cheers

[brightlotusmoon]

Two things that always put a smile on my face:
My husband telling me, among other things, how much he loves me.
Metaquotes shelling out the funniest entry in some time.

Adam suggested that I avoid the Cymbalta and go for a prescription strength muscle relaxer, like Flexeril, or an OTC pill like Aleve, for the days when the pain really flares up. For every day, I can always just take my herbal-supplement cocktail.
I don't even know why I went to the doctor's. I have been dealing with this chronic pain for years it seems, never batting an eye. But last week was full of flare-ups, and I decided it could not hurt to get a doctor's opinion. Maybe a nice, one word diagnosis. For example, fibromyalgia, or something like that (even though that condition is a bitch to diagnose anyway). I have taken Flexeril, and I liked it, and it did work for all-over pain and for muscle spasms, and hell I already have every single symptom of fibromyalgia anyway, I might as well say it.

*head in hands*

And thanks to the Metaquotes post, I now know that Mercury is in retrograde. That probably has nothing to do with my pain issues, but you never know.

Comments

[fadingmemories.livejournal.com]

Oh.. my... NOW I see............. suddenly it all makes sense now. *shakes a fist at mercury*

[whordorable.livejournal.com]

I know your situation is different, but my husband has chronic back pain and distrusts meds in general and he actually liked Flexeril.

[ronin-lethe.livejournal.com]

gah. i have been turning over how to say this and have it not be rotten but i can't figure it out so i am just going to say it.

fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of *exclusion*. having the symptoms aren't enough. you need to rule out a HUGE number of other things before you can say, yes, this is what i have. my sister, who may actually have fibro, has gone through *three years* of poking and prodding and tests and consults and shots in the spine before the doctors finally said MAYBE this is fibro. muscle relaxers don't help. opiates don't help. she has to drug herself unconsious just to be able to stay alive some days.

don't misunderstand. i'm not saying you don't have it. i'm just saying that, after watching what my sister went through, i think you really need not to jump to conclusions unless you have been tested and re-tested and observed and watched and poked and prodded and so on.
and i really do want you to be tested for lupus, just so *i* can stop worrying.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
I appreciate this. I actually still don't know much. A voice of reason is something I'd prefer, anyway...
Love you.

[hilarina.livejournal.com]

i have taken Flexeril and might as well have been taking air, it did nothing, kind of felt like a tiny shred of Valium.... but if it worked on you before, go for it!

i like aleve...

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

My bestfriend has long suspected she has fibromyglia but lke you said, it's a bitch to diagnose. She keeps getting told she's faking it.