How do you deal with your Fibromyalgia pain?

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   velzipmurposted 12 years ago

   How do you deal with your Fibromyalgia pain?
   
   How do you deal with your Fibromyalgia pain? My daughter was diagnosed with it at a young age and as her mother it is hard to watch her suffer.

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   vwriterposted 12 years ago

   Fibromyalgia causes a lot of symptoms. To help eliminate my neck, shoulder pain and my TMJ I have found a low dose of Prozac to help tremendously. I've also found that it has helped me to sleep. As to the sleep, I didn't see immediate improvement, but after three months I'm sleeping great. As to the pain, I found the Prozac to begin helping within a couple of weeks with greater relief after 2 months.

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      velzipmurposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      do you know of any natural remedies? I will pass the info on to her, she has never really been able to sleep well either.

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      vwriterposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      As the others have stated, exercise helps tremendously. I exercise everyday, which include stretching. My doctor referred me to a  physical therapist who showed me some simple stretching exercises that helped to control the pain.

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   aleciajeanneposted 12 years ago

   I use prescription medications and at home treatments..
   
   For pain:mucinex works wonder's,after a week of taking it, it makes almost all of the pain go away. I also use magnesium, it helps with muscle and nerve pain, and fatigue..Encourage her to go for a walk everyday,it really does help.Stretching,Using an exercise ball..
   
   I have a hub about fms and treatments,im going to give you the make fms link because it has my other two fms hubs in it.
   
   http://aleciajeanne.hubpages.com/hub/Ho … a-Symptoms
   
   i hope it helps

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      velzipmurposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      thank you for this information, I will definitly check out your hub and will share it with my daughter.

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   duffsmomposted 12 years ago

   I think a lot of people dismiss fibromyalgia as the disease of the day. As one who suffers from it, I can say that is NOT true - it is real and it is very painful.  Mine has progressed to the point that often I can barely walk because of the pain.
   
   For me I try to get a lot of rest as I find that the more rested I am the better the pain levels are. That and ibuprofen is all I do. 
   
   I am scared to death of anti-depressants or drugs like Lyrica.  So I just haven't tried those.

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      velzipmurposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      thanks for your input, we are still trying to get people to understand and not just make fun of it and think it not real. She did say that rest helps her too.

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   Alphadogg16posted 12 years ago

   Its unusual that it's diagnosed at a you age. I don't have fibromyalgia but have given therapy to several patients that did. The idea is to manage it so she's comfortable. I actually wrote a hub on it previously. Hope it helps.
   
   http://alphadogg16.hubpages.com/hub/Wha … bromyalgia

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      velzipmurposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes it is unusual to diagnosed at a young age, she had just turned 18 when she was diagnosed but looking back she had the symtoms of it since she was about 8.  Thanks for everything.

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      aleciajeanneposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I have friend's who them and there's daughter's who have FMS,it's actually become normal for people to get in there teen's,and now almost anything can cause you to get FMS,its pretty sad that nowadays people are living with multiple diseases

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