Yeah, I read your other thread after finding this one. It was exactly how my affliction started in terms of your symptoms and how you described them, literally to the letter...... I was only 16 years old at the time and I had pulled my back muscles really bad lifting weights incorrectly and that evening my back was really stiff and beyond painful. I went to bed that night, and woke up the next morning exactly how you described.... and I was never the same again. The symptoms progressed into full-blown fibromyalgia. And like you, I had no idea what was happening to me. My friends even noticed something had changed about me. I remember the first time I tried to exercise or play basketball, etc., after the onset of this illness....I literally had the strength, energy, and stamina of a 90-year old, not to mention I would pull a muscle or muscles easily, and I was stiff and sore as hell all over my body afterwards.
I also went through the revolving door of doctors but at the time there was little known about fibromyalgia nor its treatment. I was put on a low-dose tricyclic antidepressant for sleep and that was pretty much it for years. It allowed me to somewhat pose as a human being and simulate a life but other than that it offered nothing in terms of a cure or remission.
GHB has been banned since about 1990, but precursors to it were widely available through the 1990's as OTC sleep aids until they were banned. Some of the precursors are still around because they are used as industrial solvents, and that is what is likely to be found on the streets unless someone with knowledge of chemistry converts it. Recreational users have said the precursors have stronger effects, but that is neither here nor there for why you need it. It's just too bad I never knew about it back then because I would have likely tried it for my sleep disorder. It's a shame an $8 bottle of OTC GHB is now $500. But I am still thankful it is even available as a prescription, because it really has helped people with
this disorder.
How did you end up seeing a neurologist for this disorder?