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Old 04-16-2010, 01:12 PM   #9
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Re: Please Help: Possible FM OR Medical Mystery

F150STX, ditto what Cwooten says, especially on not letting a day go by with constipation while on Lyrica -- on **********, it documents what I experienced -- a healthy gall bladder that ended up hardened and filled with stones and severe pelvic pain. If the Lyrica people could work out those quirks... wow, what a medicine!

Also, I WOULD NOT WOULD NOT WOULD NOT let the doctor leave it at an X-ray!!! You're in pain and taking serious meds and still no help. Obviously there has to be a reason. They need to step it up in the checking-it-out department--not just hand you more meds. Ask for an MRI -- go over all the stuff you've tried and ask for an MRI. I suffered through a year of the physical terrorist after my car accident simply because the x-rays could not show what an MRI showed clearly -- a narrow spinal canal and three discs smashed up to the cord. Currently, I'm recovering from an injury/surgery that has messed with my ribs awful -- just did an MRI, and it clearly shows a bone spur and desiccation in that area--stuff not seen on an X-ray. You could have some congenital defect -- you don't have to have had an accident or injury.

P.S. Sweetlife... day two at the gym