I usually don't post in this forum but I feel like I've got to talk to someone - my life the last few years has been less than stellar, but lately I feel like things are crashing down on me. I broke...
Welcome Janine!The symptoms vary so much so that chances are even if you think you are a really weird symptom of fibro, someone else here will say "oh I had that too" I've heard of sensitivity to...
That used to happen all the time. I think it is one reason it too me so long to get diagnosed. I'd be like the pain is here. Well...it was now it here. They thought it was in my head for a while and...
I went rock climbing yesterday! I feel like I'm gonna die but it felt great to kinda tell my body to take a hike so I could have fun...and it was a lot of fun. :)...
I just want to say thank you to everyone who replied - all your suggestions and stories meant so much to me. I'm glad I found this group. You're all lovely people and I wish you the best in your...
I didn't mean to EXclude your symptoms! I meant that what I think took so long for me to get diagnosed is that is just what I did - I only talked about one thing that I felt was important not...
I don't know if anyone else had this because of Lyrica - I don't know what else it could have been but my dosage got raised and all desire went out the window. My boyfriend tried to initiate things...
So I like to think my boyfriend is a supportive person and sometimes he is. I've been sick with something most of the time we've been together: kidney stones (had three surgeries), gall stones (had...
I'm currently starting to take Ambien - I hated it at first so my doc just changed it to Ambien controlled release and a lower dose. I have my memory of my nights back (what a weird side effect!) but...
Hey Daisy! I felt so glad when I found this site - I didn't know anyone with fibro and just felt so relieved to hear people had the same things going on as me! I'm glad you found it too. As for the...
My friend started topamax and her symptoms were exactly as you described. Like I said, I never had it but she said she couldn't take it. She stopped taking it and said she had nasty withdrawal but...
I've slept on a bunch of air mattresses. My family thinks "oh she's young, she'll be fine on the floor" I wanted to die in the morning I was so sore and all through the day. I can't tolerate but...
I agree - please don't wait. I would try to relax your mind a bit. I know all this must be scary but our brains do have some sort of power over us if we let them. If you don't already try to do...
I've told my employer before about my fibro and I've since never told an employer even when I was sure they'd be understanding though each person has to make this decision. I wasn't fired but I was...
ak angel: what kind of testing did you have done?...
I've been on it for about three years now and it never exacerbated my fibrofog. I have the fogginess every one else does but I never noticed topomax making anything worse....
I've been having tons of trouble sleeping lately but I never drink caffeine and my sugar intake is pretty low. My doc put me on a trial of Ambien. The first kind - I don't think so. Every night I...
I grew up in a smoking home - my parents both smoked and so did my sister (she's 14 yrs older than I am) and my grandmother. Both my brother and I have severe asthma. There's a home video we watched...
Rob, I'm not a doctor so I can't tell you if it is fibro or not - if someone told me those symptoms I wouldn't automatically think of fibromyalgia but it is certainly possible I guess. Try going to a...
I know that I get really bad chest pains like you describe - they told me it was most likely my fibro - the muscles in my chest wall spasming and causing me sharp pain. It seems the most likely...
I'm still on Lyrica and just had my dosed raised by 100 mg. I've been on it for a few years with adjusting dosages. Now just have to readjust to the side effects again. I never gained any weight from...
I went rock climbing once with some friends from school about a year ago at a rock climbing gym and everyone in my family just said "you did WHAT?" my grandmother actually said to my mom "I can't...
I've been really sick with kidney stones and had my gall bladder and appendix out over the last year - I turned 24 this past June. I also lost my father in January to cancer so its been the worst...
I had been sick for months - eventually the docs figured out I had tons of gall stones and they laparoscopically removed my gall bladder. Once they got in there they found out I had endometriosis. My...
This happens to me all the time! A lot of my meds make me drowsy and I've had this problem for a while - when music stops working I find that audiobooks or something that my mind has to focus on...
