Question:
Anyone with Fibromyalgia get approved for Surgery

If you are post-op has it been easier to walk, and do you have any more flares. After the surgery besides the normal pain your suppose to feel, was it painful to walk b/c of Fibromyalgia? Did you have foot swelling?    — Mahogany_Buttafly (posted on June 22, 2007)

June 22, 2007
Everyone is different but I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia I lost 150 pds and I am not bothered with it any longer. You will have to lose a good amount of weight first.
   — DonnaB.

June 22, 2007
Hi Lashonne, thanks for writing. I looked at your profile, and I didn't see your BMI, so I don't know how much you have to lose, however, I did see that you love to dance and shop and do other things that you "push" through the pain of what you have. This is the attitude that you need when you have wls. I don't have Fibromyalgia, but there have been many in our support group who have. Some work hard and push through and work for the outcome, and I have seen others who make excuse after excuse and have used handicap carts to show when they could walk, etc. It is a choice and up to you. If you are swollen, you may have to put your feet up, but once the swelling goes down, you may have to work extra hard to get some weight off while you can. Wls is a precious tool, but no miracle. If you refuse to exercise, eventually a lot of the weight comes back. It might not be for a few years, but it does come back. I really encourage you to use that youthful spirit you have to fight for your health each day, and some days just fight through the pain to get what you really want. Just remember the basics, protein, water, exercise. Keep all of those things alive, and eventually you have the hope of either eliminating the results of fibromyalgia, or the ability to work with what you have for your best result. Either way you are a winner with the right attitude. Best to you. Patricia P.
   — Patricia P

June 23, 2007
Each person is different. Many who do not have this dis-ease will pooh pooh it. Sometimes there is no way to push through the pain. I'll give you my experience, but no doubt it will not be yours. I was bedridden before my surgery, and mostly could not put on my clothes because of pain and extreme exhaustion. When I had my surgery, I went right into a flare that beat all flares I have ever experienced. In fact, I never felt surgical pain...the fibro pain preempted it. I had a flare that would not quit for 6 weeks, and another 4 weeks it was bad but better. It got a lot better with losing the weight...only in the sense that the excess poundage was not pulling on my joints, tendons and muscles. But it by no means went away. I still suffer with it. Some days I can do a lot...but if I do a lot, I pay for it for several days. So I have to budget my strength, since I don't have a lot to work with. Anyone has never had this problem, and says you just need to "work through the pain" I'd like to give them 5 minutes inside my body and then see what they say. Sorry if this is a bit of a rant...but it engenders the same feeling as someone telling me to get my exercise by pushing myself away from the table...or if I just watched what I ate, I would be thin like they were. These comments come from people who have never had an issue with weight. It's the same thing...people who have never had an issue with severe pain cannot speak about it. Regards~
   — Statuesque