MarMarDub
New member
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2016
- Messages
- 3
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 01/2016
- Country
- CA
- State
- ON
I just saw my GP for a follow-up, because the amitriptyline I was taking was not helping my pain or fatigue at all.
She repeatedly questioned "my mood" and I'm so damn sick of her insinuating that this is all caused by depression. When I'm having a good day/days my mood is perfectly fine. When I'm so exhausted and in so much pain that I can't leave my room, yes, my mood is terrible. I expressed concerns about taking Cymbalta, which she had suggested, but she completely dismissed them and prescribed it for me anyways. She refuses to prescribe me anything for the pain and told me I should just continue taking the massive amounts of Tylenol I'm already taking - which provides very little to no relief. She then proceeded to tell me that fibro was just something I would "have to learn to live with."
I'm just so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I'm in too much pain to work full time, too tired to go out with friends, I've pretty much lost touch with my whole social circle and I'm lucky my job lets me work my own hours but it's not even close to enough to pay the bills. There is just nothing about life that is pleasureable anymore. If this is what I'm going to have to learn to live with then honestly it doesn't seem worth it.
I really want to find a doctor who will understand that being in constant pain and so exhausted I can barely see straight is not something you just learn to live with. It's something you take steps to try and fix, you try and give someone their quality of life back.
She repeatedly questioned "my mood" and I'm so damn sick of her insinuating that this is all caused by depression. When I'm having a good day/days my mood is perfectly fine. When I'm so exhausted and in so much pain that I can't leave my room, yes, my mood is terrible. I expressed concerns about taking Cymbalta, which she had suggested, but she completely dismissed them and prescribed it for me anyways. She refuses to prescribe me anything for the pain and told me I should just continue taking the massive amounts of Tylenol I'm already taking - which provides very little to no relief. She then proceeded to tell me that fibro was just something I would "have to learn to live with."
I'm just so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I'm in too much pain to work full time, too tired to go out with friends, I've pretty much lost touch with my whole social circle and I'm lucky my job lets me work my own hours but it's not even close to enough to pay the bills. There is just nothing about life that is pleasureable anymore. If this is what I'm going to have to learn to live with then honestly it doesn't seem worth it.
I really want to find a doctor who will understand that being in constant pain and so exhausted I can barely see straight is not something you just learn to live with. It's something you take steps to try and fix, you try and give someone their quality of life back.