Fibromyalgia Support Group

You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.

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Any new treatments?

lmrmom
lmrmom
I haven't been on in forever, my son and family went off overseas to live for 3 years and I just sunk so low ,Gawd I don't know how I made it thru. My son here wouldn't let me babysit, he thinks I'm no yup to it he wants a younger fitter person. Well that made me feel better ,yah right more depressed more useless. My oldest son and kids are back , hopefully to stay . I'm coming out of my funk doing more slowly . My doctor moved so I lost my rheumatologist appt cause his new staff didn't book it.so is there anything new???? . I tried googling but just got people trying to sell me magic cures.
Emily710
Emily710
Not that I know. I think the last med was Savella.
WhiteDolphin
WhiteDolphin
Well there has been a lot of new research studies and they think they have found that many patients with fibro have small fiber neuropathy.
That's the newest news I know of.
Here's a link to an article if anyone wants to read it.
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=18616
AnnNY
AnnNY
That is a very interesting large study. Now they just need to find out what to do about it, but all these psych explanations are being blown out of the water. It seems to me that whatever is attacking nerves in the skin may be attacking nerves in the brain perhaps causing depression, anxiety and cognative problems.
happyface01
happyface01
I was diagnosed with anxiety way before Fibromyalgia. But looking back I was complaining about physical things like IBS and TMJ before the anxiety. I also had restless legs and insomnia. I really wonder if I had Fibro even back then and anxiety is a symptom of fibromyalgia. OR did prolonged anxiety cause the Fibromyalgia to set in. It's kind of like what came first, the chicken or the egg and I spend WAY to much time thinking about it as I am over analytical by nature.
Emily710
Emily710
Happyface, nothing wrong with being analytical! :) from one to another.

Fun aside, I think it helps tremendously to be super analytical because fibro is idiosyncratic, its effect on people varies in ways that cannot be predicted. So, the road to improvement is by figuring it what makes you feel better or worse.

I too had precursors; early signs of fibro followed by anxiety followed by pain. When I have some time, I will post what I learned about why/how that might happen as it does. (I am a total nerd and read up on everything I can).
fibrolizzy
fibrolizzy
Welcome back! I understand about that sinking so low. My son, DIL, and only granddaughter moved to Mexico to be missionaries. I'm having a very hard time dealing with it.