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.
1. What do you do when you have a remission ? Go to rehab?
2. Doesnt having to go to lots of doctors to find one who gives you pain meds set off alarm bells with anyone? My cousin comes to the coast with huge bottles of oxy contin hundreds of pills .What doctor ould give someone that many pills ? And what pharmacy would fill them?I was scared to drive with her she was so stoned. Oh and she gave me the chronic pain suferers cannot become addicted line .
3.Why do you insist you cannot become addicted ? People with surgeries take them for legite reasons and become addicted ,so therefore if you go into remission you will then be an addict ?
My doctor believre the theory that there is something wrong in our brain with the pain receptors that is why Lyrica it works on that pat of our brain .There is many many write ups online saying that pain killers dont work .I personally have never tried them so I dont know .As you know there are still even doctors out there who dont even believe in Fibromyalgia. I suffer very much from Fibro and also have MCTD .I am hoping for a remission .But I have not been offered opiods by my awesome doctors and am quite happy with that .I believe everyone should make there own choices ,so please make yours but please dont encourage anyone who is in pain to find a doctor to prescribe addicting drugs ,Oh and by the way depedance is the same as addiction .Try going off your drugs cold turkey and see what happens you will soon find out you are addicted.
2. Doesnt having to go to lots of doctors to find one who gives you pain meds set off alarm bells with anyone? My cousin comes to the coast with huge bottles of oxy contin hundreds of pills .What doctor ould give someone that many pills ? And what pharmacy would fill them?I was scared to drive with her she was so stoned. Oh and she gave me the chronic pain suferers cannot become addicted line .
3.Why do you insist you cannot become addicted ? People with surgeries take them for legite reasons and become addicted ,so therefore if you go into remission you will then be an addict ?
My doctor believre the theory that there is something wrong in our brain with the pain receptors that is why Lyrica it works on that pat of our brain .There is many many write ups online saying that pain killers dont work .I personally have never tried them so I dont know .As you know there are still even doctors out there who dont even believe in Fibromyalgia. I suffer very much from Fibro and also have MCTD .I am hoping for a remission .But I have not been offered opiods by my awesome doctors and am quite happy with that .I believe everyone should make there own choices ,so please make yours but please dont encourage anyone who is in pain to find a doctor to prescribe addicting drugs ,Oh and by the way depedance is the same as addiction .Try going off your drugs cold turkey and see what happens you will soon find out you are addicted.
Now we can let this thread die or if refuses to we can at least lighten the mood up - We have had judgemental people among us before don't let them get to you *giggles*
I personally think you are a troll just here to stir shit up. Lyrica is a PAIN medication it is for NERVE pain. Have you ever heard the saying people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones.
I have had fibro my whole life. I still dont take the recommended dose of pain meds my dr gives me. I am in my mid forties and walk like I am in my 90s. I havent been able to bend down to get stuff off of the floor in years. I have missed out on a LOT of things my kids did growing up because I was in too much pain to go sit thru a cold soccer game or if I DID go watch, my muscles would tense up so much that I would have a migraine for 3 days.
I have never known a day I can remember without pain. So until you have walked in my shoes, suffered the way I have and how many others on this board, and possibly your cousin, dont preach to me about how I could be come addicted. The way I see it, if they found a cure for FM tomorrow, I would gladly go thru rehab if I had to, but I am willing to bet that most of us on here, if they found a cure for our FM, WOULDN'T NEED to go into rehab, our pain would be gone, so would our need for the meds.
Hell I know dam well this post isnt gonna die so just pops back in to lighten it up some. . . .
(yes this is an outright attempt at thread hijacking)
Andrea
Yes I plan on eating bacon (lots of it) smoking an extra bowl in honor of this judgemental post and layng around a motel pool