Hi all,

Just an update...thanks to all who read and reply. My latest round of bloodwork showed a few atypical lymphocytes, doc ran more tests for CMV and EBV and they were negative. So with the swollen gland, I have no idea what's next. Overall I have been feeling better...no IBS or bladder problems to speak of...ongoing yeast issue though. My GYN will love me next month when I go back.

Pain has been better, thankfully, but I'm going to have to quit my aquatherapy for financial reasons. Maybe some of the land stretches I've learned will carry over or something. I've started with pain that feels like TMJ but I don't know if it is or if it's ear related. I just don't know anymore.

I'm pretty depressed right now anyway over various issues and when I get that way, I get more worried about my physical symptoms and what if there's still more serious stuff going on, especially with the current gland situation.

I'm just pretty tired of everything right now and wonder if I will ever feel normal again, I'm only 32, single, no kids, no boyfriend, feeling very lonely and sick.

hello there, i just wanted to give you a shoulder to lean on. thats why i love this board because we can vent and no one will judge us. we all know how each other feels.
anyways it does suck being young and in our shoes. i am 31 yrs old but can remember having pain from a young age.
i hope you get to feeling better,
your friend,
robin:wave:

Thank you! It's great to have a place for support and understanding. Sometimes I think my friends and family really don't get it at all, and think I'm just a hypochondriac. So you had pain in your early years? How so? I did as well, looking back...

L.

fmgirl sorry your feeling bad....hang in there! Life gives us ups and downs just to let us know who is in control. Remember when you were little and rode a really fast elevator and it made your tummy tickle and you would have to giggle......well that's what you need to do when life is going up and down so fast.....just try to giggle your way through it! Hope you feel better.

Glojer

I feel that way sometimes, too. I didn't have too much pain when I was younger, but I was fifteen when I first got sick--seventeen now. It does feel hopeless sometimes, and one of the worst aspects is being sick all of the time--both from the fibromyalgia and the many viruses that I get.

I've had TMJ pain for a while, now, but I haven't found a way to get rid of it.

The way I see it, though, or at least, what I hope, is that we'll get a cure--or just a relatively good treatment, one that works well, within the next five to ten years. I think about that, and I keep holding on to hope :]. Maybe it's juvenile or naive, but it gets me by, some days.


I'm sorry that you're sick. It's bad enough having this illness without having other problems, too.