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Posted 9/18/2013 1:00 AM (GMT 0)
This something I now wish I had remembered, years ago a doctor told me always be careful about your pain and know if something new started.
I put the pain in my back and hips down to fibro and left it at that for a long time.
But a simple xray showed me how wrong I was, walking had become almost imposible walking up stairs brought on tears it hurt so bad. Sitting ina car was soooo painful. In fact it was sacroiliitis and Facet arthrosis in tne L4/5 and L5/S1
Now with much needed pain relief I can enjoy walking again.
I had put up with so much saying it was just more fibro pain.

Kathy
Posted 9/18/2013 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
You are so right on knowing what is new pain. I having been going through SOB and chest pain lately, thinking it was just part of fibro and over weight. It usually happens going up any incline. Now I know it was actually my heart. Tomorrow is when I go see the heart surgeon.
Posted 9/18/2013 3:24 AM (GMT 0)
Kathy - great reminder, thank you for that. The L4/5 area is where my disc ruptured, too...kind of a hard area to work around, isn't it? There was no comfortable position - - that pain is horrendous. I'm so glad you are being adequately treated now.

Angel - I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Hope everything goes well at the heart surgeon's. Let us know!

Hugs, Debbie
Posted 9/18/2013 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
My L5-S1 is gone and L4 doesn't look too good either. It's a painful spot to try doing things with.
Posted 9/19/2013 12:03 AM (GMT 0)
Funny, I was just saying to someone that I would never know the difference of Fibro symptoms or something else because the Fibro is so weird that I had decided to ignore anything that came along and just put it down to this. These days if I get a paper cut it feels so intense so I don't trust my feelings on anything. Geez!
Posted 9/19/2013 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah, dechaine, isn't that weird?! A paper cut, or fingertip that splits from furnace-dry air in the Winter, can wake me up at night if I forget to cover it with a bandaid.

Nobody told me there'd be days like this!!

Debbie
Posted 9/19/2013 3:37 AM (GMT 0)
I stubbed the ball of my foot while walking the other day and it cause my knee to be so painful for several days. I didn't even fall or stumble but it felt like I bang my knee on the pavement.
Posted 9/19/2013 4:25 AM (GMT 0)
shakehead   Good grief, Joy! shakehead

Fibro does make us more sensitive to all kinds of pain, and that makes it so hard to know when it's that, or something else.  Sometimes it feels like a full-time job, sorting it all out!

Debbie

Posted 9/19/2013 6:23 AM (GMT 0)
Keeping a symptom diary can help a lot. If I get anything thats not in the norm for me, I let my dr know about it.
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