my mom has a lot of those symptoms and after a long time of not knowing what it was, she was diagnosed with scleraderma. She went to the University of Pittsburgh where there is a research center (also TX and WA) and they knew right away what she had. Other docs said carpal tunnel, arthridis, just getting old...sad really. One doc thought she just needed antibotics.

She is now 12 years in remisson.

There is a website for scleraderma...a lot of docs dont know what it is, and what it does to the body...differant symptoms but same disease.