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.
So I went to a neurologist for help with my pain and he prescribed a bunch of tests, which I'm still getting done. If there's a positive outcome to the tests, he recommended I see a pain mgt dr. Ok, but when I look at all the dr's websites in my plan, they're all "interventional" pain mgt, basically they treat pain by doing injections - nerve blocks, trigger point injections, pain implant pumps (ahh!) I once had a dr try prolotherapy on my back and it actually increased my pain. I don't really feel comfortable with the idea of getting injections into my body for pain that moves around. I could see that helping someone with pain in a specific area, but how could that work for fibro? Does anyone have any experience with this? Im lost. Thanks.
Some doctors will really push stuff on you that you don't need but some things are worth trying at least once.
For instance, trigger point injections benefit many, but I found them too painful with no long term benefit. Same with acupuncture, expensive and left me shaky and didn't help my pain at all.
I saw a sports doctor that insisted that I do this weird typing therapy (he wrote a book about it and posture), I declined. I think he was just trying to make a buck.
In desperation, and when I had really good insurance I tried a spinal injection. The steroid in that left me awake for 5 days straight.
I had a pais specialist try to push behavior therapy on me.
Honestly, I racked up so many medical bills that I was essentially bankrupt in about 5 yrs. And none of it really helped.
Each person has to go on their own journey and go with your gut feeling.