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.
Hi to everyone. I'm sorry that I don't post very often, i'm sorry that I don't respond to everyone very often, but know that I read posts most days and care about all of you tremendously. I've just been struggling so much lately and feeling so terribly lost. I miss teaching so much and I have been desperately trying to come up with a different career that I might be able to do. I can't handle teaching and its all Ive ever wanted to do and now I can't anymore. I have been doing some dappling with being a florist, I've done the flowers for a handful of weddings and I enjoy it, but it can't financially support or help me. I've always like photography so I have bought a new camera and wanted to try to pursue trying to become a photographer. But it's so much to learn, so many details and I don't think I can learn it all to be good enough to call it a job...
My health has shattered so many of my hopes and dreams and I am trying so hard but it's killing me. For the last year and I half I have been sitting around my house just existing, trying to get to the bottom of all of my health problems. But i'm losing my fight, my will, my hope.
My doctors have decided that since research shows that long term use of pain medicine may actually make pain worse and not better that we are going to slowly take me off of the morphine ER. So now it's been almost a week of my first lowered dosage step and I'm dying. This process is going to kill me before I even get to the 4-6 week "wash out".... I am so terrified and scared. I am in so much pain all of the time and I don't know if I am strong enough for this.
I'm sorry am rambling and i'm sure this post doesn't make a lot of sense, but I appreciate you all so much even if I don't post a lot or comment much or say it enough. I appreciate everything all of you say so much.
Love and gentle hugs to all of you and thank you for listening to my ramblings.
Melanie
My health has shattered so many of my hopes and dreams and I am trying so hard but it's killing me. For the last year and I half I have been sitting around my house just existing, trying to get to the bottom of all of my health problems. But i'm losing my fight, my will, my hope.
My doctors have decided that since research shows that long term use of pain medicine may actually make pain worse and not better that we are going to slowly take me off of the morphine ER. So now it's been almost a week of my first lowered dosage step and I'm dying. This process is going to kill me before I even get to the 4-6 week "wash out".... I am so terrified and scared. I am in so much pain all of the time and I don't know if I am strong enough for this.
I'm sorry am rambling and i'm sure this post doesn't make a lot of sense, but I appreciate you all so much even if I don't post a lot or comment much or say it enough. I appreciate everything all of you say so much.
Love and gentle hugs to all of you and thank you for listening to my ramblings.
Melanie
I go to a sr. program at the local community center, take classes at a community college, yoga, etc. However, I am taking oxycodone for a long time, so that I can get up and out. I also take Xyrem at night, and am finally getting good sleep. Sleep is crucial. Wishing you the very best, Abby
Is it possible that you could do private tutoring? You could do it in the privacy of your own home, and make your own hours.
((gentle hugs))