Hi, Melinda. Welcome to the forum. I am kind of new here too, but have already found a wealth of knowledge and support from some really great people. Everyone that has either responded to a post I've written or responded to someone else's post writes like they are very close friends that live down the street from one another. That is the level of empathy and sympathy I have seen in the men and women on this site.
And you are not alone. Although it was only three years ago that I was diagnosed, I had the symptoms for several years beforehand. And I do not feel like I have made any progress so far in getting the fibro to a manageable place. So being in pain, having so much to do it makes you tired just thinking about it, and needing to be active but being unable to get to the place where you are
able to be active is something I am sure most of us can understand! Just keep doing what you are doing. Take it slow. Rest often. But keep going.
I know most or all of us here understand discouragement or downright depression. For many reasons, some as a direct or indirect result of the pain I am in everyday, and some that have very little or nothing to do with fibro, I get depressed very easily. My mom called me "a naturally melancholy person" because I was always so serious even as a little kid. The weird thing about me is I am the absolute best person to deal with a crisis. In the heat of the moment, I am all over what is going on. Give CPR to a possible heart attack victim until EMS gets there? No problem! I can do energy sapping and arm breaking compressions for 15 minutes. A drive-by shooting? No worries. I have the kids in the interior bathroom in the tub and the phone calling the police. And I caught the make and model of the vehicle. But a large-ish pile of laundry? Now THAT
completely overwhelms me! Sometimes to the point of tears! I know. I am a little crazy... okay a lot crazy!
But I am harmless AND housetrained!
I am sorry you have asthma as well. I do not know how that feels, just how people I know who have it describe it. I can see where the meds you have to take for your asthma and the meds you would need to take for the pain, inflammation, etc for fibro would really clash. You must have to walk a very thin line there.
I do hope the new doctor will be useful (So many are
not these days!) and helpful.
I have found out very quickly that this is a safe place- to learn, to offer things that you have learned, to vent, or to just read other people's stories, struggles, triumphs and- to know that you are not alone in this. I hope you have a good rest of the day. ((gentle hugs))