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LOL!! Looks like we're going through exactly the same thing!!!!  Hm, I'm trying to find an answer for you about the eating to stay awake. Maybe cook something else that will make you have to stand at the stove? Or clean the kitchen, rearranging pots or dishes (something that does not require bending)??
I usually just fall asleep. I've always said I want to figure out a way to eat and sleep at the same time. Usually I'm too tired to eat. I can't tell you how many times I've ordered food and then just fallen asleep ebfore it came. My poor BF has had to answer the door so many times like, I didn't order this...!
The biggest prob is going to occupy yourself somewhere while there's stuff on the stove and you FORGET.  Guilty!!
Sorry I don't have the answer, but if I figure it out, I'm going to post it here first!!
~nelly~
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I was doing caffeine for a while. But then it stopped working.
I'm going to ask at the HFS tonight when I go. Maybe there is a supplement to help me stay awake.
I'm constantly trying to stay awake! I end up eating in order to drive to the grocery store so I can make it there safely!  There's got to be a better way!!!!
I ALWAYS forget stuff is on the stove top. I get distracted so easily. Someone e-mailed me and I was going to e-mail them back. But I had to use the loo. While I was in there I thought about what I was going to write back. When I got out...I totaly forgot and never e-mailed the person back  At least I know I'm not a ditz...I have fibro fog! LOL
I always felt I was different. And like I was missing pieces of life. That so many things just went over my head. Now I'm starting to see...it was all true!  But there are also parts of life I see that many people don't get to...so I'm lucky  
Thanks for your positive attitude Nelly...it's contageous! *hugs*
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Tissy I could have wrote your dang post! Well this is something to think about!!! I have the sleep issue BIG TIME and the hit by a truck feeling all the time anymore. I don't have a problem walking, but I can't just stand for long periods becuase I feel like I am just going to drop!
I have had a headache almost everyday for two months. Excedrin Tension pills are never far from reach. BLlAAAAA
I am probbably just overreacting. I don't know! It has been in the back of my mind for awhile! But I don't have realy bad joint pain like I thought you had to have. WEll My hip hurts and my neck and shoulders hurt alot of the time, but not my knees or ankles or any of those kind of joints!
What do you guys think?
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I have been called lazy most of my life!!! I am just so tired all the time!! I mean I feel like there is something in my brain dragging my eyes down! Like I am in some daze! I want to do alot of things but the energy is hardley ever there. Then like yesterday I got this huge burst of energy did a ton of things and then felt like crap! I had to drag myself through today and NOW I can't sleep!!! My Neck between my shoulder blades is killing me!!! My hip feels like someone is driving a nail through it!
Sorry to be busting in on this guys! Hope you don't mind!
YIKESA!!!!!!
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I would def get it checked out. Go to a rheumy or a pain specialist.
I would also check out www.fibrohugs.com
I think they have a section that differentiates between chronic fatigue and fibro. If not, get back to me and I'll find out where I saw it.
How long have you had these symptoms? Do you have constant pain in the places you mentioned? I wouldn't rule fibro out....the most import. thing is when the doc touches certain spots it will feel tender if you have fibro.
How long have you the fatigue?
*hugs* I hope you don't have EITHER of these dreaded diseases! But if you do...you've got a great group of friends to help you out!
Love ya! Ruchie
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So I went to WF tonight. They recommended Ginseng 1st choice. When I mentioned I couldn't have it cause it interacts with my meds....the woman there (GREAT gal...spent a whole hour with me the last time I saw her there!) suggested taking a Vitmain B Complex. She also suggested Doc. Pellegrino's (sp) product: Fatigue to Fantastic! Yep! He has his own product out there. He even has his own Vitamin B Complex. I am planning to check it out and make sure I can take the B supplement with the other supplements/meds and take and then I'm headed back to WF to buy it!
Has anyone else heard anything for fatigue?
I also got a detox tea...it is the most delicious tea I've ever had! (I'm a tea-a-holic!) It has milk thistle, green tea (decaf) chicory root, dandelion root, and a few other ingredients (what you want me to get up and look...ok, fine!) Oh, right, it has red cloves and Brudock root. It's YUMMY! Better than chocolate 
Okie dokie...off to bed (it's about time...it's 11 here!) *sigh* When hubby works late I forget what tiem it i....
Night night!
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Re: Well DANG!!!
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Research it on the web! Here's a site that explains symptoms: http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/
~nelly~
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I don't think there are many of these kind of doctors. I'm fortunate I live in a city that has pretty good medical care.
This doctor is right down the road from my house----I could walk to his office, if I needed to! And there is a 2nd phsyiatrist in the office too! He is in a spine center with orthoapedic surgeons, if that helps you. Maybe you could call an ortho clinic and see if they know of one.
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I think you should get checked out by a doctor. The pain tends to migrate around the body most days for me anyway. So you may not feel like all your joints ache. I do have a mild achiness that is always there but nothing I would even take notice if I didn't know about Fibro. I do however get frequent headaches that won't go away, and a pulled muscle kinda of feeling that migrates around my body. Like one day it feels like I pulled the muscle btwn my shoulder blades, then another day it will be a knee, or butt muscle, etc. But mostly my shoulder and neck muscle bother the most. I can't wear things w/ a big collar b/c it feels like a ton of bricks is hanging on my neck and it ends up giving me a tension headache or migraine.
Go to your doc and let us know what happens.
Christie
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I almost forgot about those symptoms. I also bruise extremely easy, ringing in ears, flashes from cold to hot and back again, and mouth sores.
Wow it is so great to able to identify w/ someone else with all these weird things that happen to us from Fibro.
Christie
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