Yah, its quite weird Tyno. Usually I get up very lethargic and numb, go outside and stumble around in a half daze and smoke, then I start feeling the stiffness and pain kicking in, then I come in,...
Yes, Panic can become overcome with lots of work. Desensitization. I developed a bad phobia of graveyards once, which is kinda strange since I don't fear dieing in itself, just the potential misery...
What a jerk. Wish I had been there so I could have told them where on my list of top ten worst Doctors they rate. Its expensive, but every time I have to get a new PCP, and I am on some kind of...
I don't know what to say except WOW! Other then that, your Rhuemy might be jumping the gun. I am kinda surprised she didn't take it a bit farther and recommend you find a good street corner to hold...
Hey there Marlee. IMO, its pure Agoraphobia if what is keeping you from going out is a otherwise, uninvolved, anxiety or panic relationship. Anxiety and Panic attacks are kind of like walking around...
The picking up the groceries thing and handing the money to the kid thing to pay for it and hauling to get outside got me. I did that one for months when I was raising my daughter and she was about...
Raining again Jeanie? Well, I am standing under the awning on this one. I don't know about what others are thinking about a possible connection between Fibro and the Polio vaccine, but I don't think...
ADD is a little different. If I was going through school today I would be pegged ADD in a heartbeat. Probably why after I picked up smoking in my teens my ability to focus kept getting better and the...
I am finding since I finally changed my eating pattern and what I eat, I am sleeping deeper, longer, more often, and then awake with some energy level the next day for a longer time. I was treating...
I guess I might be a anomaly. I have this tense, constant stress state going on where my body simply will not totally relax, unless I am asleep. Put me under stress and it does not immediately cause...
Very true K-9 . Google just about anything and you will find horror stories, especially if you Google it as "whatever withdrawal symptoms" and negative comments mixed in with a few this was the...
Hmmm, fully awake. Maybe 1 day in 3 for a couple of hours in the morning and then its all down hill from there. I have two different sleep patterns. One at this point takes drugs to go to sleep. If I...
Ahh, yes, grateing fresh Ginger. Forgot that one. Its been a long time. I have to relearn all of this myself. I broke down this response into two post, because there is the issue of how do I learn to...
Cooking Indian food right is almost a art. But you can learn basic dishes without to much trouble. The main issue is which spices. For instance, lets say I was making the most basic food there is for...
Hopefully, you do not have Fibro. There are short term inflammatory conditions that will hit the joints like that, cause all of those symptoms you listed and you go to your Doctor, get your...
Interesting reading on these different reactions and the idea that Doctors will risk mixing med cocktails that don't do well with each other. I have a bottle of Tramadol my Doctor sold me out of his...
Yah, I figured this would go over like Indian Food in a punch bowl. But I swear to all of you on my mother in laws grave that this really does work. Just as soon as I drag her nagging rear end out of...
I was on 100 milligrams for about a year, and 40 milligrams of Paxil and 4 milligrams of Klonopin. Definitely gained weight about 30 pounds, but my normal weight is 240, so it wasn't to bad, and more...
LOL Long as its hitting about 95 degree right? Acckkkk! I left the s off degrees. Is it the drugs or the slouching? Must Google. Maybe I can find something....
Ahh, hit new topic instead of post reply did we? Its the drugs doing it, the drugs! Please, someone intervene and stop us from causing all of our problems with drugs and obsessive slouching!!!...
If there is a Pool you can use that is heated high enough it won't bother your Fibro, pool walking does a pretty good job of loosening up everything from the ankles up to the hips. I think the...
I know this is going to sound counter intuitive to many of you with digestion problems, since Indian food is highly spiced, But for the last, oh, eight years I have had increasing issues, like...
Very good site. A piece I read on calcification between the ribs hit right on for my lower left rib cage. Two years ago I felt like I was laying on concrete if I laid on left side. Separated two ribs...
Mood disorders and Fibro do overlap for sure. Problem is, when your stuck with County Mental Health, they don't want to address anything except their specialty, mood disorder. It took me two years to...
