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Health Boards I am new here-  
07:01 16-Jun-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 199]    By: Unnamed
Hello, I am not sure if I have fibro. or not, but I have felt like a train wreck the past year. Had several tests, nothing shows. I feel horribly exhausted all the time, aches and pains, neck i...
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Health Boards What do I have?  
00:18 16-Jun-08   [Replies: 13, Views: 279]    By: Unnamed
I have been having weird pains lately. It started out with a dull pain three inches to the left of my belly button which spread to my back. I had an ultra sound done, was fine. My lower back was ...
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Health Boards Nocturnal muscle spasms in legs  
21:44 15-Jun-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 84]    By: Unnamed
Hello, everyone, For the past few nights, I've been awakened by pain my calf muscles. My foot goes into a contortion and gets frozen there. The pain is almost unbearable. I looked at my cal...
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Health Boards Nerve pain  
19:45 15-Jun-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 88]    By: Unnamed
Just wondering if anyone has nerve pain as their primary/only symptom? Following a bad virus in December, I started getting tingling/nerve pain/muscle twitching in my hands, feet, arms, and legs (...
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Health Boards Accupuncture Anyone?  
16:55 14-Jun-08   [Replies: 5, Views: 139]    By: Unnamed
Hello Everyone, I hope everyone is having a low pain day. Someone mentioned accupuncture ( forgive my spelling, not good before the brain fog, awful now) and said it might help my fibro pain. An...
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Health Boards prednisone + how long before it starts to work  
11:23 14-Jun-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 86]    By: Unnamed
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Health Boards I finally went to a physiatrist yesterday  
09:47 14-Jun-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 149]    By: Unnamed
I was given good news and bad news. The good news was that he said he can help me. The bad news: In addition to fibromyalgia, I also have myofascial pain syndrome and bursitis. So he gave me 4 ...
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Health Boards Fibromyalgia topic on Discovery Health tv channel  
23:27 13-Jun-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 62]    By: Unnamed
For anyone who missed this program , it will repeat again this Sunday June 15th , June 21 and June 28th. This is a morning program, time which will differ where you live. Discovery Health Ch...
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Health Boards New to Fibromyalgia and I don't think my doctor is really helping me  
21:27 13-Jun-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 280]    By: Unnamed
I was diagnosed a year ago but have had the pain for a little over 2 1/2 years. I was diagnosed by three different doctors. (Primary, Rheum., and an orthopedic surgeon) I have four kids and do...
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Health Boards Share your dosage of Zanaflex please for FMSers  
10:29 13-Jun-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 62]    By: Unnamed
I was questioned by my Neurologist office about the dosage of Zanaflex I am currently taking (12mg). The Nurse Practitioner made the statement that this was a high dosage. I thought I had seen tha...
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Health Boards Anyone try TENS Unit therapy for fibro muscle pain?  
22:09 12-Jun-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 116]    By: Unnamed
My Rheumy has prescribed a TENS unit for me. Has anyone with fibro tried this and if so, can you share your experience with this? A TENS unit is electrical stimulation used for pain manageme...
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Health Boards Painfully loooong update since first visit to new rheumy  
15:12 12-Jun-08   [Replies: 11, Views: 240]    By: Unnamed
As some of you might recall, I was very excited about an upcoming appt with a new rheumatologist, back in May. In have been in seclusion ever since. My "usual" depression got much ...
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Health Boards I've tried Lyrica and its worked well  
14:45 12-Jun-08   [Replies: 11, Views: 242]    By: Unnamed
My doctor has recently started me using Lyrica and I can tell that it is really working. It took sometime to figure out what is the best medication but after all the different prescriptions this ...
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Health Boards Tramadol  
08:42 12-Jun-08   [Replies: 5, Views: 127]    By: Unnamed
Hi, everyone, I've been given tramadol from doctor 50mg to try for pain, had to literally beg and cry for them!!![ how demoralising] anyways been taking two a day, only problem I've found is tha...
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Health Boards I don't know why but this helps me so much  
07:58 12-Jun-08   [Replies: 5, Views: 150]    By: Unnamed
For the past few months I have taken phentermine (a perscription weight loss medication) but I have taken it sporatically. My husband kept pointing out that I seemed to feel so much better when I...
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Health Boards Sleep jumps and trembling  
16:03 11-Jun-08   [Replies: 8, Views: 179]    By: Unnamed
Hi All Again i ask for your help, advice, reasuurance etc. For the last few weeks i have experienced what i call sleep jumps, as i am drifting off to sleep or asleep ( well as much as a de...
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Health Boards fibro and weight gain  
08:27 11-Jun-08   [Replies: 9, Views: 224]    By: Unnamed
I am scared to say how much weight I have gained since my battle with fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. I have always been below 140, and know am no longer their. I just saw a picture of me, the pic...
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Health Boards Does fibromyalgia affect numbing of a tooth?  
08:26 11-Jun-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 263]    By: Unnamed
After a bad experience with having a tooth extracted I switched dentists. The first one failed to get a tooth numb but pulled it. The tooth was abcessed so I understood what happened but he should...
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Health Boards pain  
01:19 11-Jun-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 97]    By: Unnamed
how can i help reduce the pain in my legs and forarms are really bad and swallon thanks tammy ...
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Health Boards open for suggestions  
15:07 10-Jun-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 79]    By: Unnamed
I'm not sure what to do.. I have fibro and RA. I take 2 Cymbalta,2 Lyrica,2 naproxen a day. Along with loratab when needed. Before going to the Rheumo that dx me with Fibro and RA. I did'nt know ...
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Health Boards Is there any hope?  
01:11 10-Jun-08   [Replies: 5, Views: 145]    By: Unnamed
Hello, My husband and I have been married for 19 years and have three children. In 1993 at the age of 25 he was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia..Needless to say we have seen our fair share of Doct...
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Health Boards Heat, humidity, muscle spasms, headaches, pain  
20:27 9-Jun-08   [Replies: 8, Views: 226]    By: Unnamed
Hello, I haven't posted here in ages, though I read every day. It is 95 and humid these past few days, and I am just sick all over. Intense muscle pain in neck, shoulders, arms, legs, bac...
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Health Boards Lung Problems with Lyrica  
12:30 9-Jun-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 163]    By: Unnamed
I started taking Lyrica the end of January. Within about twenty minutes after my first dose I was having slight difficulty breathing, tightness in my chest, and, later, coughing. I continued tak...
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Health Boards Do ya'll get lots of trouble with circulation?  
10:12 9-Jun-08   [Replies: 1, Views: 74]    By: Unnamed
I know I here about the numbness in the face and about some tingling in the area where pain is but I seem to get a lot of this when I lay in one position too long (my shoulders down to my fingers ...
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Health Boards Newbie Here... I have not been diagnosed yet but I have some concerns.  
01:07 9-Jun-08   [Replies: 35, Views: 1171]    By: Unnamed
I have been suffering with what I think may be Fibromyalgia for a little over a year now. It all started out with muscle fatigue when walking, sometimes just across the room, or lifting my a...
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