back pain

  1. PattiD

    Anyone else expierience extreme upper back pain

    I've been having extreme pain around my spine. From mid-back up to the top of my shoulder blades. At times its like having a binder clip squeezing my spine. I've tried heat, cold and light massage. I have even tried mild stretches. If I move the wrong way suddenly it takes my breath away. I...
    • PattiD
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    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Chronic pain
  2. K

    Work and Fibro

    Hi all, I have been having tingling sensation on my body. It all started when I had anxiety while I was having lower back pain for a couple of months. Now I am taking nortripline. 20 mg and keep working as a full time teacher. I am coping with it and some days are better but some days are worse...
    • kiukit
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Recently diagnosed
  3. K

    work and fibro..

    Hi all, I have been having tingling sensation on my body. It all started when I had anxiety while I was having lower back pain for a couple of months. Now I am taking nortripline. 20 mg and keep working as a full time teacher. I am coping with it and some days are better but some days are...
  4. P

    Car accident need advice

    Hello everyone, I have had fibromyalgia since 1996. I am the mom of seven children and began having some symtoms in 1986 after the birth of my son but wasn't diagnosed til 96. I get horrible chronic migraines also and have a hard time sleeping. On 3/25 I was in a car accident. I was rear...
    • PamVater1
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: General discussions about fibromyalgia
  5. L

    Thank You

    I want to start out by saying thank you to all of you. I have been reading through this forum for a few days now and I can't tell you how thankful I am to have found you and how helpful this site has already been. Now for my story........ In late November I started with Severe debilitating...
    • Lorlynn
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    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Welcome new members
  6. J

    Need Help - at a loss

    Hello everyone. This is my very first post! I have an appointment (again) with a rheumatologist tomorrow so wanted to get some advice. My GP thinks I may have fibro. So this all started back in July 2014 with what was back pain. Did chiro, got a little better, then got bad in my legs as...
    • jennab
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    • advice back back pain diagnose diagnosis emg fatigue headaches help! hip looking for men mri muscle neck neurology pain rheumatologist shoulder story stress tests wanted wrong
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: General discussions about fibromyalgia
  7. TwoDimes

    Probably a Question that Many Ask

    Three times now I have been diagnosed as having Fibromyalgia. I, for a specific reason, just cannot accept that all that is going on for me is strictly Fibromyalgia. I do have most of the symptoms for Fibromyalgia and none for Chronic Fatigue. I, though, also have had severe/excruciating lower...
    • TwoDimes
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    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Chronic pain
  8. L

    Red hot face and swollen ankles

    Still no diagnosis my GP thinks it is FM. Does anyone get a red hot face, hot thighs, general hot sweaty feeling. And or swollen ankles. 3 months ago I had a general sick feeling, very uncomfortable all over with swollen ankles and hands with a really heavy feeling on my chest and back making it...
    • LiLi
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    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: General discussions about fibromyalgia
  9. S

    Stopping BCP and Stress Triggering a Flare?

    I have always suspected I may have fibromyalgia but in a mild form, never been diagnosed yet. I also have hashimotos but levels are controlled by Armour Thyroid. Anyway this last month I went off birth control and had some severe worry and stress I've had these pains that have moved around my...
  10. J

    I think I might have fibromyalgia

    Hi all. I am new here. I have been thinking that I have fibromyalgia. I went to my new primary care (nurse practitioner) and told her that I thought I had it. She sent me for blood tests (all normal but sed rate was on high side) and that was that. I asked for a rheumatology referral and...
    • Juki
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    • anxiety back back pain depression exhausted fibromyalgia hip job medication men neck pain pcp referral rheumatologist sleep sore tests work
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Do I have fibromyalgia?
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