Wow! You sound just like me!! I always find that amazing when I read another Fibromites symptoms or like when I looked up the symptoms for the first time I was like OMG I'm not crazy. And all these things that my hubby called weird quirks are not so weird anymore they have a name to them now, Fibro. I have always had what my mom terms as a weak back. I would get a spasm in my back and drop to the floor, still do sometimes. And I could never exercise it always made me achier.
I am so with you on the walking and standing to long and always low energy. My mom use to say you are just lazy. And I am forever asking my hubby midsentence "What was I just saying?" or I can't find the word to finish a sentence, brain farts I call them. I always have a mild sore throat and semi-stuffy nose. I am oversensitive to smell, I am always saying in disbelief "Can't anyone else smell that?". The noises aren't to bad unless I have a headache. I get the skin creepy crawlies. And if I bang a part of my body on something I swear I am severly injured b/c it hurts SO bad.
And the Leg thing I was told that I don't have restless leg syndrome unless I am kicking at night. As far as I know I don't b/c hubby never said anything and I haven't awakened myself. But during the day I can't keep my leg still, I am constantly swinging or somehow moving my leg and my hubby will reach over when we are in public and put his hand on my leg so I know I am doing it. It is like a habit now I don't realize I am doing it and he said it makes look nervous or jittery. i get leg cramps really bad at night I think b/c of all the activity my legs get during the day.
Have you found that you have had these symptoms since childhood? I used to get unbearable knee pain when I was a pre-teen and cry hysterically. My mom told me it was growing pains. I got headaches badly as a child and although I didn't have IBS as a child I always had difficulty going poo it never really came out easy. Now it comes out to easy most of the time.:p
Sorry to ramble but it is so cool when someone else has the same symptoms so I can then tell people it is not just me.
Christie
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~Hoping and Praying for Sleep!~