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.
1st of all....
i just wanted to thank of all of you for the totally awesome support i got the other day during my crying on and off days. y'all are some of the most awesome people on the face of the earth. i mean it. when i started reading your messages, responses, hugs, i started smiling, laughing, and just couldn't help myself.
i mean, i get ibs on and off every other day just about and it feels like my life is RUINED. and that's not to mention the daily fibro "package" of struggles i go thru that wares on me. y'all just totally understand and im so very thankful to have found you. but gee, the support had me smiling and giggling and unduki, your poopie categories just had me forget all about my gut pain! lol
2nd....
i started aqua therapy!! YAAAYYY!!!!!! it's about darn time! i've been waiting and fighting for this for over 1/2 a year now!!! aqua therapy is awesome!!! i'm so happy i started! i've only done 2 sessions but i love it! it's in a heated pool, too!
i talked to my new p/t about the ibs {how often i have it, the both extremes, the "accidents", the inability to go as well, the numbness, the confusion, etc} and she thinks that i need to get some Xrays and MRIs done on my S-spine (tail bone) ASAP, and that i may have something more goin on than "just" ibs. they already forwarded the information to my PCM and i guess i'll have to see what comes about form that.
so cross your fingers that whatever comes out, is treatable and they figure this thing out. who knows, maybe i can get most of the ibs thing "taken care of"! hope and pray for me, k?
i just wanted to thank of all of you for the totally awesome support i got the other day during my crying on and off days. y'all are some of the most awesome people on the face of the earth. i mean it. when i started reading your messages, responses, hugs, i started smiling, laughing, and just couldn't help myself.
i mean, i get ibs on and off every other day just about and it feels like my life is RUINED. and that's not to mention the daily fibro "package" of struggles i go thru that wares on me. y'all just totally understand and im so very thankful to have found you. but gee, the support had me smiling and giggling and unduki, your poopie categories just had me forget all about my gut pain! lol
2nd....
i started aqua therapy!! YAAAYYY!!!!!! it's about darn time! i've been waiting and fighting for this for over 1/2 a year now!!! aqua therapy is awesome!!! i'm so happy i started! i've only done 2 sessions but i love it! it's in a heated pool, too!
i talked to my new p/t about the ibs {how often i have it, the both extremes, the "accidents", the inability to go as well, the numbness, the confusion, etc} and she thinks that i need to get some Xrays and MRIs done on my S-spine (tail bone) ASAP, and that i may have something more goin on than "just" ibs. they already forwarded the information to my PCM and i guess i'll have to see what comes about form that.
so cross your fingers that whatever comes out, is treatable and they figure this thing out. who knows, maybe i can get most of the ibs thing "taken care of"! hope and pray for me, k?
Glad to hear you're liking the aqua therapy. So happy you got it.
Yes, have some tests to make sure that it is IBS.
Boy I wish I had one at home. It;s a step in tub with a treadmill built into it
I had something "Other Then" IBS-D going on..but it always just got pushed off as Stress...what I Really had was Diverticulosis...that Exploded into Diverticulitis...and let me tell ya Honey...it ain't Perty...A Real Shitty Deal if ya want my Honest Opinion..
had someone Told me when it was first discovered what NOT to eat...I probably could have Avoided this Whole CRAPPY Mess..
but now here I sit..
Actually Feeling pretty damn Fine as Long as I AVOID Certain Foods..
I just don't think I BELIEVE in IBS...if your shit is screwed up...there HAS to Bee a Reason !!
DR, i've heard of that illness and the nightmare it is.... i'm just praying to God that's not what i have.... . and the part that sucks is (or i guess would be confusing), that i've been eating pretty healthy most of my life, so if i DO have it, i have no idea how it would have happened. :(
FibroFighter, i eat white rice all the time.... doesn't make difference. :(
i'm praying that somewhere somehow between either the radiology or the GI doc i have, that they find answers. cuz ibs shouldn't be this miserable should it?? i mean, am i supposed to have flares almost every day? does ibs include all those symptoms above?
DR, do you think my GI doc should repeat my colonopscopy from the last one i had back in '02?? hearing your story got me all worried now. how do you get tested for all that stuff?