I notice a lot of folks here have it. My beloved has it and it has really effected her life on sooo many levels....It took 10 years to get it diagnosed....sleeping pills are her only treatment....
You are in fact one of the fortunate few Karrie. Glad to hear that.
We have friends who have been diagnosed and they live on meds.
Hope it stays the way it is now or gets better.
Good luck
N'Ugg:thumbleft:
Karrie
A debilitating and horrible condition, my heart goes out to you.
anyway whats the stuff you don't like taking that you like too much
I have this too, on top of the degenerative disc syndrome. I have a lovely morning cocktail of two antidepressants (one with an anxiety agent), two anti-migraine calcium blockers and a 10mg oxycontin. Throughout the day I take a maximum of 3 additional endocet. Added to that the car wreck at the end of May which brings twice a week physio which includes accupuncture, stretches, deep massage, chiropractic adjustment, and ultrasound. Which we have to be careful with because I have two steel rods in my back from scoliosis surgeries in the 1970's.
Karrie my love, please PLEASE keep excercising as long as your body will take it. Hopefully by the time you are my age you won't have worse symptoms. One thing I don't have is the arthritis though, and Im ever so thankful for that.
Warm water pool excercises are wonderful but you run the risk of overdoing and making it worse.
We're also testing me for Lupus every year because I have several of those symptoms but am negative for the specific Lupus DNA so far...
No wonder Im such a b1tch, eh?
I grew up believing that God doesn't give you more than you can stand--Im sure that was my mom's way of giving me a coping mechanism. But when my son died in 1982 I pretty much tossed that chit out the window!
But it proved true. I withstood everything thrown at me so far and Im not gonna back down from this one.
Fibromyalgia is NOT a diagnosis..... it is a symptom of something much bigger. That's like saying I finally got diagnosed with headaches after several years of having this pain in my head.
Heavy metal toxicity, multiple chemical sensitivity, allergies, dental problems, lyme disease (plus many other things or a combination of them) are some things that can cause the symptom of fibromyalgia. Do some research... the answer's out there.
Fibromyalgia is NOT a diagnosis..... it is a symptom of something much bigger. That's like saying I finally got diagnosed with headaches after several years of having this pain in my head.
Heavy metal toxicity, multiple chemical sensitivity, allergies, dental problems, lyme disease (plus many other things or a combination of them) are some things that can cause the symptom of fibromyalgia. Do some research... the answer's out there.
there are these actual fibro points 18 i believe...They are to do with the nerves connecting the muscles...they get inflamed...they are actual things...when Sandy had a rotator cuff operation(shoulder deal) the doc said her recovery was gonna be a lot longer than a year due to her firbomyalgia...he said when he would do some cutting it would disturb the fibro point.
I forgot who DocDred was when I posted to this thread.... if I remembered that he was DITL the Troll I wouldn't have bothered replying. I doubt he has a wife.... but I suppose his imaginary wife could have fibromyalgia.