for me my mom has it but hers was caused by a stress injury so i don't think mine was hereditory as nobody else in the family that we know of seems to have it. MY husbands x wife used the kids as a...
hi frustrated i'm exactley where you are. i just went to a rheumy for the first time and even though my md has been giving me 50,000iu's of vit d once a week along with taking 2 vit d with calcium a...
toughenough I don't know if you have tried this or if you can even take this but my mom has fibro and she has neropathy along with having tumors on the bottom of her feet. She had the one on her...
tricia, as everyone has said you need the pain medicine just to make it through the days most days but you may find that with the proper meds you may not need as much of the pain meds. also you...
I am on 90 mg and recently had dr. take me down to 60 because I didn't think the 90 was doing anything different than the 60 and I couldnt afford the cost anymore. Well after only a month I have...
what I love is at my house my kids will start raring and get really noisy then my husband turns the tv all the way up so he can hear the tv over the kids. I get chased outsid no matter how cold it is...
I am looking into a new dr. today. I got thinking and seems like no matter what this dr. does I keep getting worse and he won't send me on to a rheumatologist and my insurance requires a referal. The...
This happens to me also my son went to make something one night and I told him to put it in the refrigerator for a minute and 20 minutes. I still can't live that one down everytime he goes to warm...
I have just started getting the sun burn feeling on my arms. I live in the norht east so when this happens I can just go outside right now and it will cool them off. I have something else new...
I'm lucky when it comes to medical insurance because my husband carries that so there are no worries there. As far as the dr. thats what I keep worndering about is if I should change dr.'s I'll go...
I don't have long term disability but I have been told by a lady that did work there that the short term disibility will pay for 6 months by then I will have applied for ssdi. I'm not going to quit...
I work in a factory that is very demanding and the overtime is mandatory overtime when we have to work it. We are required to make a certain amount of parts an hour. The dr. asked if I could work...
Very very good. Love it!!! Funny thing is. I can relate to the french toast except I made it with cumin. Kept adding more cause it didn't look right couldn't figure out why there wasn't any brown in...
iuecbrad, I used to get the shooting pains in my legs like that before the dr. got some of my meds straightened out. I still get them when in a flare. The best thing I've found that works for me is...
i just took offense to the article comment. Nothing else. sorry to hear of your crisis maggie but when you get a chance i would be interested in knowing why you think its time cause I really am...
I'm sorry if I have offended anyone with my posts I'm no longer going to post on this sight and I am going to sign off and will not be returning thanks for your help everyone I really thought this...
My dr. doesn't want me to stop he says the best thing for me is to keep working but I keep telling my mom I don't understand how that can be the best thing when I was working 50+ hours a week, coming...
ak angel, I have exhausted my FMLA. I am now on medical leave but only have about 2 weeks of that left to the best I can figure go back to the dr. this week I know he needs to raise my lyrica which...
when mine all started my mom had me have the dr. I was seeing at the time have me tested for the epstein bar virus which she said she was tested for that determined she had chronic fatigue syndrome....
When my hands hurt it feels almost like its the bones in the top of my hands and the only thing that works is a heating pad for me. I'll lay a heating pad on top of my hands and take some ibprophen....
just wanted to say thank you both of you for responding. Karen I quit drinking soda with my topomax i can't stand the taste of it. Every once in a while my kids will make me taste it just so they can...
I'm new to posting but I have been reading the forum for well over a year and have found a lot of comfort and kindness in everyone. My Dr. has had me out of work for almost 3 months. My job will be...
I'm fairly new here been reading the blog for a year getting a lot of help dealing with the fibro and diagnosis just from reading everyone is so very kind. Anyway I'm on Topamax I can't drink soda...