| Re: Stiffness is killing me! Help please!
You have fibromyalgia....I take tramadol and percocet and at night i take flexeril 20mg. Stay warm. You can heat up a long rice sock in the microwave and drape it around your neck. warm baths help. My achiness is just in the morning and when the weather changes. Very rarely does it last all day for days at a time. I feel so sorry for you. My pain was worse at onset than it is now. How long have you had fibro? Make sure you take malic acid and magnesium. I couldn't believe how much this helped me. do some gentle stretching because if you don't move around it could cause other problems like chronic myofascial syndrome. You may want to get a referral to a pain mgmt doctor. i hope i helped and that your appointment goes well. You may have to explain and repeat. Make sure your doc understands the intensity of the pain and that you have had it for 2 weeks with no relief. write it all out if you need to...if you think you will cry, because if you cry, docs tend to think you have a mental illness. That has been my experience. I even drew a picture of my pain locations and just handed it to my pain mgmt doc and she started me on a treatment plan immediately. Prior to that, she kept wanting to talk about my depression and just thought i was nuts. Take care. Write it out and then let it go and try not to think about it. Just some advice, i don't mean to sound bossy, take what you can use.
Do you know what chronic myofascial pain is? It is knots in your muscles that keep your muscles from relaxing. This is common with people who have fibro. I see a pain mgmt doc for injections and pain meds and physical therapy as needed.
Last edited by rosebuddy; 02-09-2009 at 04:22 PM.
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