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Fibromyalgia pain: Let's connect
Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Oct 31 9:08am | Replies (1334)Comment receiving replies
Wanda, I'm so sorry you have to struggle with this awful illness. Check out the 4-7-8 breathing technique online. I especially like the YouTube videos where Dr. Andrew Weil demonstrates this simple relaxing technique. I find that it gives me a better sense of well being if I do it twice daily as recommended. Good luck. I am a chronic pain sufferer too.
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Hi @basslakeview, I apologize for the delay in responding... yup, pharmacogenomic testing truly saved my life. It's valuable information that truly helps figure out the best treatment options, and it can help you family members, too.
Sometimes if you're someone like me, it removes options from the table, but I'd rather not take a drug that will make me sick. (I've actually been offline for a little while because I was battling a cold/virus, and I can't take the good cold medicines due to my polymorphisms, so it takes me a little longer to recover.)
Please keep us posted regarding your progress!
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Thank you, KDubois, for taking the time to tell us about yourself and your experiences with medications. I am in a similar situation, but mine is due to losing a kidney in 1999. The drs thought it was cancer. It wasn't. It was a benign tumor (oncocytoma). My nephrologist has advised me not to take any NSaid drugs in order to save my one kidney.
Long story, short...
That leaves me with only being able to take Methadone the last few years. Its been the only one I can take that doesn't give me that drugged out feeling...it only seems to take the pain away some, never all the way because I refuse to take more than just enough to be able to function...get things done.
But you have given me an idea. I'm going to tell my doctor about the testing you had done.
Elizabeth (NE Texas)