I think my comment didn't post, so here's a re-post: Please, Nikki, get your VITAMIN D level checked immediately.  See my profile for more information about vitamin D. I am a bio-engineering student.  I suffered for almost 4 years with increasing pain to the point of collapse last October. I lost my job because I just couldn't function anymore (I was a research assistant in the engineering dept at my university). No-one would believe me that I was really sick. It took 22 doctors to figure out that I had a vitamin D deficiency.  I am finishing up taking classes at a pain clinic, and I can't tell you how many people there didn't know about this and were dumbfounded when they checked their levels and were found to be deficient and are finally getting help after years of chronic pain.  Please, get your level checked, and read my profile as it has important info that will help you. Good luck.

Fibromyalgia is not an inflammatory disease.  That is why anti-inflammatory medication does not work for the condition.  It comes and goes.  Most often stress induced and is a conditiond that, can not be proven as a disease but can be a cluster of dibiltating symptoms.  What medication are you taking?  When pain is experienced by the body, it subsides when the problem is taken care of.  It is a warning to your body.  People with FM have lower pain thresholds or experience pain at a much higher level than normal.  The nerves firing off the "warning" are over stimulated.  When the stimulus is gone and the body continues to experience the pain, it has out lived it's usefulness.  No reason can be found to explain it's continued distress.  Depression is often the first to be blamed.  But which came first.........the pain or the depression?  Sometimes the pain experienced is out of proportion to the amount a normal person would experience, so some doctors think you are exaggerating or worse, faking for drugs.  See a Rheumatolgist who specializes in Fibromyalgia if you want to persue that route.