Yay Kelly! Hooray for you!...
Welcome Mrs. T! This is a great place to have friends. No cleaning the house to have each other over or getting dressed up to go out. Works for me /community/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif Heh, in all...
Ditto the keypad trick. Dagger, you have made my husband a very happy man /community/emoticons/cool.gif The Dodge and the Miata are mine, but the Fiero is his baby. He loves that car....
I'm so sorry for your loss....
This is one time I'm thankful for my husband and I's odd habit of driving aged and/or unusual cars /community/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif Our new car is a VW Golf TDI, so not too terribly common,...
That is so true for me, too. Definitely get checked right away, since like Chutz said, it could be something serious. But keep writing things down so that your doctor can get the big picture....
Awesome! Have a great vacation!...
Philly, if you google "topamax neuropathic pain" or "topiramate neuropathic pain" you'll get quite a few articles, and it appears that quite a few of them have made their way into peer reviewed...
No advice here either, but you have my sympathy. I hope you can get some help from someone soon....
My mother has IBS, and she's found that one of the biggest things she can do to help control her symptoms is drink lots of water. Any day that she doesn't drink enough water, she's in agony. I hope...
I haven't been to a pain clinic, so I can't tell you what to expect, but I did want to stop in and thank you for giving me another idea to work with. At this point I feel like I'm still exploring the...
Nice to have another weapion in the arsenal, so to speak. I haven't tried the Baclofen, but I did find cyclobenzaprine, a different muscle relaxer, helped a lot with my pain. Unfortunately, it also...
I'm really astounded by the things that doctors say sometimes. That definitely sounds like misinformation to me. My aunt had great results on Lyrica for different pain condition, and she had to pay...
I think that's a fabulous goal, though like others have said, it might take you longer to work up to the distance than someone without fibro. I'd say go slowly, but go for it! These days I'm not a...
Thanks so much for all the support, and for the link Lucy! I'm only about 30 minutes away from a decent sized city with a college and a couple of hospitals, but the two that my insurance will pay for...
Thanks everyone for all the support and suggestions <gentle hugs> I really needed to let out some of my frustrations. I'll type more when I'm feeling a little better. I'm calling it an early...
I'm sure many of you can relate to this, but I really need to vent. I'm so incredibly tired of leaving the doctor's office in tears all the time. Every appointment I come with a list of things I want...
Yes, I have nerve issues too. And I drive my doctor bonkers with them. Since I also have pernicious anemia, which can give me numbness in my extremities if my b-12 level gets too low, I keep running...
Most people with fibromyalgia do not go into a deep REM sleep. That is when the body starts to heal itself. Many of us don't dream or doze a lot. We also can have sleep apnea. Your Mom might be in...
I can shave my legs fine, though they get incredibly dry and scaly if I don't put lotion on afterwards. But my bikini line is a nightmare after I shave. Whenever I'm having a flare I also get a mild...
Thanks for the pain log link too, Chutz! I've been looking for something like that. This is defniitely an area I need improvement on, since I have a hard time describing my pain. And I tend to be...
Thanks so much for that pain scale Frances! Like Brent, I find I really have a tendancy to underreport my pain. Generally I find doctors that give me this really vague "0 is no pain and 10 is the...
Congratulations!...
Seems like so many people respond to different drungs in different ways. The Cymbalta made me incredibly sleepy and woke me up in the middle of the night (go figure) and did nothing for my pain....
I'm so sorry to hear you're getting so much negativity from your mother. Hopefully some of the ideas previous posters mentioned will help you out. To answer your question, I work in a vet clinic part...
Snue, I have no advice, just sympathy, because I feel the same. Just completely exhausted all the time. Hopefully something in this thread will help us....
Thanks Sherrine, I'll have to revisit the Malic acid/ Magnesium information....
Oh, an I forgot to mention the vitamin D, until I saw Sherrine's welcome thread. My doctor pretty much recommends it to all his patients, though, since we don't get much sun up here all winter....
Ow LeeAnn! I can sympathize, it's so easy to remember the things that used to be no problem, and think that you can still do them. Even if you can, the next day you pay for it :( Hope you get some...
Yeah Donna, that really does sound like a no-brainer, and big waste of resources to conduct a study like that. Too bad it is so hard for some of us to get up and get going. I went outside and planted...
Lisa has a really great point, I think. Just because fibro creates a lot of really unpleasant symptoms that doesn't mean it precludes other conditions. Definitely worth having someone take a closer...
Thanks SaraBeth and Sherrine! So far I've tried trazodone, Cymbalta, Prozac, cyclobenzaprine, and methocarbamol for the FM. Tried amitryptiline and nortriptylene for migranes when I was younger. All...
Hello everyone! Diagnosed with Fibro about a year and a half ago, but I've been suffering from it for years. Got the "there's nothing wrong with you" speech about a bazillion times en route to a...