I am one day into realising what has plagued me for the past six years. I have been to the docotors so may times I can't remember, and left feeling like a fraud. Had x-rays, blood tests...told it was just stress and depression. I always new there was going to be a reason for the extreme pain. The one thing that kept me going was that after six years I was still alive so I new it wasn't terminal. Although some days I thought it was and other days I wished it was. Apart from the pains in my back and shoulders, the absolute deadening feeling of tiredness, dizzyness, shortness of breath, foreboding feeling that something tragic is about to occur, crying and helpless.....all that. The worst I feel is the ( now I now is called) brain fog. Getting into a conversation and forgetting simple words, being at work and trying to relay to my boss or collegues day to day things and feeling dumbstruck. To the point that talking was a huge effort. As I say I have only just found this website, through desparation and resorting to entering my list of symptoms onto the internet. So far Candida seems to be the key but closley followed by fibromyalgia so don't take my list of symtoms as gospel. I am just hoping that I have found some answers and can soon be looking at living a full and normal life. Hope this has helped you. x