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Hi Zep and welcome to the family. It is natural to grieve when first dx'd with fibro, it is a life changing dx. People with fibro have a low serontonin level is why your doc recommended you go back on anti-depressants.   Read the fibro 101 thread, second thread, it contains lots of great helpful info.   I was on amitriptyline when I was dx with fibro for anxiety which is an anti-depressant but it also helps with...

Hi Zep24 and welcome to our fibro family! If you haven't already, do check out fibro !01. It is the top of the page 1 and has a lot of good information for the fibromite. Exercise is so important. It helps relieve stress, build muscle and helps keep you becoming more stiff and achy. I enjoy walking, working out with resistance bands and small hand weights. The trick is to start out slowly and pace yourself. Overdoing could lead to a...

Dagger, I have an ostomy and when things aren't going smoothly, grape juice really helps me.  I get Welches concentrated grape juice and prepare it.  I'm sure your granddaughter would like that and it could help her.  Things like rice and bananas are very constipating.   If she doesn't improve, she should be seen by someone.  I had that problem as a small child.  When I had...

I had this in one hip when I first got fibro. I had a cortizone shot and it worked. I haven't had trouble since. Hope you get some relief. I remember it hurting so much.

thanks for the replies and giggles (Sue, I actually did LOL, and dh looked up and asked what was so funny ;) ) ~Michael, dh and I are actually in the market for a new heater, so thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into those. ~Patsie, I have a really hard time with foot pain right now too, hence the double socks. We have ceramic floors, and when I felt the cold through my slippers, it made my feet ache something fierce. Those socks...

"I reckon they'll start aiming properly pretty quickly if they're responsible for cleaning their own messes." Now, I thought that too...but no such luck...I've got dear hubby and two teenaged sons and let us not forget their wonderful friends...so when I haven't been able to clean as much these past couple of years (side note: I think we should add another symptom to fibro - woman whom normally have a...

Oh Mrs. T.  You see, fibromites have a distorted sense of perception and often times mistake an orange for a soccer ball and vice versa.  Our eyeballs sometimes roll around in their sockets giving us the illusion that things are in motion when they really are not.  It's really quite common to think a regular house cat is a mountain lion...or bobcat, as the case may be.  You are not an idiot,...

We made it to the weekend again and I hope everyone is able to get in some relaxing and peaceful time. With the Christmas holiday season coming up we all seem to get busier and busier. So one thing we do need to do is take great care of ourselves. So, if you are going to pamper yourself so you can survive this busy time of year, what will you do? Take a short nap each day? Maybe a hot shower after the kids are in bed. No kids so life must be...

Mamanan - I love the north, but sometimes I just feel cold. My solution is a good heating blanket, which I use only to pre-heat the bed, and my little tiny hot tub. The hot tub is one of the little triangle ones for 2 people and it fits in a small space in my bathroom. I'm not one of those people who like to go out in the snow and freeze their hair off. I don't even have a huge bathroom, and it fits in a corner. Once I get my body...

Hmm, I am wondering if snuggling with my buffalo would help??    Sue