Wow, all I can say is wow!
To the OP, please go see a good rheumatologist. While everyone means well, threads like this is the reason there is no AAAP (American Association of Amateur Physicians) The responses here vary from fairly reasonable to the bizarre.
Lyme is a reasonable suggestion worth checking out, but only primary Lyme disease would give the diffuse aches you describe within a week or two of being exposed to Borelia burgdorferi (the Lyme spirochete) , in association with a flu-like illness and sometimes erythema chronicum migrans (the bullseye rash). Secondary Lyme (years later) usually affects only a single joint.
To the person who thinks difficulty with diagnosing Lyme disease rests with "misinformed physicians", who is more informed about Lyme than physicians, him with a google account????
Certainly a statin induced myopathy is possible if taking one.
The "iron poster" is referring to hemochromatosis, a genetic disorder of iron metabolism that can cause arthritis among other things. Generally the OP would be aware of a family history of that disease.
A pinched nerve? Please educate me on the neuroanatomy that has a single nerve that innervates both shoulders, hands, legs, knees and feet. I suppose a severe cervical spinal stenosis with impeding cord compression could give that kind of pain, but would be associated with motor and incontinence problems as well, and the OP would be in no condition to be posting on TOTV.
I agree with avoiding steroids unless a diagnosis is made, and you can leave the CoQ10 in the bottle where it belongs
Once again good luck and hope you feel better
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