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Posted 9/18/2018 9:50 AM (GMT 0)
I had a visit with my general practitioner yesterday as Morin management np suggested he add some additional blood testing. He thinks maybe fibromyalgia due to surgeries but is testing for RAand lupus among other things. He ask what else is going on? Nothing! This consumes me. I did mention to him i have been kicking around leaving work and coming home. I first want to know what i am working with. He is a great listener and will do his best to help me. He added Cymbalta. I have tried this before but couldn’t remember why i had stopped it. So that’s where i am for now.
Posted 9/18/2018 1:30 PM (GMT 0)
Bigecase, I hope you can get some relief with the Cymbalta. A lot of people have success with it. Let's hope that you will be one of those people. You mentioned your dr running labs, I hope he checked your vitamin D & B12 too. Let us know what you find out.
Posted 9/18/2018 11:59 PM (GMT 0)
I recall now why i couldn’t take it. I was so nauseated most of the day. I am going to try to stick with it a few days but i have my doubts.
Posted 9/19/2018 1:00 AM (GMT 0)
If you can't handle it, ask if you can try Lyrica. Just wanted to throw this one out. Are you taking it with something to eat, even if it's some crackers?
Posted 9/19/2018 3:38 AM (GMT 0)
Bigcase:
Medicine can only place a diagnostic name or identifying label on what it knows.

There remains much that medical science does not know or is not aware of.

For any condition that has a diagnostic name, there was a preceding time where people had expressed symptoms for which there was - as yet - no name because there was no ready diagnostic criteria/testing/imaging. Example: Lyme disease; diabetes.

Fibromyalgia is less a specific identifying diagnosis and more a condition named on a basis of exclusion. That is, fibromyalgia is assigned as a possible diagnosis only when other plausible diagnoses are eliminated.

Sometimes the most prudent approach is to address and minimize bothersome symptoms, with less focus on placing a diagnostic name on a health problem that defies a ready name/diagnosis.

Taking time away from work may be just the “medicine” you need the most. Unseen stressors have a cumulative effect on health. Could you job share your position with another person at the company you work for? I job-shared a physical therapy position with another therapist and it was ideal for the both of us. She was married with a 2 year old toddler and I was single and going to graduate school to earn an MBA. Neither of us wanted a 40-hour-a-week position and we both had similar therapeutic methodologies. It was a win-win. Maybe something you could look into to ease your work burdens?

I hope you begin to find signs of relief and an increased sense of well-being,
Karen
Karen
Posted 9/19/2018 10:11 AM (GMT 0)
He has mentioned Fibro over the past years. I have discounted it as i always think of the reasons the different areas are hurting. I guess i am searching for relief with my back and neck pain. Neck is primary reason i am miserable most days. I would just like it to be over. Maybe it never will be.

No such luck on splitting up work. It’s either all or nothing for now.
Posted 9/20/2018 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
Autoimmune tests were clear. That’s great news.
Posted 9/22/2018 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
Bigcase:
I am glad that you have received an “all clear” on suspicion of an auto-immune component to your
cervical and shoulder girdle pain.

But I also understand the confusion and despondency that can accompany lack of a clear diagnosis.

Physicians and medical science know what is known. There remains much unknown and yet to be understood in terms of the human body and how it works.

For me, there came a point where I shifted priorities. FROM trying to identify and place a name on what was ailing my body. TO identifying conventional and holistic treatments and care that contributed (of even a little) to a bettering of my body and soul.

I have little faith in medical care. I have been harmed more than aided. And I have been at the receiving end of more mis-diagnoses and ineffective care than accurate diagnoses and curative treatment. Physicians are vulnerable to perpetuating a line of thinking or diagnosis offered by a prior physician. An inaccurate diagnosis and can easily follow in one’s medical record for perpetuity.

You have had pain for a long enough duration to consider the possibility of
central pain syndrome. That is, pain that persists due to changes in the central nervous system in how pain is processed because of a flood of incoming pain over time that was never alleviated. I have little doubt that a component of my pain profile is centralized pain. Years of pain (from different etiologies) that was not addressed. Think of centralized pain as a door bell that is constantly rung, over and over and over and over again - with no one answering the front door.

I am sorry that you are having to endure the level of pain that you do.
Karen
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