In most cases, we associate swollen glands with getting sick—having an acute illnesses such as the flu or the common cold. When your glands puff up, it's a sign that your immune system is working hard to destroy some kind of pathogen in your body, such as a virus or bacteria, pumping out specialized cells that seek out and destroy the things that are attacking you.

It's fairly normal for swollen lymph nodes to ache, even in "healthy, normal" people who are fighting an illness, so they're especially likely to hurt those of us with FMS. That's because of one of the defining characteristics of this illness: our low pain threshold, which is defined as the point at which your brain perceives a sensation as painful. Some people with ME/CFS may have lowered pain thresholds as well.

I heard that too. Swollen glands and waxy ears. I don’t see it on common symptoms list, but have seen it listed on a couple of fibro websites.

I’ve had painful swollen glands on and off for six months. Have had Neck CT and loads of blood work everything checks out fine. I’ve read that swollen nodes can be a symptom of fibromyalgia.

Yes, a lot of the time. Also sore throat,lots of mucus, ear pain, forehead and head pain, shoulder pain, facial pain, abdomen pain and low back pain,eye and tooth pain, jaw pain,
burning/stinging pain all over body, weak arms and legs, arthritis in hands and back, ,migraines with auras, and it goes on and on. Forty years of this and it has gotten worse ea and every year. I tried many different meds and nothing really helped. Doctors were not really interested in helping me. After they saw I had been to someone else earlier on and they could find nothing they too agreed with the findings. ER visits would only get me an
injection that would only knock me out. Each time I would get a new symptom such as vulvar pain and redness, or the extreme head pain, or 8 weeks of diahrea, diid I realize that some of these diseases were overlapping diseases. There are a bunch of them.
I have had to do a lot of reading. Everyday I have pain somewhere in my body. Some days I might get a lot of work done and other days I cannot do a thing. Right now I have a flare up and have not been out of the house for three wks. I only am taking tylenol as needed the last few yrs and zolpidem and an aleve PM at nite.. I know that the
fibro and overlapping stuff will never go away. I am 82 yrs old. Its not fair to have had to suffer all my life. Or for any of you to have to suffer as well. .
This is only my experience and every one is different.

Good luck with everything Annzie.