moxiemom
New member
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2016
- Messages
- 1
- Reason
- Undiagnosed
- Diagnosis
- 01/2006
- Country
- US
- State
- NY
I'm new here. I was diagnosed with RA 7 years after I started having symptoms in 2007. I started having relief but then I began to have pain again. My SED rates (inflammation) were perfect so my Rheumatologist started changing my meds. Nothing worked for 2 years.
One day a student working with my doctor (teaching facility) pressed on the fibro trigger points and it was wildly painful. My doctor didn't want to change my meds or try anything new so I changed doctors to someone I could work with better.
This new guy started to explain fibro to me and suggested I have been dealing with fibro flairs and not so much the RA. He said there are only 2 ways to treat fibro: more exercise and better sleep. I take 120mg of Cymbalta and 50mg trazadone. I've tried Lyrica and it worked for a few weeks and then stopped working all together.
I have a 14 month old who still wakes up once a night to eat. My husband and I trade weeks getting up with her but I still only get a few days of 6-hours solid sleep at a time. I can sometimes hear her wake eventhough my husband gets her.
I am pretty tired every day. I have lots of pain everyday. I am forced to take naps about 3 times a week from fatigue. And my memory!! I feel senile! I know this will get better once the baby sleeps through the night again but I don't know when that will be.
I am a shell of my former self.
What has worked for you? Help
One day a student working with my doctor (teaching facility) pressed on the fibro trigger points and it was wildly painful. My doctor didn't want to change my meds or try anything new so I changed doctors to someone I could work with better.
This new guy started to explain fibro to me and suggested I have been dealing with fibro flairs and not so much the RA. He said there are only 2 ways to treat fibro: more exercise and better sleep. I take 120mg of Cymbalta and 50mg trazadone. I've tried Lyrica and it worked for a few weeks and then stopped working all together.
I have a 14 month old who still wakes up once a night to eat. My husband and I trade weeks getting up with her but I still only get a few days of 6-hours solid sleep at a time. I can sometimes hear her wake eventhough my husband gets her.
I am pretty tired every day. I have lots of pain everyday. I am forced to take naps about 3 times a week from fatigue. And my memory!! I feel senile! I know this will get better once the baby sleeps through the night again but I don't know when that will be.
I am a shell of my former self.
What has worked for you? Help