Having fibro or any long term chronic illness is depressing, we've had to make so many changes to our lives, how we live, some capabilities, decrease in finances, even the seperation from our other halves, continious pain and fatigue, flares, the almost non stop docs, clinics, tests, the list goes on and on doesn't it? We would have to be androids not to get depressed at times living as we do with this condition.
Hugs, Owlxx

Yeap, I take the anti-depressents..... but, I am still human, I still have blue moments. I think depression is a combination of many things.....your past, your physical condition, chemical imbalance, your enviroment......it can be lots of things.....but I also think we can make decisions about staying depressed. There are things we can do to make it better. You can choose to to stay in bed and just mope around. You can also choose to make the best of things and take meds and participate in life. If we let ourselves think about all the BAD and Painful things, sure we will get depressed, just keep pushing on. Keep your chin up and think positive!!! If today is a bad day tomarrow is a new one.

Hugs, Laceyblue

Thank you all for your support and kind words. They are working on the right combination for me and we just haven't found it yet. Honestly I think I am still struggling with the fact that i have Fibro. It still makes me mad! I still think I'll be ok tomorrow and be able to get up and get EVERYTHHING done. Its not going to happen ever again like that and it really depresses me. But thanks for all the support. You guys are the greatest!
xoxo
~dixie

This just makes me so sad. I got depressed when I first found out I had FMS and before I understood why I was feeling the way I did. I had such bad fatigue and felt ashamed because a simple shower tired me out. I felt embarrassed because I would forget some important event or not want to go due to pain. I felt guilty due to not being able to do the things I used to do and being a burden on my hubby and kids.

Know what, my thought process has dramatically changed. We are the victims here. We have been dealt a horrible, debiliatating illness, one that gets little support from big med companies or doctors.

Through friendships here, finding new treatments, support from family, medications and forgiving ourselves, we'll be able to manage and beat this.

Hi, sorry your depressed. You asked, "What do you do when you just can't take no more?"
You get mad. You have to accept this disease and move on. You have to say, OK, Its here to stay and I am not going to let it get the best of me. You must get the best of it. Accept that you have it and then learn how to live with it. Life goes on, how will you let this disease control you? I don't mean to sound so harsh, but that is exactly what I have had to do: Get Mad and move on, or else it was going to take me down. I'm a fighter. Are you? I will be praying for you. Hope the medicine starts working soon.

Lord I know I have been depressed a lot and we have tried a few things. I am at a loss at times and I just want to cry all the time. I just want the people around me to under stand what I feel and how bad I hurt. It doesn't just come and go it is here to stay!!!

To me that is the worst part...the depression. We feel bad enough and hurt all the time, become limited to what we can do and then have to deal with depression and all its symptoms! The depression is what I hate the most!

I found that to be the same for me. I found at times I would stand in the shower and just cry because not just the pain but the pain my family is going through having me broken. The depression seemed to make everything 110% worse.

I have suffered with depression (and PMDD before my Hysterectomy) for years. Fibro hit hard after Hysterectomy. Here is what I have learned in a nutshell. Without the meds, it's like we have no control over these constant intruding thoughts of everything negative in our life now, and in the past. It's like we can't turn it off. With the depression meds (ssri's), it somehow turns that off, and our thoughts become much more balanced, and we feel sad when appropriate, and we don't ruminate anymore. Also, with depression comes feeling worthless, and the meds help that too. It turns off all( well maybe not all but a lot), of those negative feelings that we have about ourselves, that our NOT natural, but part of the disease of depression. The trick is waiting long enough to see how well the drug is working, then find the right dose, for example mine is 60 mg of Fluoxetine (generic prozac). 80 mg is the max. Many people are not on high enough doses or aren't on the right one. I've been on several, and some of them not as long as others. For me personally, Fluoxetine has worked the best. I still have my days, i.e. one of my last posts entitiled "I'm so depressed". It usually comes when I'm in a flare up. It's like something happens in my brain, and I don't have any control over it at the same time that my flare up is occuring. I really think it's physiological. It sure helped to post how I was feeling that day and get the supportive feedback from others. We all need that when we feel like that, and who better than others who suffer like us, to help us get through, and most of us understand all too well how depression is so much associated with Fibro. SOOOOOOO... sorry about the long post.. hang in there, I think you are on the right track, and soon hopefully, you will almost forget how depressed you were, but.... don't go off because you think you are better, done that many times years ago, and had nothing but relapse depression when I went off. I hope something I said here helps. Hang in there, and keep posting. We are here for you!!! PS you can also eat lots of potatoes:):) helps me!!!