Managing fibromyalgia

Hi! I'm so happy to hear from someone else who has these symptoms. i seem to feel worse with barometer changes, especially downward. I also get vertigo, nausea, irritable bowel and bladder along with all the symptoms you listed. I've been talking with my doctors for a year now about this. They just don't seem to have any answers. From the research I've done it seems all they can do is treat the symptoms. I've been taking 2 prilosec every morning. It has reduced the stomach pain but not the nausea, which I have everyday. so PCP has finally agreed to send me to gastroenterologist. My sister who also has Fibro has stomach issues as well and her gastro doc gave her different meds that seem to work. She lives too far away for me to use her doctors. Fortunately for her, she doesn't get the complete heavy flu symptoms but gets enough of it. Good luck!

Some of us are very sensitive to weather changes, foods, and even a drop in water intake can bring on a flair of "flu-like" symptoms. Sometimes it remits, giving me hope that if I continue to eat mindfully, attend to my stress level, sleep enough each night (ha) and keep my water up, I will have good days.
Yoga, Thai Chi, walking - these are all things that I can do. I probably won't ever take up white-water kayaking, but I can gather "Joy Points" throughout the day and enjoy what I can. The ONLY thing that ever sent my symptoms completely away was a small dose of HGH in the muscles. I cannot find a Doctor willing to prescribe that for me anymore:{

I think I'm sensitive 2 the weather.i do try 2 eat mindfully,drink enough water,sleep enough&attend 2 my stress.i walk 2 to 3 times a wk.2.Think I've heard of HGH.That's 2 bad.But,when I get my Disability this weekend;I'll buy some pot ointment.I've heard it's suppose 2 be effective.Hopefully,so!get more sleep sometimes.

The CBD products are very helpful for pain points! And the regular POT is amazing for sleep if you can handle it. I have to be already in the bed and take a puff, otherwise I cannot navigate back to bed:}

What do you mean CBD?Thx!We had friends who were living by us 4 a while.(They moved.)they used pot 4 pain.let me try some but I had trouble inhaling it.That's amazing.

My initial symptoms for years were an electric fence feeling and extreme fatigue through my entire body. Diet, exercise as part of a low low level strict routine helps me most. Tai chi, yoga, swimming, walking all work for me. When I go for a walk as I find myself in pain I feel better. I also had to lower my expectations of myself I adjusted better. The mental challenge of denial and all associated to appear cyclically and the biggest challenge for me. Mayo docs encouraged self management and staying off of meds. After a couple of years I completely understand. I'm considering a class they offer to learn how to deal with pain. Maybe this would help you. I also continue to fight the urge to treat symptoms.

Sometimes, the day starts OK,. I feel like I have the energy to accomplish at least one major project I've already started.
Then, I don't know, I just fall apart with exhaustion and lethargy. I do not feel like me anymore. Maybe a shadow of me.

I know what you mean.Like tod.4 me.With me,it doesn't(Althoigh,mornings're usually best 4 me!take much 2 lose energy.Frustrating!Sorry.

I realize that I did not answer what CBD stands for. Cannabidoil is an extraction from a strain of Hemp plant that is very soothing to sore muscles and does not get one "high" at all. I have heard it is even being offered in main-stream body product stores, but I prefer to go to the "Pot" shop for it because I can be sure that they don't use any harmful emulsifiers. Sometimes, I wish I could just bathe in it. It doesn't have a smell, or a burn, it just stops the pain.
There are Fibromyalgia and Fatigue centers, but very expensive. It requires a lot of blood work. Many people who develop sudden onset of Fibro symptoms actually have Lyme disease. Most of us have "yuppie flu" that started showing up in the early 80s - I forget the clinical name for it, but it is related to chicken pox, works it way into your nervous system and is opportunistic when we become tired, eat badly, overstress, don't sleep. Since most of us have a disrupted sleep pattern, it is hard to not be tired. I find that D-Ribose with magnesium malate can be very helpful.
Just beware, there is a lot of snake oil being sold as "cures".

Oh.But,being less spendy's 4 me 2.Blood work's only thing.They usually have trouble finding my veins.Don't know if I've that flu.But,I do have sleep issues(Don't usually get enuf.)&trouble with stress.Yes.Thx!