DEAR DR. GOTT: I have been told I have fibromyalgia. From the information I have found, it seems like this is a diagnosis when it isn’t known what is wrong. When I wake in the morning, I feel like I have been in an auto accident. I hurt from top to bottom. After I get moving, it gets a little better, but the muscles mostly in my legs, arms and hands hurt all the time. I have lots of headaches and sadness, and I just feel tired.

I was put on Lyrica, and after about two weeks I did have a few better days, but now not so many.

My dad and two of his sisters had Huntington’s disease. Not a lot is known about Huntington’s, and most doctors have never heard of it. I am 53. My father passed away at the age of 50, and both his sisters passed away in their late 60s to early 70s.
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