Get the book, and a Thera Cane and you are off to the races...
Friends, family and co-workers have no problem telling me I'm in rough shape and should take it easy for awhile....
During deficiencies i can take a large amount. When I still don't need that much it causes large hives on my arms. Which disappear after a few days of zero or small daily doses....
The worst is a few times a year my foot feels like it is getting stung by a bee every 10 seconds. This weekend it was on top of the foot, other times the arches or heel. Regular sleep is not possible...
yup i describe it as like having mono with terrible joint and bone pain, which then evolves into muscle pain (usually the shoulder area) and then brain fog and growing depression at the whole lousy...
had it during a flare-up a few years ago i was standing in the front row of the upper deck at hockey games in Toronto and Buffalo and felt that I might fall over the edge, had to lean back into the...
Showering at the coldest bearable temperature has been helpful in reducing post-shower sweats over the last few years....
The goal is to get better and heal and never want to think about the problem again, until it comes back and then you go through the healing process again... Thank goodness for the internet to show we...
wego, physio was very helpful, if possible and I always have 2 bags of frozen peas or corn set aside purely to ice down my shoulder or neck or arm when "it" returns, 10-20 minute on the area on the...
I haven't had any problems that I'd specifically attribute to a daily intake of 5-8 1000 IU....
You'll fit in just fine here. :)...
Daytime sessions where I lay down on the floor for 20-30 without falling asleep are helpful. Just put on some music or podcast and drift, sometimes I nod off, but rarely am I worse off from this. If...
Yup for ear problems. Cartilage and inner ear pain has occurred. Throwing all my earbud headphones into the garbage has heavily reduced the problems over the last year though.......
And when you recover, please try to limit the amount of time you lean on your elbows to support your body weight. This is a killer, it builds up over time on you until one day... wham !!! With an...
I assume everybody will have a different path based on a few factors. I lost a handful of years going back 25 years ago when it first arose. Since then I lost about a year in 2008-2009, along with an...
I set my priorities a little stronger as time goes by. My work is a top priority and requires me to be reasonably healthy of mind and body to do it, which is understating it... So I have to lop off...
Thanks Robin! I'm in the midst of another cycle of it hitting hard. I will give up things that I enjoy in order to be able to work and function normally until it clears up....
I am so grateful that all the CaTs and MRIs and 100s of vials of blood have never come up with anything horrible over the last 25 years or so. Still isn't a Utopia, but I'm grateful. One hour at a...
For us it's normal. I tell myself that a nap would only last about 15 minutes and I'd wake up feeling even worse than before.... Hang in there!...
see the shoulder knot thread, sometimes the stiffness turns into agony and won't go away without physio......
Also I will note that I overreact to most drugs that I take (cause? effect?) Ibuprofin has me spitting up blood after 2 days, most prescriptions send me into brain fog. So I like to stay drug free....
The shoulder knot is a good indication that things are going downhill for the next little while. I tore the rotator cuff 30 years ago, so tendonitis is always a concern, but this knot is special on...
Thanks Sherrine. The former cat clung to me for 13 years, a headbutter. The new one is content to flop a foot away from me and remain aloof....
That and a Thera Cane and one is all set....
Thanks again to responses! There are times that I have to give up, bouncing back can take a week or so though.... Docs have not been helpful, all I can hope for is they don't dismiss it with...
Thanks GB (Karen): I add the daily package of Mg and malic when in the slough of Fibro, I try to ignore the "women's sense" brand on the box and package. A most helpful thing to me was Pellegrino's...
Thanks for the welcomes. Managing now? Back on the vitamin/supplement cocktail that doesn't seem to hurt, it just might help (Vitamin D, Vitamin C, D-Ribose, MSM/Gluco, some Magnesium combo pill, and...
Hello: It first hit in the summer of 1988, I did not know what was happening and really overextended myself and took about 5 years to completely get over it, finishing a last year of university and...
Sometime it feels like I'm on an electric fence from shoulder right to the finger tips. During the worst day of cycles my whole body is shaking, felt undeniably when I lay down to sleep. Other times...
A year ago I did acu for shoulder and triceps pain. I think it was helpful, the pain went away after 10 treatments, in addition to massage and taking it easy. But the process wasn't enjoyable,...