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  • About Me

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    TheSiobahn

    Female, 56
    Baden, PA, USA
    Member since April 3

    • About Me

      Fibromyalgia for over 12 (more like 20) years, plus I fight digestive problems. I'm a SAHG/Ma, sing in a community choir(when I feel well enough, and love my famly above all else. My GRANDbabies are the be all & end all! I figureLife gives what ever it can , both good and bad. music soothes the bumpy parts and Father leads the journey, gets me through all the brush on the trail.

      Fibromyalgia for over 12 (more like 20) years, plus I fight digestive problems. I'm a SAHG/Ma, sing in a community choir(when I feel well enough, and love my famly above all else. My GRANDbabies are the be all & end all! I figureLife gives what ever it can , both good and bad. music soothes the bumpy parts and Father leads the journey, gets me through all the brush on the trail.

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    • treatment update

      Mood July 23, 2009 10:24am

      ...had 4 treatments of IV venofer and additional 2 units of blood. They had me stay in hospital to recieve the blood and then did a scan of my …

    • new stuff...

      Mood June 28, 2009 6:57am

      Had the scopes...no news is good news. Slight irritation in Jejunum causing (maybe) a little bleeding. Can't digest hard greens …

    • 2 month slater...add insurance!

      Mood June 6, 2009 7:37pm

      Two months post transfuson and i'm totally out of gas! I'm getting the low income highmark(still expensive) nut it pays for everything, so …

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    • Close Fibromyalgia

      Treatments

      Aqua Therapy Working / Worked
      it helps
      Neurontin Not Working
      didn' t help
      Ultram Working / Worked
      saves me every day, w/o it I would be in a chair, housebound!
      Vitamin B12 Working / Worked
      have b-12 anemia too, one injection a month, helps some
      Celexa Somewhat Helpful
      blended with the Ultra , seems to block some of the pain receptors with the upshot of serotonin
    • Close Hepatitis B

      was infected w/ Hep B in 1977, when I bled out after having my first child. I received many units of blood, and they did not screen so well in Europe back then. Now it is chronic. I have splenomegaly, and had a transfusion a week ago for anemia. Now I'm having much pain in the upper r quadrant under ribs.

    • Open Anemia
      Type: Folic Acid Deficiency

      12 year ago doctors botched a corrective surgery and "brke" my duodenum, Now I can't metabolize iron and am ALWAYS anemic!

      Treatments

      Folic Acid Somewhat Helpful
      helps when combined w/ b12 either sublingual(I'm trying it) or the injetions I give myself monthly
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