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    Book recommendations requested

    I'm a reader. So when I was first referred to a rheumatologist, my first reaction was to do research. Now that I've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I'd like to know what books you've read that have helped you understand the illness as well as how to live with it. (I'm not afraid of medical...
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    Massage cause extreme pain

    Hello all, Although I still have not been diagnosed with fibro (at this time doc just keeps claiming it's myfascial syndrome) I had yet another incident that makes me think that I may have fibro. Being that my doctor hasn't given me any guidance or direction on how to manage my "myofascial...
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    newly diagnosed, feeling lost.

    Hi all :-) I have only just been diagnosed (2 weeks ago) with fibromyalgia, and to be honest I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around and accepting it. For the last few years I've had ongoing hip and leg pain following a car accident and numerous tests have shown no answers, leading to...
    • tor6
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    • angry anxiety back diagnosis doctor early fibromyalgia frustrated headaches hip how to ice job learning leg leg pain lost massage muscle newly diagnosed pain pressure scared spasms symptoms tests
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Welcome new members
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    I cant remember....

    My memory has been getting worse and worse lately and it has now hit the point where I am saying things and then forgetting a few minutes later. I am repeating myself constantly and feel like I am annoying everyone I am close to. I am a senior at my work and forgot to brief my PR staff at the...
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    Docs always telling me there is nothing wrong

    Hi - am new to this forum ... apologies for short sentences or phrases... too tired to type more - now it's 2am in my morning here - have had insomnia and fatigue for last decade and recently pains got worse. Went to do checks and scans and all, specialists and docs all telling me there is...
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    First Pain Clinic Visit(need advice)

    I was diagnosed with fibro in February 2015. I was also diagnosed with severe anxiety and a couple other things. I currently take Cymbalta 90mg, Flexeril 10mg, Mobic 15mg, and Ambian 10mg. Ambian does not in any way help me sleep. My panic attacks and constant body pain keep me awake no matter...
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    Burning pain

    It's a lovely summers day here in the UK. I am at a complete loss as to how to fight this illness anymore. The last year has been so awful....burning pain, deep aching, stabbing pains muscle weakness head to toe almost everyday.....not an inch of me spared. I've also got interstitial...
    • diamond
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    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Moan, complain and vent
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    How to deal with joint pain at a standing job?

    Hey guys- I'm new and this is my first post, but my fibro diagnosis is not new. I got diagnosed when I was 12 and have been learning to deal with the constant pain since. I'm 19 now and am trying to be a productive, functioning adult but it's hard. I work at a job where I have to be on my feet...
    • erylab97
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    • crying diagnosis feet fibromyalgia foot pain how to insight job knee learning pain rest work
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Chronic pain
  9. The Grim Creeper

    So many people here

    When I read your stories I know them all as I read them. I'm gonna share this for me, maybe because I need to. I've survived nearly 20 year with undiagnosed fibro and was diagnosed last month. The struggle brought me to the edge of giving up on life many times but thank God I'm still here...
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    Random pain

    I was diagnosed as "probably" having Fibromyalgia last October when i mentioned my aches and pains and anxiety and IBS to my doctor. He, however has no real experience with treating fibro so I've been trying to wing it on my own. My symptoms now are: overall fatigue joint pain unrelieved by...
    • glm777
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    • advice anxiety back constipation daily diet doctor exercise fibromyalgia how to ibs info meds men pain symptoms
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Do I have fibromyalgia?
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