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Mother-in-law from hell

I've had fibro for many years, but, I've been dealing with the worst flare uup that I've ever had. I'm so sick...

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Frustration with FMS

I am frustrated with FMS and the pain. I am trying to live with it day by day but I am now at the point...

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I totally know what you mean, its just so depressing that at my age I have this to look forward to, for...

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I put coconut oil along with a little organic lemon juice and ginger in my mug of morning tea. The lemon...

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fibro +

I had the flu the end of Feb as it went away here cam infection. I called my Dr and they put me...

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fibro +

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GeorgieGirl72, I have felt the same for many years....I have just changed my life with Limu ....I have been...

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Limu

I have fibromyalgia amand have lived with the pain for many years. I have taken so many different meds and...

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Reply: got hypothyroid and think i have fibro

Caleb....the thyroid issue may be the reason for your voice change...it's very hard to determine of it's the...

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Diagnosed with fibro but my symptoms don't seem to...

I was diagnosed with fibro several years ago. First the top of my head and roof of my mouth started...

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I was diagnosed with fibro several years ago. First the top of my head and roof of my mouth started tightening up, then my head was getting hard to turn from side to side. Then my upper back started to spasm up so tight it was choking the blood supply to my head and face and all I could do was flop on my stomach and try to relax so the spasm would stop. No amount of stretching would release my upper back. The toe nails on my big toes were turning bluish black. After 2 years of that I finally pulled my head forward and down as hard as I could to try to stretch the upper spine and I felt my upper spine finally pulling apart like it had been gummed up all around it. It came loose enough to stop the spasms and my toe nails cleared right up. My upper back spasms were cutting my blood supplies off. I'm still really tight in my upper spine and all around my wing bones. The connective tissue all over my back top and bottom, is so tight I can't tolerate laying on my back. Now my lower spine is all tightened up between L5 and sacrum. The left side right next to my spine is tight from top to bottom and into glutes. When I drove I had to hold myself up when I went around corners because it seemed there was no base to my butt to keep me from going sideways. Finally went to phys therapy and in trying to loosen the left side of sacrem the guy actually loosened something in my butt so when I turned a corner my butt was able to hold me up instead of using my hand. This is so bizarre! I'm going to a girl who does skin rolling so I can try to sleep on my back. She said I was tight and there were 4 layers of muscle to go thru. I'm exercising trying to strengthen my spine and stretching my shoulder blades. Making small headway. Can lay on my back on the floor now but not in a bed. Down to 3 1/2" of memory foam over a bedboard and is still hard to lay on my back. Was told by girl at massage that some of the muscles around my shoulder blades are contracted and don't release. She's trying to strech them. Is this fibromyalgia? I'm on meds for sleep and depression. Anyone ever heard of these symtoms?View Thread

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I was diagnosed with fibro several years ago. First the top of my head and roof of my mouth started...

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Fibro Flare Ups

Hi, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia for two years. I have recently moved back to Baton Rouge, LA and...

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would thank you for the info. i guess it can get wores over time .

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Tranquility Reduces Symptoms

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Reply: IC and, Fibro

Bladder pain is diffently the worse pain, along with everything eelse that goes on. Since I last wrote stated...

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I've been dealing with fibro for 6 years already. Sorry to say that these doctors are all full of it. I...

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Hello; I too am diagnose with fibro. I guess I'm not the one to ask advise from because, I too am finding...

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Fibromyalgia

Hi, my name is Leanne. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia twenty years ago. I am really interested to know if...

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Fibromyalgia finding a dr

I live in Marinette WI and have Fibromyalgia. My problem right now is that I can not find a doctor that will...

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Debbie, hang in there. I'm a 70 year old woman and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia this past summer. My headache...

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Debbie, in the next few days I will be starting a regimen that is supposedly going to change things for the...

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Reply: Driving and fibro pain

I have had a job opportunity like that recently. By the time i got there, on the first day i could not work....

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Help...Please Idon't want to be crazy

I have had Fibromyalgia for 31 years, now all of a sudden everything is falling apart, 3 months ago I was...

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Question on Fibro

I do not have fibro, but very severe atherosclerosis. Reading the description of Fibromyalgia, it...

Posted by DeadManWalking57

I do not have fibro, but very severe atherosclerosis.

Reading the description of Fibromyalgia, it sounds somewhat like a vascular condition in which the capillaries of the muscles can not get enough oxygen, on an ongoing basis, so they hurt.

I must eat a very low fat diet, or it will bring on strong chest pain in 4 to 24 hours. So of course, I don't do that to myself. I found out the hard way in having something I thought would be ok, once a year for four years. Four for four tells me it will happen again, so I don't do that.

I had bypass surgery, but was left with another dozen inoperable blockages.

My question is as to whether any people with fibro have tried an extremely low fat diet such as I do, plus it is very high in anti-oxidants, green tea and pistachios, and pomegranate juice.

Blockages worsen when LDL cholesterol is oxidized, and taken up in immune cells that have tried to fix artery damage. In the case of fibro, this could be in muscle capillaries. High and frequent anti-oxidants in the diet would reduce this, or possibly eliminate it if LDL is low.

Green tea and pistachios, and exercise, help stimulate EPCs, stem cells for artery repair. This prevents new blockages.

Pomegranate is 1) a strong anti-oxidant; 2) an enhancer of function of good cholesterol to remove excess LDL, as does exercise; and 3) it causes blockages to slowly release oxidized LDL, shrinking them and improving blood flow and delivery of oxygen to downstream tissue.

The first year after bypass surgery, I had sharp point like pains in my heart 8 to 10 times a day or so, as if spasms in capillaries caused bits of muscle to be short of oxygen for 2-10 seconds or so. But with time, and my diet and exercise habits, these became fewer and fewer. Now they are rare.

I wonder if anyone has tried such a diet for some months to see if they find improvement, or if any might be willing to stick this out for a year or more. I have been eating this way for 6 and 1/2 years, and I am mostly pain and angina free.

Low stress is also important, since that causes increases in blood pressure that can damage circulation, which sets up new blockage sites.

I do forget lots of stuff, so that might be where I have my new mini-blockages. Bu my heart is doing ok, and no fibro.View Thread

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I can give you my email I have 4sons and 3 grandsons I have not been able to work now for 5 yrs and I...

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restandbehappy1 I applaud you! I also find long walks help. I either walk or go on the treadmill everyday....

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Reply: Different Fibro Pain

Its the fibro!!

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It will take time but, I promise you that it will get better. You will have more good days then bad. There is...

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