Many of us have different kinds of pain; for example, pain from lugging around so much excess weight, arthritis/joint pain, migraine pain, to a name a few things.  So, if you can get control of as many layers of pain as possible than it is just easier to deal with fibromyalgia.  In that respect weight loss surgery has helped my fibro because I am less tired than when I was carrying around so much more weight which contributes in a better way to the pain cycle.  Also, it has eased my joint pain.  It is soooo hard to deal with fibro so eliminating any additional pain is beneficial.

Good Luck
Barb

I have congestive heart failure along with my fibro. I have had many times when I did not know if my chest pain was heart or fibro. Early on I would get very nervous about this. I have learned to take a few deep breaths and lay down for a little while and just take relaxing breaths. For me, when I can not calm down or the pain does not go away then I should go in and have it checked out. Check with your dr. about having some nitro pills on hand. Usually if you take them when you are not having chest pains you just end up with a really big headache.
Try to learn to let yourself relax when you get anxious and worried. Good luck

Hi Everyone!!

I just joined and I have been gaining weight steadily and I eat healthy but I was just wondering If after surgery and if losing the weight makes exercising any easier.  Right now its really difficult on me to exercise however I still try.  I guess I'm just really nervous and any help would be great!!

Thanks!
Mary 

Hi ladies need some support from the fibro community. First let me staart off by saying I have anxiety problems but this gets so scary. I get alot of chest pain been told its inflamation in my cartilage from the fibro but some times its hard to not go to the ER. just to make sure but i feel so stupid when they once again tell me im fine. And alot of times they will ?? about taking my anxity pills. I went in last friday ekg fine still felt like crap on monday went to the doctors said its nomonia but he didnt do an x ray because i had my son with me. Can anybody tell me the diffrence between fibro pain and heart pain. They say the fibro pain will hurt worse if you push on it, but when it hurts all the time its hard to tell. Loretta

Other than a pretty bad bout of depression during the switch, I have had no side effects from Savella.

It's a little hard to remember to take two pills (morning, bedtime) right now, since I was so used to taking one per day.  For me the cost is the same as Cymbalta, and it seems to work the same, so I'll stick with it.

Thanks for your reply!