I have a lot of history being prone to soft tissue injuries. Spraining my ankle almost every week growing up... chronic tendonitis in my wrists from the age of 27 on, etc.
But now it's gotten even worse. I do things like spraining toes and fingers. I've got a rotator cuff injury from carrying my laptop bag and lunch bag on my shoulder into work too many days in a row from Feb 2015 that still hasn't healed properly.
Add in the bonus that I also seem to be especially prone to dislocating bones in my feet or ribs in my back by doing pretty much nothing. I'm blaming those on issues with the connective tissue. I can't convince the doctors to screen me for connective tissue disorders (I really should try to find a new doctor to talk into that)... but don't know if without that being ruled out if it has any relation to ME/CFS.
I did end up on statins for a very short time after going through my second set of exhaustive testing to rule everything else out. They found high cholesterol. Funny enough the statins didn't work at all at lowering my cholesterol. BUT, going into remission dropped it like a stone. Cholesterol is climbing again - and I'm starting to struggle more with my symptoms again and trying as hard as I can to avoid a full flare-up.
But now it's gotten even worse. I do things like spraining toes and fingers. I've got a rotator cuff injury from carrying my laptop bag and lunch bag on my shoulder into work too many days in a row from Feb 2015 that still hasn't healed properly.
Add in the bonus that I also seem to be especially prone to dislocating bones in my feet or ribs in my back by doing pretty much nothing. I'm blaming those on issues with the connective tissue. I can't convince the doctors to screen me for connective tissue disorders (I really should try to find a new doctor to talk into that)... but don't know if without that being ruled out if it has any relation to ME/CFS.
I did end up on statins for a very short time after going through my second set of exhaustive testing to rule everything else out. They found high cholesterol. Funny enough the statins didn't work at all at lowering my cholesterol. BUT, going into remission dropped it like a stone. Cholesterol is climbing again - and I'm starting to struggle more with my symptoms again and trying as hard as I can to avoid a full flare-up.