Introduction

Welcome

Welcome varies 66 to the fibro forum! I am glad you found us and hopefully you will be able to get some great ideas on managing your fibro. You might have some great things to share with us to. Sounds like you been handling your fibro mostly on your own. What are you doing in managing your fibro now?

Looks like you live in cold country like me. The winters are cold and miserable on fibro. I try to be proactive especially in the winter months. I am in the process of planning it out. Lol I have learned it really made a differnce in my fibro last year.

I try to keep my treatment as simple as possible with my health isssues. It seems the more meds the worse I got with fibro. So I found out that the vitamin supplements work very well for me. My treatment for fibro is limit stress, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, rest when I can, eat healthy, good sleep habits, heat, light exercise, remron and subutex for pain.

Just remember your not alone and this is a great place for support. I hope we see you around the forum again.

Hi Varies,

Welcome to the fibromyalgia forum. I am so glad you found us and joined in. I take a lot of vitamin D3... 5000 iu a day. I use to take 2000 but my D was still low so I went up to 5000. I feel it helps.

Some people take Malic Acid/magnesium. And it helps. On the first thread titled "fibro 101" you will find information there. It has a list of symptoms and a lot of other good things. Please read when you get a chance.

Learning that we can't do the things that we use to is hard. Accepting it is even harder and I think we do go through a grieving process for our lives. But we can slow down and still have a good life. It is possible.

I have learned to take life one day at a time from fibromyalgia, and I feel better for it. We can't possibly do anything about the past so we except that. Worrying about the future is no good. It just causes anxiety and that makes things worse all the way around. So today is the day...

I am happy that you are continuing to post. I think you will like it here...

Hugs, Karen...

Hi, Varies.

It sounds like you've always persevered through Fibro, never giving up - good for you! It sure isn't easy, but we do learn to work around it (most of the time.)

I'm sorry that you don't have a good relationship with a doctor, as far as Fibro. That's such a big help. I do have a really good one, but then again, when he retires, I don't know what I'm going to do - so there is that downside, too.

Hope you'll keep posting - glad you found your way here.

Debbie

Yes! Cats these good friends of a fibro sufferer! They lie with you and don`t think you are lazy.:)

Catlover

Thanks again to responses!

There are times that I have to give up, bouncing back can take a week or so though....

Docs have not been helpful, all I can hope for is they don't dismiss it with contempt, a few haven't.

Not a doctor myself, but Desyrel helped put me to sleep when I had solid deadlines for classes and had to get to sleep. Even the tiniest sliver knocked me without a hangover the next day. I have tried nothing for pain or non-sleep symptoms through the decades.

I fully believe that Stoff's book on CFS (updated a few times) applies to Fibro....

Not sure how I could live without a cat around. Had to put a faithful one of 13 years down in July, replaced with a cat of totally different temperament and manipulative games.

It's a decent day today, able to put in a good effort at the office. No snow in Toronto just yet...

I agree about cats! Boy, do I miss my little Tommy  ...he was a great heating pad. He always knew when one of us was sick or had a migraine, and would lie right on our chests. It was fine, even for me, because he weighed almost nothing. And such a strong purrer!

Ah well.

Debbie

Also I will note that I overreact to most drugs that I take (cause? effect?)

Ibuprofin has me spitting up blood after 2 days, most prescriptions send me into brain fog.

So I like to stay drug free.