Hiya
I was diagnosed with ME in '05 and I've been out of work and college ever since. I'm with you on the joint pain, my hips wake me up in the night, they click whenever I stand up, and I'm getting the usual aches and pains I get when I'm a little bit too tired. I'm still sleeping about 12 hours per night but I think that's because I have to get up so often to pee!
The brain fog is terrible too, I sometimes have to stop, snap myself out of it and ask OH what we were talking about. He's brilliant though, he takes it all in his stride.
Apart from that everything is pretty usual. First tri was a nightmare but I'm just feeling the benefits now of eating real food and sleeping better. I was practically in bed all day and just 5 mins walk to the doctors was too much for me.
I'm really quite scared of how I'm going to be when LO arrives, how I'm going to cope with the sleepless nights. My heart goes out to you with triplets summerlily!
DH was the one who pointed out something was wrong with me - every day after college I'd get home and fall asleep in the bath for a few hours. I thought that was normal... For years I kept getting fobbed off from the doctors saying, "you're anaemic - go home!". It was only when I moved in with DH(then bf) and changed doctors that they did picked up on something being wrong. I had all kinds of blood tests.
That sounds just like me! For years and years, since I was about 13, I was "just anaemic" (never did any blood tests) or "just going through the usual teenage growing pains". Was I bollocks. My attendance at school was 50% in my last year and all my teachers disliked me because I was a "slacker", yet I did OK in my exams. Nobody believed me that I was just too unwell and tired.
I finally took myself off to a different doctor and demanded something be done when I dragged myself home from a tiny 4 hour shift at work, collapsed onto the sofa and cried because I was literally too tired to move.