I'm done with doctors! fibromyalgia pain?

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i am having really bad back problems at night but I guess I didn't make that clear enough.

I went to the doctor to hopefully get some relief from chest pain I've had over a year that wont go away. (nothing)
And back pain that started about 3 weeks ago.

I have a chest x-ray and they say well "there's nothing we can see" and then the doctors like "well that's about it"
I don't know if he said that but I was angry at this point because I have had so many doctors appointments trying to resolve this and nothing ever gets resolved I just get treated like an idiot that is making up symptoms or something. So then he see's that I am angered and writed me a prescription for naproxen a glorified aspirin. I misunderstood him and thought he said something else so I said sure I'll try that see if it helps. I've already tried naproxin and it doesn't help a bit. He prescribed this despite me telling him aspirin, tylenol, and ibuprofin (all about the same thing) do not help.

Maybe this is a fybromyalgia or something similar.

I dont know what to do and I hate to go to doctors because I am bad at speaking to people so I think I am not describing the symptoms/pain well enough.

What has your experience been? Are there some specialists who an help? GP's don't seem to want to help me.

What kind of pain are you actually experiencing?

Fibromyalgia is specifically a widespread dull ache, throughout a lot of your body, plus some scattered tender point where it doesn't really hurt until you press on it (when you press my tender points they hurt more than a broken bone, but I don't know if they're that painful for everyone).

If you *do* have fibromyalgia, analgesics are not a good long-term solution, because analgesics are bad for you and the pain will just come back anyway.

The current theory of fibromyalgia is essentially that we're feeling our cells tearing and dying. Fun, right? And the more you have on your plate, whether you like what's on your plate or not, the more the pain gets pushed into or consciousness. So you need to do a lot of work trying to manage your stress (I don't mean specifically psychologically, just in general) and keep up a sustainable level of activity you can maintain on both good and bad days (so that you don't aggravate yourself on good days, as people with pain disorders tend to do). The idea is that by reducing your load you reduce the amount of things pushing the pain up.