Thank you for the sites im seeing doctor this week and hope to be on medication for pain. I dont think the natural way is working very well for me i do want to stay on all the vitamins but i do think i need something more to make the pain more manageable. Thanks

Hi fibrowitch, the natural methods didn't work very well for me either. My overall health is improved and I won't give up any of the things I do to keep myself healthy, but nothing made the pain any better so I'm on meds for that.

I hope your doctor can give you something that will help.

I'm not new but haven't seen this before. I am saving and printing to read later.

Thanks,

I guess thats what I've been doing wrong too- just ignoring the Fibro and hoping it will go away, not taking medications apart from over the counter pain killers on days when the pain got too bad. When I think about the thousands of $ Ive spent on alternative medicine, vitamins, special diets, naturopaths, herbal remedies etc, I could cry... yet every week either someone tells me about a 'miracle' natural remedy or someone posts a link on the internet, makes life even more confusing knowing whether to believe it or not...

I personally am not ready yet to give up pan meds, although I have found some very promising natural alternatives. Thanks for the info Emily710.

Thank you for posting this. I tried to read the first one but I'm having trouble waking up today so I got lost after about a page and a half. The second one though was very interesting and helpful so thank you for that. It did kind of make me sad to realize that I am doing a lot of that stuff without even knowing the details behind it and things are still painful but I'm hoping the advice to get the doctor to listen will help me when I go.

Emily, great post! I don't think this should be reserved for only the newbies. It's a very realistic and well rounded approach for handling this illness.

Thankfully, after trying Cymbalta and pain meds (none of them worked), I began trying more natural approaches. It's funny that I've settled on the exact vitamins and supplements that was recommended in the article. I think that magnesium, a quality B-complex and D3 are best building blocks. I've taken others over the years and still take a couple of extra ones but those 3 are very helpful.

Again, great info. You should repost this under a different topic name so other "old hats" will want to read it too.

thank you I found all your info very helpful, thank you for sharing

When I click on the link it says download. Is there a way I can read the article without downloading? Thank you.

i have tried most of the info on this site. but sadly my body has made my problem worse off as medication has little effect for me. me and my mothers side of the family have a strong resistances for artificial medications. as are body's build up resistances so fast that inside a month we normally are already taking max does of medications. and even then we just start to get sick from it all there are few meds we can take and even then we can only take them every once in a while so that are body doesn't completely reject it.. this has made recovering/improving my condition extremely hard on me. at most i can manage to get up out of bed in the morning just to sit in a chair most of the day no more then 5 feet from that very bed. i try to eat better but my lack of energy ruins my appetite and that lowers my energy even more. i am a sad mess that can barely take care of myself. this condition in my current state has the ability to actually kill me because it is keeping me from getting better on my own and will most likely stress me into a pit of endless depression which will effect my heart issues. i have tried all i could in the past 3 years of dealing with it. i just don't know what to do any more.

Holy Cow!

It's taken me all day to read the What Primary Care Physicians Should Know....

A lot to think about!

I have often thought because of my fog that it would somehow lead to dementia. Now they say early dementia! The article did not say if the treatment could lessen this effect.

I've got a lot to talk to my rheumatologist about at me next appointment the end of Nov. I've been waiting 3 months since I called with problems and asked for an appointment this was the first available.

Off topic my area needs more rheumatologists or Primary Care Docs that can and will medically manage fibro.

Emily 710 thanks for the website!

Wow. That is frightening. At the same time, though, it supports the need for pain medication. If only some (many) doctors would get on board with this. Many care more about being chastised for prescribing narcotic pain medications than they do about easing our pain.

Good info! Thanks for posting the links.

Traces, note that they recommend Cymbalta, Savella, and Lyrica. It has been a while since I read it, but I don't think they recommend narcotics. Sorry if I remember wrong.

AGEluv, I am so sorry that your experience with medications has not been good. I have had wonderful results with a low dose of naltrexone; 3 months at 1.5 mg IN THE MORNING, and 3.0 mg after the three months. Maybe that is something you haven't tried.

None of it makes any difference to my FMS...