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Fibromyalgia - What medications help you with pain, fatigue etc?
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@jakefix82 I think you’re right about age- related complications that arise from the underlying fibromyalgia. It’s like a waterfall effect as your body weakens. I think you know your body well and are dealing with it as much as possible without NSAIDS which are so helpful. Sometimes we tend to overthink things in desperation to find and fix the cause of pain. I know it’s immensely frustrating and depressing. I applaud you for trying to stay mobile with exercise— that’s very important. Forgot if you tried amitriptyline— it’s a generic. Don’t neglect mental health.m as well . Biblical counseling helped me, as does my church. I also teach Tai Chi.
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@fmcfs Thanks! Yes, I took the generic for Elavil first five years - 10 mg didn’t help, so it was adjusted to 25 and that made a difference. For 5 years, I was allowed to self-dose, 25-50 mg, until the side effects were no longer tolerable. I recall that my skin itched afterwards and I was on another med to deal with that for about a year.
I think the recent left flank pain preceding the UTI by a couple weeks and the pain still continuing (though improving) is due to the nerve pathway in the area of the gut hyper-reacting to the bacterial infection. The muscles just clench as a result. It was my left hip muscles a couple years ago that followed the same pattern - starting up 2 weeks before I had other symptoms that suggested a UTI. It took a full 3 months for the hip muscles to fully resolve. Makes sense, as fibro sets off nerves.
I have a history of frozen shoulder, chronic hip bursitis, and chronic costchondritis- all of which took time to eventually resolve. Wondering if they’re all part of a pattern of fibro-related over-active nerves becoming aggravated and inflamed?
I think this latest hip miscle to pull in the past couple days is quite possibly a side effect of having taken Cipro for the UTI. I gave it a few weeks before going back to exercising - just started back exercising the past week and boom! - a severe muscle pull.
I was quite groggy last night on muscle relaxer Parafon Forte, finally went to sleep, but got up at 4 am when the mattress aggravated the muscle pain. Took just half a tablet of the muscle relaxer, but felt better somewhat when standing up and doing some slow walking - so I decided to to light vacuuming at 4 am! Perhaps that helped with circulation to the muscles, too. Went back to bed at 8 am and slept till noon - feel almost 100% better than last night! I think this is Cipro related. When I first finished the week-long course of Cipro, I couldn’t walk when waking up the next day. Muscles were just stiff. I was panicking, as I was last night. Only thing to do was rest some more, and improvement was quite noticeable.
I would like to exercise, though. Guess I need to wait & be patient.
Like you, I’ve found quieting/calming my body and just breathing in and out slowly helps to relax so I can rest. Panicking at suddenly losing mobility only makes things worse.
Thanks for your response!