I have fibromyalgia and need some advice?
I found out in 11-06 that I have fibromalgia and have been coping pretty well untill recently, about two weeks ago I began having pain in my legs and feet. It is a sore, aching pain and when I stand up it is hard for me to walk, I attribut this to fibromyalgia but dont know how to deal with it nor what to do. I take lyrica, adivan, flexeril, naproxen sodium, and over the counter pain killers but these dont seem to be helping. Does anyone have any advice?
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1. You may be able to control your symptoms with regular exercise and by finding better ways to handle stress. Good sleep habits are very important, too. If you have trouble sleeping, changes to your routine, schedule, and sleep surroundings can help. Counseling can help you cope with long-term (chronic) pain.If your symptoms are troublesome, your doctor can prescribe medicines that help you feel better.
Symptoms of depression, such as a loss of interest in things you usually enjoy or changes in eating and sleeping habits, can often be successfully treated if you tell your doctor about them.
Some people with fibromyalgia also find complementary therapies helpful. These include acupuncture, massage, behavioral therapy, and relaxation techniques.
2. Having Fibro, I think you should contact your DR. and them him exactly what is going on. Maybe he can prescribe some type of stronger pain meds for instances such as this. My friend has Fibro (10+ yrs now) and it is a very debilitating disease for her...I know that there are varying "degrees" of having Fibro! Good luck and I hope you are able to get some help with this!
3. My mother had it. I advise you to join a support group. Good luck. I know what you are going threw.
4. it's a little hard to provide valuable answers here because it is a "medical" condition. What I would recommend - after being diagnosed with it, amongst many of the attempts to diagnose what was supposed to be wrong with me - is to try something you may not feel ok about, but here goes my suggestion:
Stop with the pain killers. Take nothing more than paracetamol or asprin.
Go see the best chiropractor you can find - mine was a lecturer at the university where chiropractic students learn their skills, and he is also the clinic teacher at the student chiro clinic where they must practice on real patients to earn their grades.
Have you been injured at some time?
Mine was the result of a serious household accident.
If not, were you placed in a stressful - i mean, really stressful - situation at some point prior to the diagnosis?
Stress - not just the every day "pay the bills, deal with life" stuff, but distressing events such as abuse, rape, victimisation of some kind literally locks tension and distress in to the mind and into the body.
Ok, i don't have a heap of links i can send you about it, i can share only that the stress i felt at the time i had my accident locked in and anger, and frustration and fear tripled the pain.
Good chiro, lots of meditation, use of valerian (natural relaxant) and a very determined change of mind to a belief that you are no longer a victim, that you are healed, that you are strong, etc is one of the genuine ways you can release the problem. Detox, and change your diet (check out the possibility that you need to eat less animal products that contain all the hormones, treatments and whatever other crap those poor animals are injected or treated with) - with fewer unnatural hormones and chemicals your liver and blood get a chance to cleanse...
so much to do...
so much to learn!
it is no one answer = the body is complex and is a body-mind, so you need to treat both, I know, it worked for me. and it was not one answer... it was a series of answers...
good luck
Terri
5. I also had this problem. I am not a med. person, but have done extensive research and used to answer questions on a website for a MD who specializes in Chronic Fatigue and Fibro.
First of all, there is a high chance that the thyroid could be causing some of the discomfort. Even if your thyroid levels are normal, it doesn't mean that your thyroid is functioning normally. This is because the normal levels are based on the norms of an average male, not a female.
Secondly, even if it is actually normal, the thyroid may not be producing good hormone ( and this is not currently measurable).
So, in the opinion of medical experts in this field, the pain will not resolve (go away) without thyroid meds. That was my case, and it took a long time to regulate the proper amount of thyroid meds, but now, I seldom have pain. Also, try ULTRACET (not the generic form either) I find it works the best.
Also go to http://www.geocities.com/chronic_fatigue10014/index.html
and also https://www.endfatigue.com/home.nsf
I know it says fatigue, but these two are very similar.
Best wishes and don't let any dr tell you its because you are depressed!
6. Fibromyagia is a symptom of a broken healthcare system. HMO's require a diagnosis for billing and the doctors cannot spend too much effort trying to find out the cause of one persons pain once they have determined that they will not die from it, so they created fibromyalgia the term means fibro=muscle and myalgia=pain it is not a real diagnosis it means we cannot determine why you have all this pain but we will treat it and give you a diagnosis so you feel like we found out the cause. Sorry but they just don't know why this happens hopefully some day we will get to the bottom of it but until then focus on the depression aspect because their appears to be a link but we still don't know what exactly but if you are just taking pain meds and not treating your depression you won't get adquate relief.