As far as Doctors go, I use what I can. I have no insurance, pay for my own meds and happened to find a good, understanding GP that was willing to write the scripts that help without thinking I am a...
Yah, I don't know for sure what happened to me. I have had all the pain, overwhelming fatigue and need to crash and burn on most days by 2 pm unless I am working and then I force through the few more...
Interesting point K-9 That is exactly what I used to do also, or head straight to the pool and swim laps and then get a real hot shower. Then I got real sick for months, got all depressed and was...
I really feel for you on this morning stiffness thing. I wake up at 4 am almost on the dot every morning and take my pain and anti anxiety meds at that time and go back to bed. Then when I get up I...
Its a personal choice like everything else on the Nicotine patches, but I did read a long piece published by researches on the possibility of using Nicotene, or creating a drug that is not Nicotene,...
I agree, its a combination of the drugs and the Fibro, and it might even having something to do with circulation to the brain, since I know I can get into my flip me upside down thingamabob for a...
Excess toxins are stored in fat. Burning fat releases them. Excess toxin release causes a number of symptoms, some of which you mentioned. Usually its flu-like symptoms, skin break outs, headaches....
Actualy Patsie, I have suspected the vaccine as the possible cause for years, since I was vaccinated after they changed over to live vaccine. I was also told by the leading Post Polio Doctor in the...
I do have one of those thingamabobs you get into and hang upside down. All I have noticed with it is that it helps to keep one really bad back nerve from pinching off and sending fire pair up my...
No, its just people with Scoliosis have to buy the really good orthotics they only sell on infomercials at 3 a.m. Only those will work for serious issues and only when combined with useing the Jack...
The ear soreness is probably the tight mandible compressing into the joint that is right at the ear. The soreness on the teeth can be grinding and or clenching as mentioned, but there is also a...
I can give you a little help on Benzodiazepene 101 on what the drug is doing. Your brain has what are called Gaba receptors. It is a neurotransmitter your brain produces naturaly and when allot of...
I was really only being 90 percent sarcastic. I used to wear orthotics, and I did stand straighter and I didn't have as much back pain, and I am going to order another set of them and hope they help...
Someone said that the latest half baked theory on Fibro is our posture is bad, so all we have to do is stand straight. All our problems are in our posture. All we have to do is order a good set of...
It works pretty good for me for anxiety, totally kills panic attacks for me and even has a slight anti-depressant effect. I have been on it six years and the dosage has gone super high to be...
Not in your head KitKat. The buldgeing disk can go back into place, but you actually have to do something usually for them to go back in place, like frequent back traction, but I don't know, I am as...
Being that I have Fibromyalgia and allot of back and chest problems, along with the usual depression, anxiety, IBS, something that feels like GERD or esophageal spasms, and blah, blah, blah I am...
Congratulations!!! So you would rather it was Experienced Member huh? I was thinking it could be changed to like "Baby" "Toddler" and so on. But what would that make people with thousands of post....
Well, I am finding out Gabapentin is not a wonder drug. It only really seems to seriously help me when I have stopped moving for the day. Which is actually a blessing if it just accomplishes that. At...
Depending on the issue, the vertebrae can heal, the disk get back into correct position. It just keeps adding more bone to repair the damage. Where once you would have long ligaments attached, the...
I answered more often then not because I never have what I would call a good day. I pretty much go from feeling lousy and force myself to do everything, to a state of wanting the situation to totaly...
Just bring this back up to the top so its on the frontpage for Statgeek. He wanted to see this study....
Tyno That was something I wanted to add and forgot, and sorry I didn't. If a person doesn't want to quit, they should be left alone in my opinion. Besides the fact that its their body and life, your...
They call it Thoracic Outlet Syndrome but its the inlet that is having the problem. They used to do surgery for it allot, but it wasn't very effective in most cases because the nerve entrapment's...
I am with the I smoke for so many reasons now its rediculous. Sick, tired, bored, depressed, pain, anxious, unfocused, and the obvious hooked and its a pattern habit. Before getting sick where I...
So far its having a opposite effect on me. The first day I took it, it definitely knocked me out, but I was taking it with my usual medications, and I was taking a starting dose that was double the...