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    Retaining an attorney

    Hi all, I think I mentioned I was denied for SSD at the first and second level. So now I have retained an attorney to help me at the ALJ hearing. He claims he is working on a contingency basis in which case he will get no money if I lose. I find that hard to believe that an attorney would...
  2. Lana

    is it hard to keep working

    How do you keep working? I had to quit my job I tried my best but couldn't do it anymore. Doctors say keep working but it seems impossible. How do you keep going at work? is it getting to much for you to? I would like to here your story.
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    Hello from Arkansas

    Hi! I'm about to turn 25 but suspect I have had this since 19 when I had a riding accident that screwed up my back. I just thought I was weird for having pain when my arms and legs were touched, even by clothing. Now that I work for my GP I have asked her about it and she said classic fibro...
  4. E

    Newly Diagnosed & Feeling Hopeless

    Hi guys, my name is Erin. I'm 21 years old, recently graduated from college, and am working at my doctor's office. For the past few months I've been feeling fatigue, all over body pain, dizziness, heat flashes, and an increase in migraine frequency. At first I thought it was Graves Disease, as...
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    newly diagnosed

    Hi I am Chai I be ending dealing with this fibro for two years now and just now getting help. I did not know what bit was til now they have me on the highest dose of neronton and it is not working .I was a full time collage student and full time work plus with a two year old. I am so lost and...
  6. K

    Frustrated

    I am sitting at work in pain like any other day and tired. I went for my 6 week check up since starting Gapapentin up to 1200 mg a day now but I told him I was still in pain in one area each day so guess what he up the dosage now when I am finished I will be up to 2700mg a day does that seem...
  7. J

    Become your own ADVOCATE as much as possible

    I learned this a long time ago, thank goodness....doctors spend so little time with us and we leave their office knowing almost as much as we knew when we went in. Firstly, request copies of your labs....learn to study them and understand them. Address the highs and low range labs...those...
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    New & Confused...need some advice

    A year ago my dr said he thought I had fibromyalgia ...I didn't believe him - I just didn't have the symptoms. (I had a left hip replacement and a right knee replacement) I went to him a week ago and told him I was a mess. I told him I was SO depressed - the antidepressants I was on aren't...
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    Do We Take Alternative Medicine Seriously?

    I was looking at an older post with this subject and it is closed, so I could not add my comments. I take A.M. very seriously. I've been working with alternatives/complementary/holistic medicine for about 25 yrs..I do all I can to avoid conventional medicines...I just had to take a abx...
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    Greetings From Tyler

    Hello community. Hope you all are doing well and fine. My name is Tyler Wilson from California and I am working as massage therapist, helping people to get rid from their chronic pain, tensions and stress. Hope my knowledge would also helps you all members.
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