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Reply: Silly question!

You guys are awesome!!! Not only am I getting some wonderful ideas for easy...

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Silly question!

Ok...so....this is a really silly question...BUT....after the way the last 2 weeks have...

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Reply: Any tips for dealing with Fibro Fatigue?

Thanks for the ideas BetteK! Just yesterday I was thinking that I desperately needed to...

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Reply: Finger Pain

Hi DebraBrooks! I will say that I have regular pain in my hands and have just about...

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Reply: I'm so tired of being tired.....

Thank you all for the words of encouragement. I need to just take a break from it...

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I'm so tired of being tired.....

I'm quite frustrated with myself. It's been about three and a half years since i was...

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I need some advice....

My mom was diagnosed years ago with FM. I was diagnosed 3 years ago with the same...

Posted by sssfletcher

My mom was diagnosed years ago with FM. I was diagnosed 3 years ago with the same thing. My mom is constantly telling me that she thinks that what we have are two different things, that she is not convinced of my diagnosis. I have a family friend physician who is not convinced that my symptoms line up with FM and encouraged me to have an MRI to check for MS - which I did a few months back and it came back clean. My husband is insistent on me seeing a neurologist - he is not convinced that there is not more going on either. I am totally exhausted over the whole thing - I just want everyone to stop hounding me so I can move on with life! I feel like I'm trying to keep everyone happy! This is not something that I do not talk to anyone about. I don't share my diagnosis or struggle with ANY of my friends - they are completely unaware. I do not complain to my husband or mother ever - but I see my husband 'catching' me in painful moments, and I am so embarassed by it. I need some opinions / advice....I need to know if there are people out there with a FM diagnosis that are dealing with the same symptoms as me.....or if I should pursue a second opinion. Is what I'm experiencing 'normal'??

Along with terrible joint pain, I cannot tolerate the heat - my body swells (mainly from the thigh down) severely - to the point of not being able to wear shoes. I will literally have no ankles on a warm summer day. Exercise increases the swelling.

When this started three years ago I wasn't able to walk down the stairs from my bedroom - I would use heating pads for hours to allow me to slide slowly down the stairs on my butt. My ankles touching in bed would just about send me through the roof with pain. This intense pain lasted for about 4 months after which it calmed down and never got that severe again - but the joint pain affects me every single day - my head if turned in one direction for any period of time, will get literally stuck there.

I am constantly fighting hives and red warm itchy patches on my body - legs, hands, abdomen.

I get winded so easily - the smallest tasks put me out of breath

very painful to roll over in bed or to get up from a chair - always - it doesn't come and go - it is constant. Not only do my legs swell when I've been sitting too long but they forget how to do what they are supposed to. I was using my left arm to push my leg forward at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago - I couldn't make it go - it's so embarrassing.

My balance is off - I will fall over if I close my eyes in the shower. I cannot walk through a store without pushing a cart for fear that I will wobble into something.

I can't make my hands grip things - it's not really a matter of strength as much as they just don't seem to cooperate - my mind says to grip tightly and my hands don't do it.

Things like not knowing how to turn a water faucet on or spitting my mouthrinse on the floor because "time is up" are driving me crazy!!

When I look in the mirror parts of my face, through my vision, will be almost vibrating / wiggling....

I don't know .....I guess I don't even know what answers I'm looking for on here - I'm 38 years old - I feel like so much of the 'physical' part of my life has been taken from me - and yet my mind is out water skiing and hiking with my kids. I don't know who to ask for advice or where to turn with this. Is this FM? Do these symptoms fit into my diagnosis? Am I grasping for hope that it's something else that is fixable?View Thread

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Reply: does anyone else have a strong heartbeat (not fast...

Thanks Squarley!! I think you are right.....seems that when I am preoccupied with...

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Reply: does anyone else have a strong heartbeat (not fast...

nothing...i take absolutely nothing!!

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does anyone else have a strong heartbeat (not fast...

For about a week or so now, from the time when I wake up, I can constantly feel my...

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