awesome!!

OMG!! i guess I should have scrolled more abd then went back to depression...I DIDNT know there was a forum for chronic pain!! D'uhhhhhhhh. Sometimes I think I look for my brain to reconnect it, but it has shrunk //2 OH well, it is just me.

I have a question? It just keeps going thru my head as I sit here on the bed with pain that moves and muscles that twitch and cramp and a screaming pain in my lower body...what does it feel like to be pain free??? Please can someone give me something I can dream about or think of?? I am falling apart and I have more than a week before the nuero. I don't know. I thought about emailing my dr and asking for pain meds but since she took me off the other meds, for the neuro, I would loathe myself if i held up testing for my selfishness.

Now I feel stupid and feel like I am rambling...ughh, I can't win for trying. ~ Melanie

It feels wonderful to be pain free - even though I do not get to many of those days where there is no pain..... but right now I am feeling good and after two weeks of enormous pain I will enjoy today - for it may not come around again for some time....... I have RA & Fibro btw.

And as far as Pain Meds go - I would not be living what life I have if I did not use them - so by all means call your doctor and get some thing for your pain - do NOT suffer any longer so you may enjoy the life you have been given.

OMG, it is something new now...with out the tegretol for one week and the elavil, i am 'quaking'...it is like the whole inside of my body is trembling like an earthquake. It is making we jerky in my movements and I am getting inappropriate emotions...I mean last night I could not get up off couch, my legs, knees didnt want to work and all I did was laugh even after moggles helped me up and i stumbled into room and onto bed. I couldnt stop laughing. Then later I was morose and depressed and sad and I just read a post I wrote last night and I am MAD, it doesnt make sense...and now I have the unpleasant task of trying to get county hospital to part with medical records on me...futile at best

*sigh* i didnt know how bad i was, the meds DID keep stuff in some control...and that is sad...melanie

some of those symptoms could definitely from withdrawing cold turkey.

did you go cold turkey off these meds? I sure hope not! good luck and feel better soon!

I did go off meds cold turkey! Dr. said no more as of thursday, 12-27. I am feeling a bit better, but i am still quaking and having problem with my eye, but i think i am thinking a bit more clearly, i think. But any amt of housework leaves me feeling breathless and feeling like my legs wanna fall off for any period of standing and just folding clothes leaves my arm feeling same way. i go to neuro for 1st appt. We shall see what happens adn what tests they will schedule me for...ugghhh. melanie

Have you ever tried stuff from the health food stores??

They have liquid vitamins that would absorb quicker in your body which can be helpful with the immune dsyfunction associated with Fibro.

They have other natural remedies that may help with your pain too.

I don't know the name of all of them but I know they exist.

I am having a bad FM(Fibromyalgia) day. I had a knot in a muscle on my arm. I massaged all day. It popped! Now my whole arm feels like a big bruise. I used some pain spray I have that has menthol in it, all natural ingredients, and it helps. Also, that spray that physical therapists use to stretch muscles..cannot remember the name...works good too.

Let me know how you're doing.

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Ocean*

Fibro/Myofasical Pain Syndrome/Carpel Tunnel/TMJ/etc SURVIVOR!

My doctor, though I told her codiene and vicodin don't work on my pain, still prescribes it...I dunno why it is that way when there are so many other things she can try at her disposal. So I am taking the neurontin and I am itching like crazy and I don't want to say anything because it seems like all I do is complain. On top of all that I woke up with a painful headache once again behind my right eye. I just want to break down and give up. I told moggles I don't want the mri, or more meds, i am just useless and they are a waste of money seeing as how nothing working...and i am not really worth all the effort going into this endeavor so why keep up the charade that something good will come of this?? Why get hopes up?

melanie