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I've been in a "flare" for well over 8 months, I dont seem to be getting better. I've changed the whole way I eat and have a hard time lately keeping positive. The last couple of months have been beyond difficult. I fell like I get worse everyday and the areas that are swollen or red and inflamed the day or week before, still pain me, causing more daily difficulties. Fibro fog seems much worse, sometimes I feel like I'm drugged and can't talk, the words I say come out jumbled. It's near… read more
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Members opened up about experiencing prolonged flares that have lasted months or even years, sharing how chronic pain, debilitating fatigue,... Read more
@A MyFibroTeam Member - so sorry for what you are going through. I turn 60 next month. So hard to believe. Up until 50 I was in great physical shape. i worked out 4 times a week. i was muscled and toned. Then i was hit with breast cancer. 3 years later my mom died with breast cancer. Then along comes fibro. Now i feel like I'm a hundred. My life was on a downward spiral until i found Christ 4 years ago. Thats really the only thing that keeps me from being depressed. I get down and i get frustrated but with Him I still have joy. I just turn to Him when i get overwhelmed and He lifts me up.
Hi just wanted to say I'm dealing with exactly what u all r going through right now too :( I've had Fibro since 1998 but no soo bad until the past 3 yrs. :( I will be 60 in Nov. & the Depression I'm dealing with right now is so Hard to except & try to Live everyday :( I lost my husband to Liver Cancer in 2011---I was ok the first yr after--but then in Aug. 2013 I woke up shaking & so upset I had no idea what was happening to me :( I didn't tell anyone until I could no longer deal with it---so in 2014 my primary dr. said I had "Depression" which was part of Fibro---he started me on Pristiq which I couldn't tell if it helped or not! :( So then he sent me to a Psychiatrist & now I've been so messed up with this Depression & tried so many different Meds that I'm so ready to give up :( But with my relationship with Jesus Christ I wld never try to take my own Life :( Now the other thing I Lost my Mother in Oct.2015--she was 92 yrs old & had Dementia :( I'm the baby girl out of 6 children & I never was blessed with any children :( so now all alone trying to deal with the Depression & Fibro I just don't know how to deal with Life right now :( :( Also, my Pic is of my Mother for Mothers Day---I miss her sooo much---I neeeeeed my MOMMA soooo much right now!! :( :(
I feel the same as you.ive been like this since Thanksgiving. My faith gets me thru one day at a time. This too shall pass. This group is very helpful. Find someone that you can talk too especially on those unbearful days. His to you
I'm also going through the same thing. I've been in a "FLARE?" up for about 3 years. It's horrible. The pain is bad but the chronic fatigue is way worse for me. I'm seeing a Psychiatrist and a therapist. It may not help with the fatigue but it sure helps with my mental health. Good luck. And Gail, I'm so sorry for all the losses and pain you've suffered. God bless you and try to hang in there. I have days when I don't want to live. Not that I would ever do it myself. But I just want to lay down and never get back up. Then my next thought is my 10 year old and how I have to be here and do my best for her.
I understand the feeling. I have been off work for three months now because I was totally burned out from the pain, chronic fatigue and migraine. Stressdoesn't help either. Even being off work I don't get many good days. I have to take a lot of pain medication to control the pain and keep the chronic headache under control so it doesn't turn into a migraine. The only thing that works for me is fiorinal. Probably a factor in being more tired and the brain fog but better than suffering from a migraine or constant flare up. Hoping to have better days ahead.
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