Im 17 years old, advice please!

I started off with ibs at first a year ago and then fibromyalgia soon followed. My mum also suffers and has since she was also 17. I have an awful doctor who says because my mum has it that I'm making the whole thing up, which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'm also suffering from depression and by being told that I'm lying by doctors I'm struggling to stay positive. Because I haven't been diagnosed I'm suffering without any form of medication. Your support would be highly appreciated.

Thankyou for your reply. My mum does come with me and she's trying to get me a new doctor but at the doctors I go to she is the only one who specialises in this illness. My mum has just been to a rheumatologist and now been diagnosed with it which should hopefully help then to believe that I have it. The other problem I have also is that tablets don't really have an effect on me and never have done, I was took into a&e a couple of months ago and the only thing that worked was morphine. Im having an endoscopy also because of my ibs but this will take months and my doctor is fully booked for atleast another month which is another problem.

It's great to talk to people who understand what im going through. Even though my mum is a great help and does keep me going through all this pain, people like us in the uk don't have many doctors that believe in fibro like they do in the us.

Thankyou again :)

I do not have fibromyalgia but I feel for those of you who do, especially because I've come to find there may be a very simple cure right under your doctors' noses: magnesium (Mg). Am I right in my understanding that fibromyalgia always involves overactive substance P (SP) production (a pain signal peptide)? Mg reduces SP levels and it also decreases oxidative damage throughout the body (particularly that involving peroxynitrite nitrosation). Mg treats many, many diseases/conditions, many of which attend fibromyalgia. Here is an incomplete list of those diseases/conditions which I've read about being aggravated--if not caused--by low Mg: ADD, aging, anger/aggression, all addiction (especially alcoholism), allergies, ALS, Alzheimer's, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, autism, bipolar disorder, bruxism (and all excessive muscle clenching), cancer, carpel tunnel, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, constipation, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, eclampsia, fibromyalgia, hearing loss, heart disease, hypertension, impatience, inflammation (of all sorts), insomnia, kidney stones, metabolic syndrome (and perhaps all obesity), migraine headache, mitral valve prolapse, menopause, multiple sclerosis, muscle pain, nail biting, OCD, osteoporosis, pain (all sorts), peripheral vascular disease, PMS, many psychiatric disorders, PTSD, sexual dysfunction (male and female), SIDS, sickle cell disorder, sleep disturbance, stress, stuttering, tinnitus, TMJ, and toxic shock. That Mg is not one of the first things doctors prescribe is just astounding. It really seems like it must be the triumph of pharmaceutical companies over the wellbeing of the entire human population.

Talk to  your parents and your doctor about possibly taking malic acid/magensium supplements.  These have helped me with pain and fatigue.  Malic acid is found in apples but you would have to eat a bushel to get the amount you need to help with pain...hence the supplements. 

 

Vitamin D3 is important, too.  Many are deficient in this vitamin and a deficiency can cause pain and fatigue.  A simple blood test can determine if you are deficient in this.

 

Be sure to check out Fibro 101...the first thread on the forum.  There are links to all sorts of good info about fibro and you will learn a lot there.  There are links about malic acid/magnesium supplements and vitamin D3 there.  The links tell you how these work in your body so you might want to read that.

 

I hope you are feeling better.

 

Sherrine

MC Mg said...
I do not have fibromyalgia but I feel for those of you who do, especially because I've come to find there may be a very simple cure right under your doctors' noses: magnesium (Mg).

You forgot to mention that, for those of us who have IBS, Mg triggers painful cramping and diarrhea.

Thanks for contributing, but if there was a cure as simple as what you're suggesting, we all would have pounced on it years ago.

I've been accused of being anorexic almost all my life. I have a super fast metabolism, well not anymore! lol It's finally slowing down at the age of 41! :) But I was lucky if I was 100lbs soaking wet in my younger years. I just assured the docs that YES I eat! A lot! They tested my thyroid numerous times and finally that assured them.

Doctors don't think that someone can be sick and not look sick. I have been struggling with this for a great number of years. So I can totally relate!