-diagnose. Though it is possible that you have FM there are a number of conditions that are frequently confused with FM. Though I’ll be honest with you to me it does sounds like FM.

My pain treatment was as follows:
At the beginning when the pain was completely debilitating I was prescribed narcotics to get through daily life. Narcotics are not considered a long term treatment however. I had to take them for almost 8 months and that whole period of time is a blurr.
After my diagnosis was complete I was prescribed amitryptaline which is an anti-depressant prescribed almost exclusively for pain and sleep control now. It has worked wonders on both my sleep and pain even on the low dose of 12 mg/day. Some people are taking 100, 200 even 300mgs a day.

If you are diagnosed with FM know that the condition is completely benign, it has been cured (though in a very small percentage of sufferers) and with proper life style choices and potentially medication (depending on your personal preference) like can return to something like normal.

Good luck