I am 50 and just graduated with my 4yr degree a few weeks ago. I was diagnosed with fibro about 6 years ago and probably had it for about 4yrs before that. I am so exhausted all the time and I can't stand the pain. It has been a struggle to get through school. The only thing I have found that has helped at all is vicoden and I'm only allowed 2 per day. It wears off after a little over 3 hours. Hardly enough relief when I'm going to school full time, studying when I get home and then working on weekends. To top it all off, I have to fight to get the pain medicine!! Today my doctor gave me Mobic to try. Has anyone used this yet for fibro and how did it work. I have tried all of the usual meds that everyone has talked about on this site and nothing but the vicoden has helped somewhat so far. I start my masters program this fall and those will be 10-11 hour days and I'm frantic to feel better and find something that will work, 2 pain pills a day just isn't going to cut it. Thanks for any help anyone can give.

Drs. know that Vicodin is short acting. You certainly have the right to ask for a medicine regimen that will give you more pain relief and say you really have a full plate. Say you are asking that they look at what can be done to give you either more Vicodin or something else so you can pain relief and quality to the days you are putting in with school. It is reasonable and you have to be assertive and matter of fact and keep asking until they do something. Hope this helps in some way.Soleil

Maybe it is time to try another dr. Apparently your dr. doesn't understand the kind of pain involved w/Fibro. A pain mgmt. dr. would be a good place to start since their primary goal is to get your pain under control. If for ins. or financial reasons you can't go to another dr., then all you can do is state as strongly as you can that you CANNOT deal with the pain you have and go to school and stress how much you want to have a functional life, but the pain is unbearable and eating your energy up (which is what it does). Good luck to you.