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  1. M

    Warning: Prescribed Cymbalta for Fibromyalgia

    This is a shout out to all new patients that are newly being prescribed Cymbalta for Fibromyalgia. Before I start in to those whom Cymbalta helped,( good.) But for those whom are new to this drug.....Please please please read the side effects that can happen, and the terrible road to recovery...
  2. E

    New here!

    Hi everyone! I was diagnosed with fibro, RA and Sjogrens in 2014. Am tired of medication and am looking for new ways to cope with the pain and disruption it has caused in my life and that of my family.
  3. S

    I need advice and guidance

    I joined this forum and group because I feel like I'm starting to graduate from the denial stage of what I'm starting to acknowledge as my long term life affecting issue. The pain started about 2 years ago. I was in an interesting and challenging phase of my life and had a bad habit of self...
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    • Forum: Welcome new members
  4. D

    Ibs

    Anyone got any tips. Following antibiotics 3 months ago i started getting different coloured loose stools...the for last 3 weeks i have almost constant diarreah and severe stomach pain up many nights. Then because of painkillers sometimes i get constipated but diareah always follows later the...
  5. D

    CANT WALK AT ALL...anyone else? any help?

    Those who have read my previous thread contributions will know my fibro has spiralled this last year. However hard i try walking has become impossible. I can bearable stand long enough to get to bathroom or get a drink. From the waist down it feels so rigid like all joints muscles tendons...
  6. K

    New to forum, feeling down and out by Chronic Pain

    Hello, I am a new member and wanted to share how and why I need support right now. I have lived with Severe Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue for over almost 12 yrs. I don't know if others have progressed but both my illnesses have. Furthermore, for over the past year I have had the worst...
    • keephurting
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    • chronic chronic pain comfortable confused diagnosis doctor doctors fatigue fell fibromyalgia healing leg medication mri muscle neurologist new member new to forum pain rheumatologist spasms support wanted weakness wrong
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: General discussions about fibromyalgia
  7. V

    Signs? Runs in family. Please help.

    Hey everyone. So my grandmother had fibro and I think my mother may as well. I've been researching some symptoms of fibro and have found a lot that march what I've been dealing with for 8 years, but doctors don't want to listen to me. I have widespread pain across my whole body, I have...
    • Vegsash
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    • anxiety arm back comfortable constipation depression doctors exhausted falling family feet fibromyalgia flu frustrated hair headaches heartburn leg medication neck pain please help rheumatologist rls shower symptoms tongue weather working
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Do I have fibromyalgia?
  8. 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?
  9. S

    New here - newly diagnosed as well

    Hi there I was diagnosed last week with fibromyalgia and rhuemetoid arthritis as well as bursitis in my hips. I'm presently a school bus driver but the bouncing of the seat is aggravating the bursitis in my hips. I am just starting medication. My questions are: Need to look for a new career -...
    • Selfhelp
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    • children diagnosed fibromyalgia job medication medications new job newly diagnosed questions school
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Recently diagnosed
  10. B

    Low dose naltrexone

    Anyone tried this. They did a trial study and preliminary evidence continues to show that low-dose naltrexone has a specific and clinically beneficial impact on fibromyalgia pain. The medication is widely available, inexpensive, safe, and well-tolerated. Parallel-group randomized controlled...
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