
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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need advice. I think i have fibro at least that is what the doctor has said and has been treating me for but every medicine he has put me on does not seem to work the only thing that seems to help somewhat is loratab. I have been on that for two years now, i finally was able to be seen at the pain clinic, they interviewed me for an hour push on the trigger points and then a few weeks later they sent me a letter telling me that it is not fibro that it is proably psylogical. Im really confused here my Physical Therapist says it is fibro along with my doctor plus the rheumatogist , but like i said the pain clinic says no and a couple of years ago i was at another pain clinic and they said it was all in my head? could it be? I know i suffer with a great deal of pain EVERYDAY. If you have fibro and the doctor pushes on the trigger points all over the body do they all hurt? I guess what im asking is i know the pressure point but i do not feel any pain on the chest area. My worst is in my legs i get it real bad on the side of my thighs u can just barely run your hands down the side and it hurts so bad also my neck shoulders and my arms hip etc. the pain clinic told me that pain in the legs is not part of fibr and also every pressure point they put pressure on should hurt is that true? please someone help me out here. Hope everyone has a good day Sherry
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http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2006/fibromyalgia.htm
For 8 years I have suffered. Initially they ran all kinds of tests, mri\'s etc. Ruled out everything they could and being they could not figure it out, they said it was psychological. YEah, ok...so I suffered 8 years. This last year the doc finally told me I had fibro.
Don\'t settle for this BS. Find a doc that is willing to listen to you and treat you. I don\'t know how it is in Germany, but there is a multitude of studies out there. If you have to print them out and take them to your doctor. I don\'t know what loritabs are. If the docs don\'t want to give you a narcotic, there are plenty of other treatments out there, pain meds that are not narcotics.
Hope this helps, and hang in there. Don\'t give up.
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http://www.healingtides.net/therapy_for_fibromyalgia.htm
^^here a few informational web sites also.
Now that I can choose my own doctor at least I can change if I don\'t like them. I wish I could give you some good advice about your situation, being in Germany makes it even harder. Just know that there are many who know how you feel being told it is all in your head. Those people have never been in the place you are now.
I still have many problems. The dr\'s don\'t seem to want to give anything for pain. So far everything they have given me is like taking an aspirin.
One Dr started my on Cymbalta.... boy be carefull
at first it seemed to help but after about one year it was horrible.... I was very paranoid, depressed, and I cried all the time. I could barely deal with people without crying.
needless to say I have turned into a hermit.. driving hurts, so I don\'t go anywhere and after the last year people just backed away so I have no \"friends\" left. It is just me and my Husband.
He is disabled and walks with a cane. He stoped going around people too because they just don\'t or don\'t want to understand you and that you can\'t do what you once did.
We have lived here 15 years and as of today we have 1 couple (NEIGHBORS) we call friends.
I guess I have been boo hooing... I have felt on the verge of tears today and very depressed.
Sorry. :)
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