How am I? Very frustrated at the moment. I was diagnosed with fibro several years ago, but then I had a time of minimal fibro misery--maybe because I was on a cocktail of all sorts of psychiatric drugs (?) I also have Bipolar II. Now I'm having facial pain (atypical trimengial neuralgia) and have been put on Trileptal. Meanwhile, I was taken off all my meds except Klonopin for various reasons.....I started having spine problems and have received further disgnoses of cervical degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis, and carpal tunnel in both wrists. My orthopedist said, though, that some of my back, leg, and arm pain was likely related to my fibro. But I have been told I can't go on any of the drugs for fibromyalgia, because of the bipolar and the interference with the Trilpetal, even though I am really having a flare-up. I take Tramadol and acetiminophen, but they ain't cuttin' it....

Thanks for letting me vent!