my experience with Fibro came 4 years after the band... I think it was more movement, and running that triggered it. I have yet to find that medication helps, what HAS helped is staying warm, and using the hot sauna at the gym, before and after a workout. It relaxes my muscles and then I am not hurting. another thing is, eating VERY healthy... any types of sugars, or a fatty meal, seem to aggravate it.  I know each person is different but changing my diet DRAMATICALLY helped. What I THOUGHT was healthy was really not, at least not for my Fibro... 

I hope this helps...

Pain management can be complex or simple, it depends on the cause of the pain. An example of pain that is usually less complex would be nerve root irritation from a herniated disc with pain radiating down the leg. This condition can often be alleviated with a physical therapy and epidural steroid injection. Other times, however, the pain does not go away. This needws a wide variety of techniques and skills to treat the pain. These skills and techniques include:

·         Physical therapy or chiropractic therapy  Psychological counseling and support

·         Acupuncture and other alternative therapies

·         Referral to other medical specialists

·         Interventional procedures

·         Medication management

All of these services and skills are required because pain can involve many aspects of a person's daily life. The treatment of pain is guided by the history of the pain aggravating and relieving conditions, and structures involved in causing the pain. 

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I agree and I take the same meds as you do. I was just taking the cymbalta but was given neurontin for some nerve issues and it helped quite a bit. It makes sense tho because fibro is a muscle, nerve problem so it's no surprise that it helps. I also still have pain and I also have to take narcotic pain meds for arthritis and I still have pain. It is tolerable most days but when it's not all I can do is take it easy for a day or two.

I think we all have to accept that we will hurt to some degree every day but we have to learn to make friends with the pain or at least acknowledge that it is there and won't be leaving. Sometimes something as simple as slow deep breathing helps relax me enough that it helps. We all have to play around with things that help like heat, massage, chiropractic, whatever helps.

It is hard to find someone who specializes in fibro pain sometimes so I would just make alot of phone calls till I find someone who deals with fibro a great deal than go see them because the average doc or sometimes even rheumatologist doesn't know that much about it. Try pain specialists, rheumatologists, neurologists and check with a national fibro organization for someone close to you. Sometimes you can find a university that deals with it. Good luck I hope you are able to find someone to help you!

I am at my wits end.  I have been to three different docs, which tell me all the same thing.  "Oh... doctors are just telling people they have it because they don't know what else is wrong with you"

I AM IN REAL PAIN... what do you do to ease the pain?  I have tried everything

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My symptoms seem to be sore muscles but did have burning on the soles of my feet for awhile. I take neurontin  for that and it worked really well. One great thing about neurontin is you can take huge doses and it has few if any side effects. Fibro is such a strange disease and effects us all differently. Hopefully an increase in dosage will help that's all I can come up with.