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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jazzmynn 09/19/2009

I have been told that I have fibromyalgia and I am not sure if this is a symptom.
I get episodes that cause me to feel nauseated, have bloating, indigestion with burping and I feel very restless.
Have you had this and what helps?

deleted_user 09/19/2009

Jazzmynn, with those symptoms, I would go see your doctor, are you having swelling on your ankles?

deleted_user 09/19/2009

Having the same issue myself right now. Got an appt for the D.O. on Tuesday.

CarrieinSK 09/19/2009

You could try meditation, resting, GasX, Gravol and raising your front of your bed 6 inches (whole bed, not just mattress). Watching your posture while sitting and keeping your back straight may help. Digestive Enzymes, acidophilus with bifidus (20 billion live cultures, no fillers) and a gluten free diet may help with indigestion and burping.

It sounds like more IBS or Celiac's Disease, more than Fibro. You may want to see an Endocrinologist/Internest who specializes in gasto-intestinal disorders.

Your B12 may be low so you may want to get lab tested for this as well as Intrinsic Factor (to see how well your body absorbs B12).

bluesun 09/19/2009

yes, i sip on ginger ale
and recently found out that the cymbalta they had me on made things much worse for me. so i have to get off it.

another thing that helps is chewing on ginger

deleted_user 09/19/2009

Stomach issues are definitely on the long list of symptoms,, between stress and the meds/supplements how could you not have trouble?

Wonderbaby 09/19/2009

I call these symptoms Saucy Suzie! She's my gassy gal!
But I suppose to a doc it's called IBS I don't feel so restless though.

deleted_user 09/19/2009

After years of test & Doc denying there was anything wrong w/ me labled hypocdrack & looking for attention cause parents were divorced @ 2yrs! Had bad batch of vaccines 1958-59=scare on leg size of quarter!
Was always sick =like i had the flu/tired no energy! fraile!

i was dx w/crohnes after 43 yrs of suffereing as a baby! Said i had it since birth! Also Mitro value prolapse(deformed heart value-also refused surgury)
After my mother old doc i would always go sit away from everyone holding my stomach & within hr i ha a dirty diaper! As i was growing up i told everyone that my stomach hurt, went to docs but they never found anything @ 8yrs old had 7 appendisidis attacks in a yr=but appendex was fine!
same yr got chicken pox & measles together had to have spinal tap =in hospital for 3weeks= had horrible migrines after that!

still everytime i have bowel movement =it feel like i'm being cut up inside! Then i go & everthing is fine!
they found two 6in on ea side the size of straws=REFUSED OPERATION= cause they said i might have o wear bag rest of life! so i have to watch what i eat NO BREAD OR ANYTHING W? YEAST, corn rasins=anything that won't digest well or fit thru straw!
I alternating being constipation & diareea then add side effects from meds! I'm always in pain w/ stomach but just part of life now!
being eating yogurtw/probiatics & chew acidiphilus w/bifidus after i eat & it has been helping!

After years of ER rooms i know now!=If i bloat up, i know i'm blocked! i don't fool around=take a enimias w/1tps lemon juice & minarel oil releaves blockage & inflammtion!
also massage stomach to help everything break-up & move thru!
tried the inflammtion meds & highly allergic to asprin!
Still wondering if all this was cause from vaccines when i was two yrs old!!!!
and have been told these are symtoms of "FIBRO" ..........

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