Have Fibromyalgia? Share What Works For You!

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Thanks for the Info,I will check it out, I am not at all surprised to see Rest is the best rated. I also find a low dose of Lyrica at bedime very helpful. I have also quit smoking and I think that has helped me rest better.

OxyContin? Sheesh! Dangerous, dangerous, highly-addictive narcotic.

Recently diagnosed with fibro, I found a good deal of relief after taking the cough medicine prescribed for my bronchitis.

Turns out it has codeine in it. Sigh...

I'm not willing to become an addict, but it sure is nice to NOT be miserable.

C'est le vie!

I use herbal therapies, and the aforementioned rest, to treat my fibro.

Still, some days - like today - I am near tears with pain and exhaustion. Unfortunately, I must work for a living, so I have to just suck it up and go on.

I'm just really thankful I didn't have this when my kids were little.

I keep hearing that there's a 'sleep disorder' causing this. My question is - wouldn't you know it, if you had trouble sleeping?

Well, I don't have any problem sleeping. In fact, I sleep like the dead, so I don't get it.

My g/f just recently started taking Lamictal, said it helped bunches.

CA, I also sleep well. Or so I thought. I sleep deeply and don't hear anything. But...if you don't wake up refreshed - which is what normal folks feel - then you have a sleep disorder. That's how my doc explained it.

Thanks for the link. I take Lyrica

Thank you again, Marilyn, for providing a new avenue in an attempt to find something that works for me. As I have not yet found anything that works with a bad flare-up, I can't recommend anything.

Thank you for the info and the link. My fibro is much improved since I retired (more rest, and can lie down whenever I need to). I find symptoms are tied to fatigue, but if I take Flexeril or any of the muscle relaxers or the antidepresssants, I am so doped up, I can't get up or function the next day. My mother also has fibro, and I can hear it in her voice when she has taken Elavil. She can barely concentrate or stay awake.

My youngest daughter also has fibro, and when antidepressants were prescribed for her in high school, she couldn't get up to go to school or function on even the smallest dose. She chose to live with the pain.

I would be afraid of oxycontin. A local chiropractor told me chiropractic wouldn't help fibro. There are days when I couldn't bear the touch of a massage.

My MD said Guaifenesin "might" help, but I would get a lot worse before I got better.

Walking and exercise in the warm water therapy pool did help, but I haven't been able to do that lately.

Gabapentin caused a stroke-like effect where I lost almost all balance and muscle control in my ankles and feet. It took physical therapy and a long time to come back from that. Over a year later, I still walk with a cane.

I'd like to try acupuncture, but my insurance won't cover it. Nor will it cover ongoing physical therapy, which I found to be helpful and perhaps would get me walking without the cane.

I take vitamin E, pumpkin seed oil, flax seed oil, and oil of evening primrose and they seem to help. My main help comes from taking 600 mg of iboprohpen every morning and a hydrocodone before bedtime. If I skip either of those, it is just a matter of time before the aching sets in.

Despite the meds, sometimes the aching is just too much, and I have to lie down or stretch out in the recliner and take a nap. Normally I sleep well at night, wake up feeling okay, not even stiff or sore, but I do have trouble falling asleep some nights.

Great idea to pull everyone together to share information.

I tried the link and also typing in remedyfind.com and both took me to the Revolution Health site, which doesn't seem to be the same as what you wrote about.

Thanks, my mom suffers from this.