Dealing with Chronic Joint Pain: My Struggle with Doctors

Yeah ive had this issue too and this pain and fatigue started while I was at a "healthy" adverage weight and it continued like that similarly through me both being underweight and overweight. At max I've been 80ish pounds overweight although my weight settles around 50ish over naturally, abled people at my size DO NOT feel this way and with conditions like this they always suggest loosing weight first, but that clearly isn't the route of the issue even if it helps. Even if it helped significantly that's still not the route of the issue and since whatever the issue is causes pain when active prescribing weight loss before treating your pain in any way is just going to end up unnecessarily like torture. If you consider dieting with no exercise that ends up hurting you too because now not only does it decrease what energy you already have it's also going to decrease whatever tolerances you have to the pain. It's backwards and ineffective. I've also noticed it happens much less, although still quite a bit, since I transitioned and doctors see me as Some Guy so theres that unpleasant aspect of it 😒

Yea i know it stinks. That's always the first. Yea aging has definitely been a factor. Fibromyalgia runs in my family and it makes me nervous because I'm at the age when everyone in my family has been diagnosed.

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