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New Kid on The Fibro Block

bluwhispr2
  • By bluwhispr2 · New reply May 10, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Hello all, a dear friend recommended this site to me as I am coping with Fibromyalgia. While the diagnosis is fairly new I believe I've been dealing with the condition for the better part of 13 years ...

Diagnosis? or Symptom?

SillySally
  • By SillySally · New reply April 23, 2013
  • 21 replies
  • Fibromyalgia has been described to me by a 'doctor' as a 'silly womans Syndrome'!! What a disgusting thing for a Dr to say to a patient? don't you think? Some Dr's just don't believe any of it! (such ...

first post

Fibroguy
  • By Fibroguy · New reply April 22, 2013
  • 9 replies
  • Hi everyone. Well looks I'm in the club now. after a few years of feeling really lousy I finally got a diagnosis back in February. Then in March was diagnosed with low testosterone. And this month I have ...

New Meds

linjog
  • By linjog · New reply April 11, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • I was recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, I was also diagnosed with MS in 2005. I just started the titration pack of Savella and am on my 4th day and feel very drugged...How long will this feeling last ...

just diagnosed with fibromyalgia

daniellem
  • By daniellem · New reply April 8, 2013
  • 9 replies
  • I have recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, i was just wondering what medicine and treatment was good for you all? Right now i am neurontin and robaxin and firocet for my headaches ...

not easy

soberquet
  • By soberquet · New reply April 6, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • I'm reading some of your posts, and it sounds like me as well. The cold gray weather, and sometimes even if it's nice and warm. Fibrofog, or is it just the meds. I also find that I'm forgeful which is ...

hi

soberquet
  • By soberquet · New reply April 5, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • OH BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! I really don't need to feel this at all. I'm only in my late forties and I feel like my body is that of an eighty or eighty five year old. if at all do we ...

Anyone else have this pain

proudmama0285
  • By proudmama0285 · New reply March 29, 2013
  • 13 replies
  • Hello, I have had the pain in my left breast up into my armpit. The pains started over two years ago, I thought I was having a heart attacks. I would be in the ER every week because I thought I was having ...

Brain Fog

Jayke2160
  • By Jayke2160 · New reply March 28, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • Hello my fellows, My name is Jake. I'm 30 years old and I just got my diagnosis yesterday. Much like many posts I've read I'm very tired all of the time, and I hurt all of the time. I can't concentrate ...

Left breast tenderness toward armpit and sharp armpit pains

hsbell
  • By hsbell · New reply March 25, 2013
  • 11 replies
  • I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I am a little worried and having a hard time dealing with my diagnosis. I have sharp pains in my left armpit and left breast soreness. I took my blood ...

Tired of being sick and tired!!

katyjean
  • By katyjean · New reply March 24, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • Hi all ...just joined the group. I have had two possibly three heartattacks. Several bouts of chf and NOW they tell me I have fibro. I had been taking Prozac 40 ml twice a day ..it really helped with ...

Inflammation

Happy_go_lucky
  • By Happy_go_lucky · New reply February 26, 2013
  • 22 replies
  • I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia 15 years ago after my surgery to my colarbone. My arm healed slightly leaning forward and I felt it was impinging on the nerves in my arm going to my head, but doctors ...

Hi! I'm new here.

HeatherM73
  • By HeatherM73 · New reply February 19, 2013
  • 17 replies
  • Hello. I am new to Inspire. So far I love what I have seen. I have very recently been diagnosed with FM. Looking back I am not sure when my symptoms started because the more I read the more I remember ...

Newly diagnosed, what now?!

emjharts
  • By emjharts · New reply February 19, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • I have recently been officially diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, even though I know that I've had it for years (previous doctors didn't take me seriously). Anyway, I've been on Tramadol for a few weeks now ...

Does moving to a dry climate help fibromyalgia

Inpatsfan
  • By Inpatsfan · New reply January 11, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • Hello Everyone I have just been diagnosed less than 2 months ago for Fibromyalgia. Does moving to a drier climate help ? My doc here in Indiana told me that I should consider a move to a drier climate ...

old issue and yet newly diagnosed

stepswoo
  • By stepswoo · New reply January 8, 2013
  • 8 replies
  • I've been dealing with CFS & Fibro for the past 6 yrs and yet just received a diagnosis. I find it interesting after all this time and meds that they have pushed my way that it has taken this long. Of ...

Seasons Greetings!

Fibrogal5
  • By Fibrogal5 · New reply December 25, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. I hope you are all as much painfree as possiable. Love and best wishes from GB.x ...

asking for more meds

babybleu
  • By babybleu · New reply December 24, 2012
  • 7 replies
  • Im on the savella, its doing good for the everyday achy pain, and is giving me alittle more energy, but It doesnt do anything for the break thru pain. Like the pain in my arms and shoulders that I wake ...

flare up?

babybleu
  • By babybleu · New reply December 18, 2012
  • 8 replies
  • this is going to sound like a elementry question but what concidered a flare up? Is it when daily pain gets signifigantly worse? or theres a new pain or symptom? Or when I go from a fairly normal day ...

new here

nuggy
  • By nuggy · New reply December 5, 2012
  • 9 replies
  • hi , I have been diagnosed only 3 weeks ago with Fibromyalgia. I had a hysterectomy in february and haven't felt good since. I dont actually know when the effects of the hysterectomy ended and the effects ...

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