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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 281887" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">Thank you for the replies. I saw my Dr today and she is ordering more blood work for various other Lyme tests that don't normally show up on a regular run of the mill Lyme test/Western blot because those came back negative. I will get those new tests tomorrow morning. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">She also prescribed for me a non-drowsy flexeril called Amrix. I also was given a month's supply of Cymbalta to try out. I needed the AD anyway and cymbalta is supposed to help with the accompanying symptoms of fibro - so it's like I'm a test subject I guess. Which I don't mind in the least as I am desperate to find something that helps.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">And lastly, she ordered me to go have (I think it's called an) EMG (electromyography) to test those nerves and muscles in my legs and feet. I think that will be sometime next week. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">She hasn't ruled out sending me to an RA doctor, but she'd like to see how these tests and medications come out first, as she doesn't believe it is RA. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">In the meantime, she wants me to cut out all sugars and crappy carbs and stick to whole grains and fruits and veggies - organic if possible. This will be a trick, because I've been so short on cash that I've been shopping at PriceRite, where they don't sell organic<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sick.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sick:" title="sick :sick:" data-shortname=":sick:" />. So, I will have to buy myself a few things and keep them away from everyone else. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">My Dr has ruled out the pesticides as a cause that have been used in our home since they are dry and we haven't been fogged in over 2 months, ample enough time for any lingering effects to have dissipated by now. Also, my pain began before the exterminator ever came to our house.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">Her final comment was "You definitely have fibro, but since the pain you're experiencing is mainly in the evenings and mainly in your lower legs and is so intense, I think there is something else going on as well".</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">Janet, I have been taking those epsom salt baths and they definitely help. But I find that they really do incapacitate me to such a degree that I can't do them during the week. I mean, I sleep like a bear and can barely get out of bed and when I do, my feet hurt so bad I feel like I may fall over. Ouch. I think I will shoot for at least two on the weekends and maybe earlier during the week so I can be well rested for morning. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">So, we shall see. Thanks ladies. You're wonderful.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 281887, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]Thank you for the replies. I saw my Dr today and she is ordering more blood work for various other Lyme tests that don't normally show up on a regular run of the mill Lyme test/Western blot because those came back negative. I will get those new tests tomorrow morning. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]She also prescribed for me a non-drowsy flexeril called Amrix. I also was given a month's supply of Cymbalta to try out. I needed the AD anyway and cymbalta is supposed to help with the accompanying symptoms of fibro - so it's like I'm a test subject I guess. Which I don't mind in the least as I am desperate to find something that helps.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]And lastly, she ordered me to go have (I think it's called an) EMG (electromyography) to test those nerves and muscles in my legs and feet. I think that will be sometime next week. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]She hasn't ruled out sending me to an RA doctor, but she'd like to see how these tests and medications come out first, as she doesn't believe it is RA. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]In the meantime, she wants me to cut out all sugars and crappy carbs and stick to whole grains and fruits and veggies - organic if possible. This will be a trick, because I've been so short on cash that I've been shopping at PriceRite, where they don't sell organic:sick:. So, I will have to buy myself a few things and keep them away from everyone else. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]My Dr has ruled out the pesticides as a cause that have been used in our home since they are dry and we haven't been fogged in over 2 months, ample enough time for any lingering effects to have dissipated by now. Also, my pain began before the exterminator ever came to our house.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]Her final comment was "You definitely have fibro, but since the pain you're experiencing is mainly in the evenings and mainly in your lower legs and is so intense, I think there is something else going on as well".[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]Janet, I have been taking those epsom salt baths and they definitely help. But I find that they really do incapacitate me to such a degree that I can't do them during the week. I mean, I sleep like a bear and can barely get out of bed and when I do, my feet hurt so bad I feel like I may fall over. Ouch. I think I will shoot for at least two on the weekends and maybe earlier during the week so I can be well rested for morning. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]So, we shall see. Thanks ladies. You're wonderful.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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