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    New and discouraged

    I am a 60-year-old California lawyer, diagnosed a couple of months ago. My husband has advanced Alzheimer's and I suspect the past 5 years of caring for him has taken a pretty big toll. I have tried Cymbalta, Trazadone and Ambien but nothing has helped yet. I cannot remember sleeping through...
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    Fibro or something to have checked out? I feel like a hypochondriac!

    Does anyone ever feel like a hypochondriac? How do you know if its just a new fibro flare up or something you should have your doctor review? If I went to the Dr. every time I had a sharp pain in the gut, or random pain in my spine I would be living at the clinic. I feel like I don't know what...
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    No Sleep Need Help

    Hi All I'm new to this. But I'm asking for help. I haven't slept in 3 days cuz I have hurt so bad. I lay one side that hip hurts, I roll over nope can't do it that hurts. Well I will lay on my back guess what...my back is killing me. I have taken my pain medicine. But my flare up these last 3...
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    Hello All

    Hello. I'm new to this forum but unfortunately not to Fibromyalgia & CFS. I have also had spinal fusion and TMJ replacement on both sides. I have had this since 2010. Most recently I have been diagnosed with thinning bones. I was on a daily infection for that (Forteo) it made my fibro flare and...
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    newbie feeling sorry for myself

    Hi. I'm Rochelle. Just joined this forum as in the middle of a particularly bad flare up and feel the need to reach out to others like me. I have been diagnosed for 12 years now and really hate this crippling condition that has taken so much of my life already. I have had to change jobs because...
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    • Forum: Welcome new members
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    Stones and magnets

    Hey everyone, It has been a year since I've been at this forum. Yesterday I really needed to vent since I've been having a huge flare up for more than a week now. With my exams coming up next week I locked myself in my house, tried to study and write some papers, but it has been frustrating...
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    Hello, My Fibro Story

    I have been looking for a good forum for quite some time now and very happy to have found this one! I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia after the birth of my first child in 1988, I was 20 years old - however - I have suffered from this pain as early as my pre teen years. It didn't start out with...
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    • Forum: Welcome new members
  8. Cheryl Ann

    worried

    I'm worried about getting a flu shot. Many of you have talked about having large swellings at the site of the injection. I have some new (new to me) autoimmune disease that they haven't identified yet. It causes extreme swelling. My GP said he thinks it has to do with my synovial tissues...
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    • Forum: Moan, complain and vent
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    How long?

    When you speak about flare ups, how long do they last?
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    Advice needed going forward

    Hello everyone I am new to the group and I found you all online because Sunday I had another flare up and it's going on Tuesday and the pain is honestly excruciating. I was diagnosed in 2008 with Fibromyalgia and it comes and goes but when it comes it comes hard and painful. I can't walk, I hop...
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