I decided the other day after my doc appt for kidney stones that there should be fibro doctors. If you have fibro you go to that doctor for everything. I have stones, so I don't go to a urologist, I...
I don't know the size of these stones yet - doc didn't tell me. This is my third round and the last two I've had were around 4 mm. The first doc said that it would pass and it got stuck in my ureter....
This question may have been posed before, but how long was it from the time you started feeling symptoms and the time you were diagnosed? I started feeling symptoms when I was 16 and was diagnosed at...
I am starting my third bout of kidney stones and this is the second time a doctor has told me that the size of the stones I have shouldn't be causing me the pain I'm in. Well - I am in pain and I...
http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/fibromyalgia_behaviour.html I found this website yesterday and it has a ton of stuff about treatments for fibro that I haven't heard of before so I thought I...
Over the last two months or so I've started to get pain in my hands which I've never had before. It starts out really sharp then feels dull and last for a couple seconds to a few minutes. Its really...
The last week or so my muscles have steadily been getting stiffer and just generally...ickier. But it hasn't been that bad - its felt like it normally does but just a bit crappier. At night my legs...
So I've started having a lot of pain recently, but here's a quick background as to why: I was with my boyfriend for two years: on Valentine's Day he cheated on me. I had to continue living with him...
I have an appointment with a rheumy tomorrow - my first one. I'm pretty anxious about it. I know generally what I want to say, but I'm still worried. When I was diagnosed with fibro I never had any...
i'm on 250mg of lyrica - they were going to raise it but I had a lot of trouble adjusting to the side effects so they didn't want to give me any more just yet. I think they might still raise it, but...
Well so I bit the bullet and made an appointment with a rheumatologist I found in springfield. I just kinda picked one so we'll see how it goes. I'm really nervous though - I don't really know what I...
Hey and welcome to the forums - there are a few of us younger folk on here - I'm 21 and currently in college. I get a lot of migraines - they last for...well...a long tme. I dunno if its "normal" but...
I have a history of UTIs and I used to get them all the time - there have been a few occassions where I was 100% positive I had one - had the symptoms and everything - but tested negative. Since I...
So typically most of my pain occurs throughout the day - I don't often wake up with the stiffness and soreness that most everyone on here talks about. Until this morning. I woke up and my entire body...
Your pain sounds a lot like mine - I was never diagnosed with costochondritis but I've just assumed that I have it. So the advice I give is based on my own assumption that our pain is the same -...
I can pop almost every joing in my body - I don't know why but I'm always popping my fingers, my knees, my neck - its almost a compulsion thing for me to do. I've never really talked to a doctor...
Before I was diagnosed with FMS my anxiety was a lot worse. The "not knowing" would drive me crazy. I was terrified of all the things that could be wrong with me - I get chest pain more than any...
I think I am fairly balanced with creativity and logic, however math has always been my least favorite thing to do - though that doesn't mean I was ever horrible at it - I just hated it. That theory...
Thanks guys - I feel better today - still foggy but not so freaked out - yesterday was just a bad day I think - I remember that I did post about it before - sorry! But thanks for your replies - I'll...
I've been in a bad fog over the last week - I may have already posted something about this, but I looked and I don't think I have - so if this is a repeat, my apologies. I've been getting bad...
While I've been going through the posts on here - I've noticed that a vast majority of you usually mention something about God and it seems to keep you going. Are there any of you who don't have a...
I used to be on anti anxiety meds - I can't remember right now why I stopped taking them - I think it was that I just felt so ... cloudy all the time - with school it was really difficult. But with...
Thursdays at 5 I have a repetoire class. Its a class for all the voice and piano students and if we have something ready to be performed we get up on the stage and play or sing it for the rest of the...
Hey Everybody - So I've been debating about getting a new doctor - I've only been to my new one twice and I don't really like her. I feel that she isn't really listening to me and doesn't spend much...
Some people will understand and others won't - you can't make them understand but you can try to educate them - if they are willing do try to print off some information either from the resources here...