Hello all!
I'm 24 years old and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia about 3 years ago. It first started as just some small shooting pains in my arms, so I got a blood test and it showed that I had rheumatoid arthritis. My rheumatologist had me on tons of different medications throughout one year (methotrexate, prednisone, humira, embrel...etc) as I kept myself on these meds, the pain got much worse and I was needing tons of tramedol. The pain I was feeling was different though, it was like my entire body was on fire and I immediately knew it was fibromyalgia from what I had read on it before. Long story short, it took a long time for me to be diagnosed because my rheumatologist thought I was making everything up and eventually dropped me as her patient when I pleaded with her to give me something for pain. I went through a deep depression and missed tons of work. Recently I have been put on savella by my primary doctor and I ended up in the hospital after throwing up for 4 days straight and having bad headaches. I was convinced
That I had a stomach ulcer or stomach cancer because that's how bad this nausea and burning pain was in my stomach every day. I did some research and found out that these are side effects of the savella. Has anyone had success withy this drug? Do you find your pain to be at its peak when you wake up?
I'm 24 years old and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia about 3 years ago. It first started as just some small shooting pains in my arms, so I got a blood test and it showed that I had rheumatoid arthritis. My rheumatologist had me on tons of different medications throughout one year (methotrexate, prednisone, humira, embrel...etc) as I kept myself on these meds, the pain got much worse and I was needing tons of tramedol. The pain I was feeling was different though, it was like my entire body was on fire and I immediately knew it was fibromyalgia from what I had read on it before. Long story short, it took a long time for me to be diagnosed because my rheumatologist thought I was making everything up and eventually dropped me as her patient when I pleaded with her to give me something for pain. I went through a deep depression and missed tons of work. Recently I have been put on savella by my primary doctor and I ended up in the hospital after throwing up for 4 days straight and having bad headaches. I was convinced
That I had a stomach ulcer or stomach cancer because that's how bad this nausea and burning pain was in my stomach every day. I did some research and found out that these are side effects of the savella. Has anyone had success withy this drug? Do you find your pain to be at its peak when you wake up?