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Ivy have you taken flexerol for it?

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I am currently taking gabapentin 600mg (this is the generic gaba which I am told is quite similar to cymbalta.. another common Fibro and depression med here) for my Migraines along with the flexerol 5-10mgs every night for the Fibro and between the 2 of them and some xanax 1mg (for PTSD) I have been able to sleep better and wake up with much less pain than ever before.. but it hasn't helped the fatigue from either the Fibro or Crohn's at all.. but less pain is ok.. I'll take that!!

When I was first DXed with Fibro several years ago while trying to figure out what was wrong with my abdomen I wound up at a Rheumy (don't even ask what he had to do with Crohn's) and he wanted to put me on Lyrica which is totally different as well.. I declined as I don't do well with most anti-depressants.. they make me very anxious and even more depressed.. ahhh teenage brain at my age.. so he opted to try the flexerol

BTW not one of my docs has ever given me that scale for any of my illnesses.. I think I will present it to them the next time and see what they have to say. I have mentioned to both my reg dr who is also a rheumy and my GI that I never go out except to see my drs but I don't think they take it literally.. they should see my appt book!

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I'm tired and I should be going to bed. Had my first obstructive incident since surgery August almost two years ago and it's put me in a funk. Wonder what I will do next and how bad it will get and how fast. I'm sick with a stupid ear infection of all things just picked up 30 days of Levaquin from my doctor since I seem to need that much of this expensive antibiotic to beat any illness I get lately. I've had 9? iron infusions in the past 6 months, really I've lost count. I have kidney stones pass at the rate of 2 or more each month, have recently added a stone specialist and nephrologist to my long list of doctors. Go for a thyroid ultrasound in 2 weeks as something seems to be off there. Add in an endocrinologist as a new doctor this year. Can't raise my vitamin D level no matter what I do. Take handfulls of vitamins daily. Maybe they will put me in the poor house? I get told that I'm doing really well. Ya think, this disease and researching how to stay well takes up a great deal of my waking hours! I work at staying well, people! Cripes, probably I'd just be dead if I didn't work so hard at just keeping myself well to the extent that most normal people do just by eating decent food each day and nothing else. I'm suffering worse PMS symptoms than ever before and I'm just not happy like I used to be and I can be just plain mean to my husband and kids on lots of days. Hate that. I have no patience anymore and don't know what that is about. Some days I'm tired of fighting, many, maybe most days I'm just plain tired. Anyway, I'm off to bed where I'll probably have night sweats and wake up a bunch of times before doing it all again in 6 hours or so...Night all.

Rough night last night, after crashing on Saturday through doing too much previous week have now caught a cold. Had shivers, headache, cough and ache so much feels like I've been at the gym all day. So this morning drag myself back into work as no way was I going to phone in sick after only being back for 3 weeks and having last week as holiday.

Managed to make it to 3pm and then came home, explained to my boss how rough I felt and that was supposed to be doing my full hours this week but she said no problem would rather I left early and had some rest and come back slower than stay and run myself down again, oh and then she said 'yes you do look quite rough'. Nice, but then at least I know steroids are getting out of my system now as otherwise would still look stupidly healthy!

So came home shivering and could barely get out of car I ached so much, made cup of tea and fell asleep on sofa. Now sat here in 2 layers of thick clothing, hot cup of tea, box of tissues and taken more codeine, early night and probably spend all dsy in bed tomorrow as my normal day off to try and get rid of it. Typical.