thparker13
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2023
- Messages
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- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 5/2023
Good morning everyone! I keep meaning to post this so that everyone may consider this for themselves. In the last few months I started taking quite a few supplements to see if it will help with the pain I experience every day.
I went to my rheumatologist a few months ago and it was an extremely disappointing and frustrating! I absolutely loved my rheumatologist until the last appointment. I’m not sure what changed or why he flipped and became ugly, but I was extremely hurt by it. I was literally crying in his office due to the pain and his response was to go onto an app for mental well being and take ashwaganda.
I left his office, called to find myself a new rheumatologist and looked into supplements that may help. So here we go, this is what I have found that helps me, and may help you. I got so tired of taking an excessive amount of medication, so now I’m down to pregablin 450 mg daily (lyrica) for pain and the following supplements. I also take them all as gummies since I struggle to swallow pills.
1. Multivitamin
2. Biotin
3. Magnesium
4. Nerve and joint pain gummy (found at Walmart)
5. Glucosamine
6. Tumeric
7. Zinc
8. Vitamin C
9. Vitamin D
I know this isn’t cheap, but my pain has significantly reduced and I can literally walk up my stairs without a significant amount of pain in my knees.
Please feel free to ask any questions, I’m happy to provide the brands I’ve been using and the milligrams as well.
If we aren’t advocates for ourselves, then how can things get better? I was extremely hurt being dismissed by my rheumatologist and told it’s all in my head, especially when he was such an advocate for the last year! Well, I do know it’s in my head but not the way he said. The pain we experience is real and it is a part of the brain that doesn’t signal correctly anymore. I get it, and telling me I have to train my brain to tolerate the pain seems crazy. This is obviously coming from someone that doesn’t live with pain everyday!
I went to my rheumatologist a few months ago and it was an extremely disappointing and frustrating! I absolutely loved my rheumatologist until the last appointment. I’m not sure what changed or why he flipped and became ugly, but I was extremely hurt by it. I was literally crying in his office due to the pain and his response was to go onto an app for mental well being and take ashwaganda.
I left his office, called to find myself a new rheumatologist and looked into supplements that may help. So here we go, this is what I have found that helps me, and may help you. I got so tired of taking an excessive amount of medication, so now I’m down to pregablin 450 mg daily (lyrica) for pain and the following supplements. I also take them all as gummies since I struggle to swallow pills.
1. Multivitamin
2. Biotin
3. Magnesium
4. Nerve and joint pain gummy (found at Walmart)
5. Glucosamine
6. Tumeric
7. Zinc
8. Vitamin C
9. Vitamin D
I know this isn’t cheap, but my pain has significantly reduced and I can literally walk up my stairs without a significant amount of pain in my knees.
Please feel free to ask any questions, I’m happy to provide the brands I’ve been using and the milligrams as well.
If we aren’t advocates for ourselves, then how can things get better? I was extremely hurt being dismissed by my rheumatologist and told it’s all in my head, especially when he was such an advocate for the last year! Well, I do know it’s in my head but not the way he said. The pain we experience is real and it is a part of the brain that doesn’t signal correctly anymore. I get it, and telling me I have to train my brain to tolerate the pain seems crazy. This is obviously coming from someone that doesn’t live with pain everyday!