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Have you found anything to successfully treat fibromyalgia pain?

Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Mar 13, 2023 | Replies (115)
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I scheduled my own, also. I did shop for physical therapy as it is important for them to take you from where you are. Most of the program was stretching, while lying down, yoga/isometrics, pilates. It required limited standing or cardio. I just got over covid, so not sure how that exercise would affect cardio, but it certainly "fixed" my sciatica and restless legs and built up my core. I have neck and lower back degeneration and hypermobility (Elers-Danlos light).

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debkl | @debkl | Mar 2, 2023

I received a notification from this thread and wanted to post an update.

I had several weeks back in early 2022 of numbness tingling and weakness that subsided. The MRI showed a lot of severe foraminal stenosis at multiple cervical levels, and less severe in thoracic. I moved and got a new doc whom I saw in 12/22, who miraculousky got another C-spine MRI approved 8 months after the 1st. Findings did not correlate with the ENG/NCV. He disagreed entirely with the neurologist re fibro and avoiding movements that "would paralyze me " (aka, nocebic language). New doc agreed with me that absence of radicular pain does not mean absence of radiculopathy. It is stunning that the other docs didn't know that.

So, I continued doing some of the exercises I was doing in PT and slowly added my own to get back into better shape. It's been a slow journey but I'm beginning to get my strength back without triggering symptoms.

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