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Have you found anything to successfully treat fibromyalgia pain?
Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Mar 13, 2023 | Replies (115)Comment receiving replies
The diagnosis is likely right. However, you probably should look into getting images and then a referral to physical therapy to alieviate the numbness and pain of an impingement or other issue. I go to an Orthopedic for that. Chasing symptoms is often the way to solving things that come up. Fibromyalgia and other autoimmune diseases have lots of "idiopathic" symptoms.
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In reply to @marye2….. I really liked your comment about “chasing the symptoms” as I recently attempted to do this with my spine specialist and he brushed it aside as “central sensitization” symptoms. This was disheartening and your comment restored my efforts to always rule “in or out” issues as they arise. Thank you.
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Have had MRIs of entire spine, brain, x-rays of entire spine. New neuro is physician #10. PT sets off severe symptoms that feel like a heart attack. EMG/NCV arms and neck showed possible C8 nerve root compression ergo C-spine MRI #3 coming up next week. C-spine 2017 showed nothing at that level and neuro originally did not think it was worth repeating. Several labs for autoimmune, MS, thyroid stuff, all WNL, not even close to high or low ends of normal to suggest borderline. I'm scheduling an ortho appointment on my own. My neurologist's partner did the EMG/NCV and when she ask about pain and I told her I don't have pain, but rather paresthesias, she didn't think it was fibro. The absence of pain has been a confounder for everyone. Stretching, reaching, bending, even fast walking, pushing a shopping cart, light push-ups against wall, sets it off and it takes weeks to subside.