i am healed, thank you jesus

not
thank you modern medical science. thank you to the doctors who wondered what sleep was for and pursued it in the face of people who thought they were nuts.
okay, i'm not completely healed. but i have fixed my sleep, and the symptoms of my fibromyalgia are about 95% under control. i have gotten so much better so quickly that my family was worried that i was on some sort of manic swing. as i sit here, i have no pain anywhere. my mind is clear. i woke up at 7 this morning, wide awake and happy to greet the day. i am practically bursting with energy.
2 months ago, i was considering applying for ssi, because i was so sick i could not drive a stick shift car or sit in a chair without excruciating pain.
i started taking trazadone, but have switched to neurontin. the traz was bothering my stomach, and adding edginess to my currently edgy personal situation. i had been on neurontin before, and it helped for a while but bombed out after about a month. also taking skelaxin at night, and as needed when muscle pain erupts.
but the really important thing that has helped is good sleep hygiene, and especially getting a grip on my husbands snoring and apnea. raising the head of the bed, getting a snorer's pillow, and using those nose strip things has gotten him to where he is sleeping pretty peacefully. he has an appointment with a sleep doc, but it takes a month and a half to get in.
i'm pretty sure that his sleep was the main reason the neurontin bombed, although i think it was also swamped by my rheumies pushing of pain meds that do me more harm than good. the muscle relaxants work very well for pain for me.
so, yes, i am still sick. i still have lupus, fibro, and am falling apart in a few other ways. but i finally have effective treatment, and answers. for the first time in my life. and i am well enough to get fit!! i feel reborn.

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