Reply #34: in the same boat [View All]

I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia a couple of months ago.

For me it's my neck, shoulders, elbows that seem to be the worse. But also thighs/hips and restless legs. And then there's that back-of-the-head pain that feels like someone stuck me with an ice-pick.

Been through Physical Therapy, chriopractors, TENS, pain meds and all of that -- hasn't helped. Either pain meds don't touch it at all -- or they make me loopy to the point where even though I still hurt - I don't care... la-la-la...drooling in a corner....

I'm often seen walking around work with a "hot pack" (sort of a portable heating pad) around my neck and shoulders. It helps a bit, but not much.

Feeling like you've got the ache-pains part of a flu-bug for most of the time is not fun. When the "exhaustion" part of it hits - my arms feel like 2-ton lead weights.

When it gets really bad, best I can do is to take a hot shower, pop a couple of tylenol-PM's and hope for sleep.

Started up over 10 years ago -- and the doc's first said it was bursitits, then pinched nerves, next it was something else that I can't remember, followed by carpal tunnel and on-and-on.

Cold or wet weather on the way seems to cause the worse of the flare-ups, I usually know when it's going to rain/snow and how bad about 3 days before a storm hits.