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Hi, @karen00, I am so sad to hear of your recent RA experience. One of my dearest friends has that. We try to build one another up. Accentuate the positive. While at the same time, keeping it real.
Yes, indeed. Lyrica has its drawbacks. For me, I have to work at least five times as hard to keep up with a schedule that really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'm retired, and I am my own boss. That's my problem. I have so many interests and responsibilities that I feel pressured to do it all.
We CAN'T do it all. Never could. Not even when we were young and healthy.
Grateful to be here, chronic pain and all. It may be a roller coaster ride, but at least I get to show up. Meanwhile, let's talk it up amongst the medical students and point them towards Rheumatology! ( as I am presently without one, myself.)
Hope to see you around again soon!
Mamacita
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@mamacita Hi I haven't posted to you in awhile but follow our same fibromyalgia problems. I'm sorry you where miserable with the recent flare right after you had one I had one . I'm in the same boast as Karen00 rheumatologist are pretty non existent here . Right now my PCP gave me a Medrol pack and said take when I need it . I want to go back on Lyrica but she wont give me a script for it so guess have to see my pain Dr. and talk to him maybe he can ?
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I take Lyrica at night because it makes me sleepy and I don't want to be sleepy during the day. I take gabapentin during the day -- it is similar to Lyrica but it doesn't make me sleepy. I've always been a 'type A dynamo' but now I'm slowing down so I do as much as I can. I'm sorry that you have RA; my mother in law had it - it was very painful. I hope you find remedies. Peggy