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    Do these symptoms check out?

    Hello, I'm 27 and, after looking up the symptoms of fibromyalgia, I'm wondering if I may not be suffering from it. I also looked up some of the possible causes of fibro. I'll begin when the symptoms started, after I had a mRSA infection at the age of 22. The doctors surgically removed the...
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    • Forum: Do I have fibromyalgia?
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    Non-Drug Clinical Trials

    I just wanted to make people aware who don't want drugs/don't get relief from drugs that there are current clinical trials for other therapies: yoga, mediation, devices, etc. If you go to the NIH clinical trials database and type in the search bar fibromyalgia and your state, you can see what's...
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    Gov't restrictions

    With the new gov't. restrictions on opioids, every month I have to visit my prescribing Dr. for the Rx. The biggest trouble is the extra $ it now costs me to see the Dr. each month and the urine tests sent to the lab. For someone on a fixed income this is truly a hardship! In future I may not be...
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    Drug assistance programs

    The cost of medication for most fibromyalgia patients is increasing and others can't afford them denying them a chance to quality healthcare. The following websites are useful or such patients: Medicare Plan B; Which Drugs Are Covered by Medicare; application for Senior Prescription Assistance...
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    Going Medless

    Hey all, It's only been 8mo since I came down with fibro. I've been tested for a hell of a lot of things, but all has come back negative except for the ANAs. So I think I may have mitochondrial damage from a medication I had been taking (unrelated to fibro). I can't even tolerate OTC drugs...
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    Drugs and their side effects

    Hello. I am a 48 yr old wife and mother who was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2004. I attempted to manage pain for years on my own until I had no other choice. My doctor prescribed Cymbalta and that's where my problems began. I decided that the side effects outnumbered the benefits and...
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    feeling defeated

    this is my first original post to this forum and it's going to be a long one probably. i hope that everyone who reads this will be open-minded. i chose an anonymous forum that wasn't on facebook to get into specific details of my life and my fight with chronic illness. i am a survivor of...
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    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: General discussions about fibromyalgia
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    What worked for us

    I have no financial ties to any products mentioned here, and no association other than being a member, with any websites that I may mention. If I mention them, it is only because I, as a mother of a child diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, CRPS and CFS/ME, have found them to be helpful. My...
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Alternative medicines and therapies
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    What worked for me

    Full disclosure. I have no financial ties to any products mentioned here, and no association other than being a member, with any websites that I may mention. If I mention them, it is only because I, as a mother of a child diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, CRPS and CFS/ME, have found them to be...
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    • acne acupuncture age blood pressure chair cure death diagnosis drugs energy exercise feet fibromyalgia foods free gabapentin hope increase medicine minerals money muscle music naltrexone pressure progression research shoulder shower sleep supplement supplements symptoms temperature tests wanted weight weight gain wrong
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Alternative medicines and therapies
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    Medical cannabis to treat fibromyalgia

    Most fibromyalgia patients have reported only poor performance in pain alleviation in the three common drugs prescribed to cure FM- Cymbalta, Lyrica and Savella. What with the side effects reported from treatment with such drugs which are recommended by the FDA. A study conducted by the Pain...
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