Sirlaidlaw
New member
- Joined
- May 24, 2021
- Messages
- 2
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 02/2021
- Country
- CA
- State
- PE
I have only been diagnosed this past March. I went to my nurse practitioner and complained about the month of joint pain I had experienced. It was excruciating all the time; kept waking me up so I couldn't sleep; made me want to cry every waking moment. I can handle my pain, folks. 5 children - all natural childbirth, four without any medication. I was sick to my stomach with this pain and it was relentless. Anyway, she sent me for every blood test on the grid. Every one came back normal and she even said in the perfect range. Checked for PMR, RA, thyroid, B12, Osteoarhtritis, etc., so she said the next assumption with widespread pain was Fibromyalgia. She suggested trying Cymbalta as it had been successful treating it and asked if I would give it a go. I said I would and began taking it the next day. I had a follow-up appointment 3 weeks later and we decided I would continue it a while longer to see if it helped. I said I would continue it because the stabbing pain in my joints when moving and the general bruised feeling everywhere else was getting less pronounced.
It has been 4 weeks since then and still feeling achy most of the time. I am having a hard time accepting that this is how I am going to feel for the rest of my life. I have always been a very active physical worker - I lay floors and assemble cabinets for my living - now I tire after three or four hours of work. Not sleepy tired, although there is a bit of that also, body tired. This is not the me I am used to.
Thinking back over the past few years, I think this has been rearing it's ugly head and I just didn't see it coming, that is til it bit me outright. Studied up on it since it being diagnosed and some of the symptoms have been in my life for quite some time. Out of a list of 20, I have 14.
Spending time reading and learning and hoping you all have advice I can use. Read the big helpful pinned post and I'm on some of it already. Guess I still have some accepting to do yet, though.
Thanks in advance for all the stories, advice and support.
It has been 4 weeks since then and still feeling achy most of the time. I am having a hard time accepting that this is how I am going to feel for the rest of my life. I have always been a very active physical worker - I lay floors and assemble cabinets for my living - now I tire after three or four hours of work. Not sleepy tired, although there is a bit of that also, body tired. This is not the me I am used to.
Thinking back over the past few years, I think this has been rearing it's ugly head and I just didn't see it coming, that is til it bit me outright. Studied up on it since it being diagnosed and some of the symptoms have been in my life for quite some time. Out of a list of 20, I have 14.
Spending time reading and learning and hoping you all have advice I can use. Read the big helpful pinned post and I'm on some of it already. Guess I still have some accepting to do yet, though.
Thanks in advance for all the stories, advice and support.