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Hello, my name is Kay. I was diagnosed last year with fibro after having a surgery. It has been very difficult to deal with and feel guilty, frustrated, sad, etc. that I feel bad so often. It is really depressing. I feel like my life has been ripped out from under my feet. I used to be...

Hello everyone. I am new to your forum. I hope to contribute as well as receive much needed support from this forum. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia way back in the early 80's. AT the time this term was not well known, in fact, even in the medical community many doctors used this term as a...

I have fibromyalgia, sjrogrens, IBS, insomnia im told that its not unusual for a person to have some or all of these.

Hello everyone - I am anxious to connect with others who share my problems. I had my first flare up when I was 38. I'm 69 now. My flare ups are unpredictable. I have always figured they were triggered by stressful events, but I retired in 2013 and we moved to tucson. Two of my daughters live...

Hi... I am very new to this. I was diagnosed over 10 years ago with neuropathy, and had learned to deal with the pins and needles sensations and numbness. The nerve pain was bad at times, but I "sucked it up" along with 800 mg of ibuprofen every 6 hours. It didn't help much at all. Last...

Hi, I am glad to have run across this forum and hope to get some help from it and hopefully also be able to give some help to others thru what I have gone thru. I am 67 years old and have lived with this, believe it or not, since my early 20s. Took years and years to find out I have fibro as...

I am new to this. I have lived with Undiagnosed pain for years. Test after test and nothing showed as wrong. Finally diagnosed with Fibro. Nothing seems to help much. Everything I have read says this disease is not progressive. I believe that is wrong as my symptoms and pain have gotten worse...

Hi all, I am so glad I have found this group! I was diagnosed with FM in 2011. My pain is up and down, but I'm always tired and never sleep well. I've tried so many different things over the years and sometimes I just feel like giving up! One of the hardest things I deal with is feeling...

Hi Everyone, I am very tired tonight but I did manage to find this forum. I'm hoping it's good. When I was first DX with RA I joined a fantastic group online and now that I'm fairly new with Fibro I'm looking for the same. I don't have a lot of time tonight but my first ? is this. Does...

Hi everyone! I am new to this forum. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in April this year and had a really chronic flare in September, which led me to having to have a month of sick leave and cut back to part-time hours to manage my condition. I'm slowly starting to get on top of it, however...