Hello,
I've joined this site as I'm having a difficult time at the moment and don't know what to do next. I was diagnosed in October after struggling for nearly 5 years and a doctor finally listening to me! Even though it was such a fight to get diagnosed and start getting treatment, I'm now...
Well. I have learned not to mess with a good thing! Last month I went and saw my doctor and asked her if we could try Lyrica instead of Nurotin which I have been on for a little over a year. She agreed to switch the meds up.... okay this is what happened :oops: ..... After a few days of taking...
Grab a snack this could take a while.
I'm 38 years old. Male. A Medically Retired Navy Helicopter mechanic. I have had two microdiscectomy/laminectomy surgeries along with the removal of disk material from L4-L5 and L5-S1. I suffer from chronic back and leg pain and have since 1995 when I and...
Okay so.... I have had pains in my joints in the past and my doctor gave me blood tests which came back clear so he just sent me away with naproxen.
Over the past several months, the pain has been getting worse (mainly in my fingers, hands and wrists)
I found info on fibromyalgia on the...
Hi everyone im new to this page. Im 24 with two beautiful girls and been with there dad for 7 years now. I wS diagnosed around 2 months after having my 2nd child. After a long conversation with my doctor she suspected I may have had it all my life aftef talking about my past. I am really really...
I am not happy with the GP/Neurologist I have been working with since August. I won't go into details, but it basically comes down to the fact I don't trust her anymore. I asked to be taken off of Savella, and she said ok let's try Fetzima instead. It is almost an identical medication AND it...
Hi everyone at the moment I'm lying in the lounge trying not to cry because the pain is so bad and I know there is nothing I can do about it. I had a poo test and it showed I have no E. coli at all in my bowel and also none of the good bacteria and an over growth of that is bad so the suff they...
Hello group,
I was diagnosed this past October with Fibromyalgia and Interstitial Cystitis (IC) I am taking a medicine for my IC that seems to work ok but I am having problems with medicine my dr has tried prescribing for my Fibromyalgia. I am allergic to most narcotics so I have tried...
As many of you know from my former posts I am dealing with high cholesterol and finding I can not tolerate the extra joint and muscle pain brought on by the different statin medications. Each one I use lasts a good 5-6 days and then the pain is unbearable and I end up quitting the drug.
My...