fibr o_o head
New member
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2020
- Messages
- 4
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 04/2020
- Country
- UK
Hi everybody! I'm new to the forum so hello everyone
I am 27 and I was just a few months ago diagnosed with fibro. I am finding my feet and it is all a bit overwhelming. Trying to take each day as it comes.
I experience pain and definitely, nausea every day, but I know I am luckier than some. At the moment though, nausea and the feeling of being constantly on the verge of having a migraine -- these 2 symptoms are absolutely ruining my life. I'm a PhD student so I need to be able to concentrate. Earlier my nausea / migraine feeling was so bad I tried to count the number of lumps on a tree trunk in order to focus my mind and was unable to do it, so this is the level that we're talking.
The neurologist I have been dealing with (via occasional letters! this is the NHS after all! ) has suggested I go on propranolol for this symptom. I know this is a beta blocker, because I was put on it before, a few years ago, for anxiety -- and so I can understand the logic here. But the reason I resisted staying on propranolol despite the positive effect it had on my anxiety was that it gave me terrible, consistent, insomnia. Since a good night's sleep is obviously fundamental to resisting 'bumps' or downturns in the world of fibro (I've been calling them bumps) I'm at a bit of a loss here.
I just wondered if anybody else suffers nausea and migrainey headaches, plus a feeling of sinus pressure, with their fibro or CFS and whether you took the beta blocker route and what your experience was?
Thanks a lot everyone xx
I am 27 and I was just a few months ago diagnosed with fibro. I am finding my feet and it is all a bit overwhelming. Trying to take each day as it comes.
I experience pain and definitely, nausea every day, but I know I am luckier than some. At the moment though, nausea and the feeling of being constantly on the verge of having a migraine -- these 2 symptoms are absolutely ruining my life. I'm a PhD student so I need to be able to concentrate. Earlier my nausea / migraine feeling was so bad I tried to count the number of lumps on a tree trunk in order to focus my mind and was unable to do it, so this is the level that we're talking.
The neurologist I have been dealing with (via occasional letters! this is the NHS after all! ) has suggested I go on propranolol for this symptom. I know this is a beta blocker, because I was put on it before, a few years ago, for anxiety -- and so I can understand the logic here. But the reason I resisted staying on propranolol despite the positive effect it had on my anxiety was that it gave me terrible, consistent, insomnia. Since a good night's sleep is obviously fundamental to resisting 'bumps' or downturns in the world of fibro (I've been calling them bumps) I'm at a bit of a loss here.
I just wondered if anybody else suffers nausea and migrainey headaches, plus a feeling of sinus pressure, with their fibro or CFS and whether you took the beta blocker route and what your experience was?
Thanks a lot everyone xx