Thanks Guys - I've made an appointment with my local doctor to get a referral to a another neurologist - and discuss other possible drugs to try. Anything opioid based seems to help but I refuse to take them ongoing because of the addiction potential. I've also got a session with a pain...
I'm somewhat confused. I saw my neurologist last week and he told me that Fibromyalgia does get worse over time - and added that there were no medications he could prescribe to offer me any pain relief - and that I had reached a point where I need to seriously look at stopping work to allow me...
I can definitely relate Katie. I have insurances that would pay me 80% of my salary for two years and a substantial lump sum if I gave up work but as I am the major earner (by a long way) in our family it would place enormous pressure on my wife and I really dont want to do that - she is my rock...
Thanks sunkacola - i will start doing that - I generally wait 15 minutes for my wife to be ready to walk so its an ideal time to stretch and remove my annoyance at the same time :)
Hi Longtimer, I have recently been diagnosed and at the time was ordered by my neurologist to stop all pain killing medications for a period of three months. That Expires in 4 days (not that I'm counting). this included all opioids as well as more benign meds such as paracetamol. About 4 weeks...
Thanks sweetkamie20,
I have only begun to scratch the surface of the information contained in the forum, but have already gained a better understanding of what it is and does - and been pleased to see that humour is commonplace. Things don't seem to hurt as much if you're smiling :)
I hope to...
Hi JayCS,
I'm from Australia - and sadly it seems that the closest I have been able to find here are forums discussing pain, not Fibro specifically.
I am slowly looking through some of the discussions here and admit to being fascinated - there are so many stories that I can relate to - and...
Greetings all. Well done to all who post on this forum. I hope you dont mind the intrusion but I come from Aust and have struggled to find something similar to this here. I was diagnosed about 7 weeks ago by a neurologist but had suffered symptoms for many years that I had put down to arthritis...