Recent content by atuckerit

Does anyone get migraines with their fibro flare ups? My fibro is flaring up today, and my head is also killing me! I am sensitive to migraines, and stress often triggers them. But I guess stress also triggers my fibro to some extent.

Does your partner pressure you or make you feel bad when you are in pain and cannot be as active as you are normally? I have to pretend that I feel good most days, because I know mine would leave me if he knew how I really felt.

My kids sometimes complain that I don't want to go places or do certain things on my bad pain days. It makes me feel depressed and guilty, like I am a bad mother or something. How do your kids react to your fibro, and does it make you worse hearing the complaining from them?

Guaifenasin and probiotics have helped me the most. Along with exercise and a whole foods diet. I don't always follow those, though, and then returns the pain. I wish I had the discipline to just stick with it, because I hate feeling terrible.

You have some really great ideas for how to keep warm? I am sure needing them today. It is my birthday, and I feel terribly cold today. Not sure why. I guess the air temperature outside must be going down. I try to take hot baths a couple times per day, but then I am cold when I get out also!

It is very hard to find a supervisor that understands an illness and cuts an employee slack for it. The last job I had was terrible. The manager wouldn't ever let me have any time off due to me being salary - she thought I was supposed to work 365 days per year. I got burned out and started...

I had severe body pain after delivering my baby. Thought it was a fibro flare up. Turned out some of the pain was from a progesterone birth control pill they had just put me on. Anyone having pain that might be somewhat attributed to hormone pill side effects? Stopping the pill resolved that...

Guaifenasin anyone? Has anyone tried this? It gets rid of my pain completely when I am on it long term and avoid salicylates. A doctor that found this remedy suffers from fibro. Thoughts?

I've hurt myself significantly while moving furniture before. If you are moving, hire someone from Craigslist to help you move things. Doing it yourself will hurt for a long, long time. It is hard to break the pain cycle once it starts.

My worst pain is in my cervical area/neck. I work on computers and have an infant, so I am always in an awkward position holding him or bottles or staring at a computer. Using pillows a lot definitely helps my back and neck.

My significant other has sleep apnea. If he is snoring and doesn't use his machine, he is waking himself up constantly. Our infant son also has apnea of prematurity. He stops breathing and turns blue and is only 3 months old. It is very painful to watch them suffer with this. An apnea machine...

Do you try to use yogi bedtime tea to rest? This helps get my muscles and tissues in a more rested state. It does help me a lot to be able to relax and sleep better. Much better at managing the pain when I take that before bed.

I definitely feel frustrated. I think that I feel frustrated at my lack of physical ability on my bad days. I feel frustrated then that I am depressed or down or moody. Then I feel like I'm not doing enough for my kids those days, so it is peppered with guilt. I also feel I am not being fair...

Are you sure that you don't have thyroid disorder? I have thyroid issues, and I get EXTREME cold sensitivity when my thyroid is too low. To the point where I just want to sit in my house all winter and not leave. I can barely walk when the cold sensitivity strikes. If I make sure my thyroid...

She could do a lot of work online to make money. I am currently making money on mturk, clickworker, bestreviewapp, myappaware, apprebates, perktv, enroll, mobee, gigwalk, and a bunch of other sites. Then she could rest when she is able, but still make some money. Staying home all the time...