surgery

  1. A

    Hello everyone

    Hello, I am Ambrosia, and I suffered from chronic pain for nearly 22 years before I found a person who could treat my condition. I was abused as a child and sustained compounded injuries in my spine from being beaten on a daily basis. I developed excruciating back pain at a young age, which led...
  2. J

    Fibro and Surgeries/Illness

    :|Hi..today is two weeks since my orthoscopic knee surgery for a torn medial meniscus..I am recovering very well from the surgery..but OMG..this week the fibro has ben off the charts...I am just a couch potatoe...besides the widesspread pain and fatigue, I have the fibro brain...oh for the days...
  3. T

    New to the forum

    Hi everyone. I have been exhausted for a few years. I don't sleep well at all. I have constant pain, but particularly in my knees and lower back as well as between my shoulder blades. I was diagnosed a couple years ago with CFS. I was diagnosed when I was about 12 with major clinical depression...
  4. Y

    Hello! Just joined....

    Glad to have found this wonderful community! I'm a 40 y/o mom to 2 girls. I was diagnosed about 2 years ago shortly after a total hysterectomy and then a gallbladder removal. I never really identified what the trigger was for my fibro but I suspect it was mainly about my (previous) extremely...
  5. R

    I'm back

    Thanks for your thoughts, comments and prayers. The surgery on my ankle went extra long as the damage was worse than anticipated .(They ALWAYS say that). Anyway , I have an excellent surgeon and it went well, although I'll be off my feet 10 weeks instead of 6 .(ugh!) I went from a fat bandage to...
  6. R

    New w/ too many Questions!

    First off let me just say hello, I'm very glad I found this forum. My fiance has been recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia; and from what he says and I can see it is rather severe. His condition started several years ago after a car incident which damaged both of his wrists. He has had surgery...
  7. A

    Extreme pain in hands & feet?

    Hello, I am relatively newly diagnosed with fibro (3 months ago). For me it seems like I've been struggling with the pain and degeneration for more than 6 years. My father's name for it is "the creeping crud." I wonder if others have the same trouble I do with the pain in your hands and feet...
  8. J

    chemo and radiation when suffering

    Illnesses can cause Fibromyalgia to flair in my opinion, Does taking chemotherapy or radiation treatments cause Fibromyalgia sufferers cause :?:more harm than if they were going through such things as surgery, or trials of not so drastic of measures? Having to take chemotherapy or radiation...
  9. P

    New to Site but NOT New to Fibro or Pain

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far away... sorry, I could not resist. That is just one of my other conditions rearing its head, StarWarsNerd-itis. Hey, we have to find something to laugh about, right? Anyway, I guess this is my Fibro story... I was always an active kid. I mean, I had my share...
  10. Trellum

    Does anyone know?!

    Hi all! I've mentioned several times that I was diagnosed with a hiatus hernia recently. Well, the last doctor I saw wanted me to get a CT scan of my chest to see the hernia, since so far they just saw it when they did an endoscopy. He said after that we'd decide whether I should get a...
Back
Top