I’ve had joint aches and pains all my life, and was always told they were growing pains. Last year (when I was 21) I asked my doctor about it and she said I might have joint hypermobility because I could press my right thumb down to my wrist, though my flexibility is limited only to my arms and legs and I’m not double-jointed.

She referred me to a physiotherapy who made an attempt to sort out the pain in my knees because that was easiest and then gave up claiming I didn’t really seem to have joint hyper mobility and referred me to a podietrist.

The podietrist has put insoles in my feet and says I do seem to have hypermobility. Not convinced, I went back to my doctor who referred me to a rheumatologist.

Its now been over a year, I went to the rheumatologist who bent my fingers back (which don;t go that far back and it hurt) pulled at me a bit and declared that I was hypermobile. I am now very frustrated and confused because he wanted to refer me back to a physiotherapist who doesn’t believe I have hypermobility.

Other things that are (only possibly) related are pale skin with spider/thread veins. I have serious back pain though my back is not hypermobile. My eyesight was minus 7 but I got laser treatment (twice) to correct it.

When I got upset about it he suggested I might be depressed, referred me to a psychologist, gave me a leaflet about joint hypermobility and told me to live with it. It feels like all people can see is my flexibility which over-shadows a possibly different underlying cause for my pain. The only other ‘solution’ is painkillers but the only stabbing pain I get is momentary, for example when I push open a door or whwn Irun. I’m not going to take painkillers every day just in case.

Is this really joint hypermobility?

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