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Muscle Pain
A MyFibroTeam Member asked a question 💭

Do you get muscle pain that feels like a really deep bruise, very similar to getting a good punch (dead arm) .
I get it spontaneously in all different muscles ..
If so what medication helped, I got started on amitriptyline.. not really helping

posted January 11, 2020
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A MyFibroTeam Member

@A MyFibroTeam Member, how long have you been taking amitriptyline? Have have you been taking it daily, or just when you have pain? It has to be taken daily and can take up to 6 weeks to work. If you have been on it daily for 6 weeks or longer and it’s not helping any of your fibro symptoms, talk to your doctor about weaning off of it. Do not just stop taking it if you’ve been on it awhile, it could cause withdrawals.

I take calcium and magnesium for muscle cramps.

posted January 11, 2020
A MyFibroTeam Member

If it not helping, why take it. Have a chat with your doctor to see what other options are available for you. Anti-inflammatory drugs should help. Tumeric tablets/capsules are very good too.
Hope you find relief soon.

posted January 11, 2020 (edited)
A MyFibroTeam Member

Yes arms and legs

posted January 12, 2020
A MyFibroTeam Member

@A MyFibroTeam Member, I would give it at least 2 weeks. I was put on cymbalta in 2014, after about 2 weeks I could tell my anxiety levels came down. Unfortunately that’s all it helped with but I stayed on it just for my anxiety....but after 2 years it stopped working. I went thru hell getting off of it. My doctor weaned me but he weaned me too fast. In 2017 I went on Remeron (another antidepressant) because my anxiety was bad. It worked OK for my anxiety but not as good a cymbalta
I did feel better though, no side effects like the ones I got from Cymbalta. I didn’t want to go back on an SNRI (cymbalta) unfortunately the remeron I started in the fall of 2017 isn’t working as well. Now I have to wean off that and try a new antidepressant, I’m thinking about trying amitriptyline. It’s in the same class as remeron. I would love not to take anything, I really don’t like taking antidepressants, but that’s the main thing doctors put you on for fibro. They don’t help with my pain and all the other lovely symptoms from fibro, but they do help my anxiety.

posted January 11, 2020 (edited)
A MyFibroTeam Member

Yes! All you have to do is press down on me lightly on my legs and my skin feels bruised. That’s exactly the feeling. Never a bruise there though. So odd.

posted January 11, 2020

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