I am sorry you are hurting so bad right now,Originally Posted by Tom W
It hit me shortly after I watched something happen that traumatized me real bad when I was about 8 years old. The fibro is bad enough but my main problem most of my life has been clinical depression. It took many years to finally find a med that really helps me, I am far from "normal" but the med keeps me out of the hospital under suicide watch like I was 1 or 2 times a year for a few years. I am also bipolar, suffer from PTSD {post traumatic stress disorder}, bad IBS, very low self esteem, and I can't handle stress very well, my mind gets over loaded real easy and almost shuts down, I can sometimes get to the point where I get tunnel vision and I just sit and shake. I have problems sleeping at normal times, as in sleep at night and be up all day, its like my internal clock is all messed up.
I was amazed when I was told that allot of this stuff is part of having fibro. It took till I was in my early 40s to figure out all this stuff started way back when I was so traumatized as a little kid. I won't go into all the details but what happened was I saw a 12 year old boy fall into a huge pit and fell 100 feet and was killed. So this one day when I was 8 years old pretty much messed up the rest of my life so far, I couldn't handle school and quit in high school, I am a recovering alcoholic, I put myself into treatment in 1988, {been sober ever since}, could not hold a decent job for any length of time. I have been on disability for about 9 years now.
Probably more than most of you want to know about me and I am not sure why I even brought it up. Probably because I have been hurting so bad the last few days because I have been over doing it working around the house and the garage trying to get things done before it gets to cold here to work outside.
Wow, I had no clue that some of those things were part of Fibro. What a horrible trauma to go through at such a young age.Originally Posted by Tom W
Probably more than most of you want to know about me and I am not sure why I even brought it up. Probably because I have been hurting so bad the last few days because I have been over doing it working around the house and the garage trying to get things done before it gets to cold here to work outside.
That's so weird mine started when I quit cigs and got worse when I went on the BC Depo Provera. I'm just waiting on my insurance to come through with my new job to get things properly diagnosed.Originally Posted by Crt
I'm so sorry Tom. I was recently referred to a rheumatologist for possible autoimmune disease and he mentioned my symptoms sound a lot like fibromyalgia. What is really strange is that my symptoms didn't really become apparent until I quit smoking about a year ago, after smoking for many years. All of a sudden my body felt like it had turned on me and belonged to someone else. Allergies and hives first then extreme fatigue, muscle and joint pain, IBS, depression/anxiety, Reynauds Phenomonon. My senses of touch, smell and taste were affected as well. I've decided on my own that my body is reacting to the lack of "junk" it was fed through cigarettes.