Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

GreenPartyVoter

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9. I agree that there is a push to get people through, and also that

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:26 PM

Jul 2013

a) medicine is as much guesswork as science at times, and b) we as patients don't always know what to say. For the longest time I thought everybody's feet tingled, so I never mentioned it to the doc! LOL Now that is an important piece of info when added to my other symptoms, because it helps narrow down the possibilities of what might be going on.

Honestly, for all the warnings we get about self-diagnosing with internet medical sites, I think they can be helpful in telling us, "Hey, that thing you thought was normal? It's really not!"

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Anybody here with fibromylagia? [View all] hedgehog Jun 2013 OP

Expense? The stuff is still on patent Warpy Jun 2013 #1

is she taking lyrica? mopinko Jun 2013 #2

I think she's taking something for the fibro, but not an SNRI. hedgehog Jun 2013 #3

No problems taking them but Cymbalta is hell to get off of. DevonRex Jun 2013 #5

I had to go off of it when it broke me mentally. It was the reason I was GreenPartyVoter Jul 2013 #7

Yes. The pain at night was terrible. DevonRex Jul 2013 #8

I agree that there is a push to get people through, and also that GreenPartyVoter Jul 2013 #9

Is she on amitriptyline at night? (generic elavil) DevonRex Jun 2013 #4

No _ I will suggest that to her. hedgehog Jun 2013 #6

as bad as ssri's dcfibro Dec 2013 #10

As it happens, it seems to be working for her - but I think there may be more than hedgehog Dec 2013 #11