Took me two years to taper benzos and 3 years to get through withdrawals - fibro is a cake walk compared to psyche drug withdrawal...
If you are on it long the withdrawals are 100 times worse than the worst fibro...
All my life I have been a balls to the walls outdoor recreation athlete - mountain climbing, dirt motorcycles, trail running, jet skiing and so on. I have had mild fibro syptoms for over 15 years,...
When we do this often enough we reach allostatic load and the nervous system locks into chronic high arousal as a protective mechanism and the accelerator to stuck to the floor 24/7 causes hundreds...
Here is one major way we cause our own anxiety !! We have a thought or sensation - the brain does not like things happening without a reason so we make up a cause. Because our limbic, system once we...
Lyme is just one of a 1,000 health conditions that we can obsess about and this post should inject enough fear to rattle the amygdala and cause some real nasty anxiety. I have a friend who works for...
Stimulation substitution is a major help for driving anxiety. Too long to discuss why this works on the CNS but taking crunchy food to nibble on can be a major help - celery, carrots, chips, apple...
After facilitating a community anxiety support group for 12 years I saw patterns in 99% of all our members. One major one now confirmed by many research projects if the effect of ACE (adverse...
Since they do not work on the same receptors there should not be an issue...However Xanax and all benzos are poor choices for sleep - they disrupt the most critical sleep stages that can increase...
I have had tons of massage - sort of OK while getting it. By the time I am home I feel no better and some times worse from my face squished in the cradle...
December 1st 2017 my wife was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. We made an emergency trip to Arizona 1,400 miles away to sell our winter home and everything in it. While there caught he worst flu...
For over 25 years we have kept an winter Arizona home to escape the long dark Oregon winters. I have struggled to make the 1,400 mile drive and keep up two homes for years. We love having both places...
Costco has a special on hot tubs for $2,000 delivered. I don't know if it would help pain but I am concerned about the heat. When I take a long hot shower I feel nauseated and woosey afterwards. I...
Yes feel free...Please...
Women are partly progesterone dependent for GABA production. Men are not. Just before menses and after menopause the progesterone drops and some women are low by genetics...
Forgot this - stress lowers GABA and raises glutimate - just being concerned you are ill can be enough to lower GABA...
I have been a medical journalist for many, many years and because of this I read lots of medical journals. I am also an extreme fibro sufferer that has recovered in the past – and now back worse than...
I have been around fibro groups for many years and have seen few people recover completely. I am coming back here to share a whole different approach to fibro and all the other conditions that go...
Unfortunately oran GABA does not cross into the brain and for some of us fish oil can cause anxiety - made me darn near psychotic. Same with B vitamins some think they help and others of us know the...
Betsey How did you do in the summer - is Florida still better...
I have had minor fibro for years – last July it went full force. We live in the cold and wet Washington State and this is my first winter with severe fibro. When I go out the cold makes me almost...
Because of insurance changes I had not seen my therapist since October. At that time she told me to stop reading recovery books, stay off support forums and stop researching it. When she asked how I...
I have ahd three lyme tests all negative...
Yes had all the auto immune tests, lyme and over 75 - all OK I have severe muscle pain - nausea (major) burning, shaking, insomnia and much more...
When I get up in the morning I am so sick I feel like I am going to die. The nausea is so profound and then there are about 50 other disabling symptoms. I have been checked and tested for everything....
In trying to recover I was wondering how often and how much time people spend on these things: Thinking about What Do about The Condition Reading about It Talking about It Doing Research Being On...
Anxiety drugs eventually stop working and then make the condition worse. I could not work if I had to....
Back in July I was able to walk miles and ride my bike all afternoon. I got up one morning with my feet hurting so bad I could not ride my bike then within a week I could not walk and the pain had...
Kitt My mother in law - sister in law and good male friend have all recovered from colon cancer. What a horrible thing to have happen to an anxiety person - we can be afraid of a stray pimple. I have...
Hi Kitt Thank you for the kind words. I worked with people coming off psyche drugs for 12 years and Buspar was not a difficult one. It did not work for me but if you are getting relief it is probably...
Quite a while back I switched from anxiety and fear to physical symptoms of anxiety. They are now so bad I am totally disabled by them...has anyone else been here: Insomnia Total body muscle pain –...
Thanks Kitt I have been in therapy for some time. What is concerning to me is that I no longer have fear type anxiety - it is 99% body pain and sickness - very severe so I can not work or cope. Have...
I had severe anxiety and was housebound two years at age 19, worked my way out of it and went to college and became a medical professional. IN 1989 had huge stresses and was put on Xanax – worst...
Has anyone tried the hand held vibration or percussion massagers. Were they any help. Thanks...
Our personal genetics are the major factor in how we respond to medications and how much withdrawal we have in going off. If you read the antidepressant and benzo forums the length of time and dose...
Gastroparesis is a common stress condition caused by over activation of the sympathetic nervous system – same as fibro – a system stuck in sympathetic dominance...
All these diet restrictions are a Red Herring – Fibro is caused by a dysfunction in the HPA axis in the central nervous system. It is the same for anxiety – IBS and MCS. Once you are eating a good,...
This is a report by one the the premier food chemists/nutritionists in the USA http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane158.htm Osteoporosis is partly genetic and largely from lack of weigh bearing...
There is a lot of research coming out that the vitamin D rage is another marketing gimmick. In Europe they consider 20 to be an acceptable level where in the USA doctors have been brain washed to...
I gave you a subject line so you would get more responses. Sherrine ...
Has anyone had their fibro come on suddenly when it started. I had been having a few painful hours in the middle of the night every few months then I woke up one morning crippled. My doctors tell m...
This is hard science not theory - but as one of my medical professors told me a patient that argues for their condition gets to keep it...
norepinephrine reduces pain then makes it worse...
I have studied neuroplasticity for many years and since my fibro had not been an issue I had not used the techniques for it . Now that I have spoken with U of Arizona fibro expert, Dr. Ross and Dr....
Here is a great example of where I think the medical model is harmful. Savella (Milnacipran) is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. This increases norepinephrine...and this increases...
Hi Sherrine Being a medical professional I know that anyone presenting with anxiety, IBS, fibro or stress is going to be given one option – drugs and we also know that they tend to perpetuate the...
I just read the doctors article in Fibro 101. Let say first of all I hurt and I am near insanity at times with the pain so I know it is real and not a “figment”. To understand the mind body...
“This link has learned doctors talking about what they are discovering about fibro and that it's not all in our head” Actually it is – if it were not coming from the central nervous system which is...