In the last few days I have had some additions to my symptom list. I now have a deep ache (not just at joints) & a soreness when I touch certain spots, especially upper arms and shoulders. My fingers feel stiff and achey too. I had a RA test previously that was neg.

I am starting to wonder about this fine line of widespread neuro pain and Fibro pain which is also bodywide by definition. I wonder though, why this would come a year and a half after neuro pain and sensations (did PN cause fibromyalgia), or is it actually one in the same?

So many questions, so little answers.

Feel very fatiqued lately too..........

Some docs say Fibro doesn't exist-its a catch-all term used when there are no other explanations. Sufferers are of a different opinion, though. there is a fibro forum/BB here on neurotalk. I'd check that out.

Yeah, tow of my doctors (arthritis doctor and pain management doctor0 told me I had fibromyalgias before I had the nerve conduction study. Now, I guess I have both. I personally think they are one in the same, although some doctors don't believe in fibromyalgia. They certainly seem to treat it the same, don't they.

I have diagnosis of PN. I have never had one of those nerve conductions tests. After some months of PN I am starting to have sore spots on my body that feel like bruises. Is that a sign of fibromyalgia? The same drug I am on, gabapentin, is used to treat both.

I have been diagnosed with both... the FMS for a long time. Parts of my body feel bruised - really most of the time. I am prescribed Savella for the FMS. I am unable to tolerate Neurontin and Lyrica.

I think it should be called Fibroneuralgia, for those of us with widespread neuro pain with no loss of sensation and no dx.

It makes sence to me, and I bet one day there will be a name for this mystery neuro pain without loss or reason found.

Fibromyalgia was unnamed for many years too, only since the 70's was it named and treated as a "real illness."