RuchieLove! FIBRO!? NOT YOU TOO!!!!!
10/03/04 12:13 PM
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jenX
Reged: 08/11/03
Posts: 3252
Loc: Richmond, VA
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I'm sorry to hear you've been "bitten by the fibro frog" as LS put it once. that is awful. but at least you're on to something with the diagnosis. let me know how the Rhumy visit goes, will ya?
as for the sleep mask, how's that helping? i bought one but can't use it 'cause it puts too much pressure on my nose. (stupid, i know, to those of you without fibro, but these things can be terribly painful to us!) i know LS loves hers, though, proving that fibro is different in all of us!
most of us, though, don't get a lot of help from pain meds. things like Alleve work on inflamation, which we don't generally have. fibro is about misfiring nerves. it unfortuntaly requires heavy duty drugs and they often don't work, or work for long.
i switch up my pain meds a lot. i have a prescription med that i take on my bad days, but sometimes take mega-doses of Excedrin. i also have migraine meds for those days. (i hate the migraine days!)
my saving grace is my Skelaxin. it's a non-drowsy muscle relaxant and it can really help a lot.
morning stiffness.... uck. i have that. when i get up in the morning, i feel about 100 years old. i can't bend my legs and my toes and feet are all cramped up. i usually limp for about 1/2 hour when i get up. a hot shower usually helps, plus some gentle stretching after. usually, though, i can't put my heels on 'til i get downstairs 'cause even after the shower and stretching i am too stiff and wobbly to get down the stairs in heels. (ridiculous!)
keep posting about fibro, Ruchie. hopefully we can help. LS and Linzy were a great resource for me when i started. if only Linzy would stop using the British names for meds, we'd be great!  (paracetamol is basicall aspirin, in case you wanted to know! but somehow it works better. i have my friend in England bring me some when she comes to visit!)
SMOOCHES to you, Ruchie!
*jen
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