life help: Is there a disease that makes me so tired. - Help.com

I’ve suffered from chronic tiredness for the past twenty-two years now. At first I thought it might be anaemia, but was told by the doc that I was ‘no more anaemic than most women’ - whatever that meant! I wondered if it was M.E, only to be told (by another doc) that ‘there’s no such thing as M.E’. Hum! I have other symptoms, like chronic pain and weakness in my muscles, but got nowhere with GP’s, whose attitude was ‘if it was anything serious you’d be dead by now’, or words to that effect. After a couple of years of this, I gave up on doctors and tried various things to help myself- diet, vitamins, etc, but just have the feeling that I don’t know what I’m dealing with so how can I know what to do? I haven’t had a single ‘normal’ day in all this time. My energy just deserted me never to return. I know that these kind of symptoms are hard for GP’s to fathom, but I never did get more than the odd two minute consultation, and snippy and irritable comments like ‘oh its just anxiety’. Okay, so it’s not going to kill me, but it has absolutley ruined my life. I’m not able to work, have holidays, have a social life etc, and when my parents were getting on and needed looking after, I was about as much use to them as a chocolate teapot. No-one understands that I’m in contant pain and constantly exhausted (I don’t LOOK ill, after all), and get the impression that most people think I’m just lazy and anti-social. What I’d love to find on one of these sites, is someone who has had the same symptoms and found a solution. Someone who knows exactly what we’re talking about because they’ve been there - and come out the other side.