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@sunnyflower

Thx Hank. I thought I did try what you said to do to access the first pist about Bx's.
Re: fibro Pn, I never get flares, it's there all the time. Feels like the flu; every skin cell so and throbs and aches and I can't be touched in the textbook places and must be touched in specific ways everywhere else. Now that I have head to toe neuropathy, every nerve is agitated, burning, and stinging, so there are two specific unique pains. I also have the fibro fog where it's very hard to track, concentrate, make decisions, remember Etc. The Gabapentin I take for my neuropathy exacerbates that greatly! I run a low-grade temp of sometimes around a hundred with my pain. Does that sound like what your Linda goes through? Also, regarding the biopsy, I have asked it before but have not seen an answer, I am wondering where on the body set biopsies are taken from. Do you know? I would think a dermatologist might do a better job of it than the neurologist LOL! I have no problem asking my doctor for it. I have also asked but if not heard back, what the pathology report says about the skin nerves. I have read a little bit online but I would like to hear from you guys on the blog what your path report showed to validate your condition. Can you help with that? You seem to be very much in the loop. I appreciate everything. Many blessings, Sunnyflower

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@sunnyflower No, what you describe about your fibro is different in that for you it's there always whereas Linda's calms down when she stops doing too much. So yes, hers are flares as you say. It is awful while she goes through it but it does go away eventually. I will have to ask her about "fibro fog" as I am not sure she has mentioned that to me. She did get foggy brained when she took gabapentin though, but it went away after she went off of it. She was also foggy for a few years after chemo, which the chemo caused. That went mostly away when she (and I) started taking all of the mitochondrial boosting supplements that we now take, including Acetyl L Carnitine, Niagen and Mito-Q among others. I will read Linda all of your recent posts tomorrow and if she has any responses beyond what I have stated I will let you know. Best, Hank