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    Anyone going or already gone through the disability process?

    I applied in May 2013...just started receiving in May 2015...two years! Yes have to have a lawyer and rheumatologist. I was denied 2xs but the lawyer just forged ahead So it takes a long time but if you really are unable to work which is my case because I have fibro and GAD then don't give up...
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    balance problems

    yup yup yup....feels like my floor is tilting half the time...hate it makes my anxiety way worse
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    question about Zoloft

    Just came off Zoloft. was on it for 15 years..was not given it for fibro but for anxiety Can tell you that it stopped working on the anxiety and I can not say it ever gave me pain relief. Also I ballooned up 50+ lbs while on it I do not think SSRI's are any good for this
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    Is it possible for the pain to go away for years and then come back?

    I have to say that mine has come and gone in some severity through out the years. I am now 56 and was working as an LPN also but I contracted two stomach infections that sent my anxiety spiraling out of control and also sent my fibro into over drive. I have not been able to work since Dec 2012...
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    Gabapentin/neurotin

    ok but has anyone had or have experience with Gabapentin? Bad or good?
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    Nearly Everyone is Magnesium Deficient

    I take 400mg Chelated glycinate mag at bedtime. I was never told my mag is low. would it benefit me to take n more?
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    Gabapentin/neurotin

    I was given Gabapentin 100mgs once at night to start. can increase to 300mgs once a night. My Psych NP is hoping it will help me not only with pain/sleep but with anxiety too. I take lorazepam for the anxiety 1.25mgs a day separated in 3 doses. I am wondering what if any effect this drug will...
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    Exercise intolerance anyone?

    Another YES to the bunch. I power walk 3 miles 4xs a week and it has NEVER made me feel better. I do it more for my anxiety and epression. My body hurts and I just keep moving it no matter what... hey we are practically neighbors hangininthere...Rochester, NY= Liverpool, NY (suburb of Syracuse)
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    sensitive to being hit?

    I find if I stub my toe or bang my knee into a table...etc....the pain feels 100xs worse then it should. I just banged my knee into a door and I literally screamed out and cried the pain was SOOOOO bad. I feel as if I am a danger to myself. I was just awarded disability and its a hard fact to...
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    Where is your worst pain

    COAT HANGAR pain. that's where mine is the worst. But days like today my lower back arms legs everythin HURTS
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    Owwwwwwww

    I am such a mess lately and I can not figure what is fibro and what may be another underlying cause. my pain today is unrelenting. I call it the "coat hangar" pain along with my head feeling weird and hurting. All I want to do is cry. sorry I just had to vent. I guess I need to make another...
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    headache?

    I was indeed not referring to migraines. Although I have a hx of having classic migraines, these headaches are not that.
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    headache?

    I get most of my pain in neck, shoulder blades, base of skull...real tender there. So of course I get horrendous headaches too. was wondering if anyone else does and what do you do for it.
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    where is your pain worse

    Mine is : 1. Neck 2. shoulder blades 3. base of skull 4.lower back I have pain sometimes in knees, ankles, elbows but the worse is the 4 I wrote
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    How Fibro affects my day

    well on a good day I can get out of the house. That happens about once a week. I have been denied disability once and now I am having a 2nd hearing in front of judge with a vocational expert to voice his opinion. Judge wants to deny me but she needs more credible opinions on my limitations. UGH...
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