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  1. 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...
  2. H

    Can't Get Any Help

    Doc says I have "early" fibromyalgia. I need rest to help treat this but am having awful pain on upper arm and hip while sleeping on side. Other sleeping positions don't work for me. The exhaustion is so incredibly debilitating I can't function at all anymore and stunned I haven't had a heart...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. B

    all in one week-almost pain free?

    I had to have several things done last week and i'm feeling better than I have in 6 months! 1-an EMG done (nerve testing)-Dr says sometimes it helps with Fibro 2- Shot of cortisone in left shoulder for painful bursitis in left rotor cuff (thought it was just fibro pain, wasn't...
  6. G

    Going to a Rheumotologist for the first time

    I am almost 99.99% sure that what I have has to be Fibromyalgia. I have a long history with anxiety. My father passed away in 2008 from lung/stomach cancer that was very quick less than 6 months from diagnosis and my mom passed in 2009 from early onset alzheimers. Both were 60/58 years young...
  7. B

    Accident ?

    Involved in a minor fender bender but I have had some more pain in the hip where I already hurt. Am I out of lock on seeing a doc to evaluate since other ins who was to blame says probably.
  8. B

    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...
  9. S

    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...
  10. D

    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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