sandyld

Health Interests

Fibromyalgia,  Lower Back Pain,  Neck pain,  T-2,  Foot Pain,  Sciatica,  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,  Stress & level 10 related Trigeminy,  Osteoarthritis,  Osteopenia

Drugs I am Taking

Tylenol 3 2 xday,  Valium 5 mg 2xday,  Soma 2xday,  Ibuprofen 200mg 2xday,  Elevil 100mg @ night,  Norvasc 20 mg 1 xday,  celexia 10 mg 1xday

About Me

I have had Fibromyalgia since 1987, I had slipped on a snack paper left on the stairs at the Hospital where I worked as a Respiratory Care Pratitioner. The ER Dr told me it would have better for me if I broken bones. The damage I had done to my deep muscle tissue was bad. About one year later a rhematoidoligist called it Fribositis then. He said it was usually triggered by an accident. He injected me with steroid every two weeks in my neck and shoulder and lower back. They helped about two days. I think I did more damage to my back while taking these injections. I would work like crazy trying to get the house cleaned, stock the pantry, clean the cars, you name it I was trying to get it done before the pain came back. Well it always came back and I noticed it was increasingly worse after the injection wore off. I stopped seeing him. Saw a local Dr I worked ER with. He had opened his own clinic. He did some research and referred me to another Dr. He started the injections in different sites. It was the same old dance that I been doing for the past couple of years by this time. Then came the pain clinics and the psychiatrist. It"s all in your head they told me. Now 21 years later "IT" has been through a couple of name changes. The latest Polymyalgia. My personal Doctor doesn't know what to do with me. But he does agree on one point; when I say my pain is at a level "ten" (what crack come up with that anyway?) my heart starts into a trigemany beat; that is where the heart is having thre PVC's in a row or skipping at least three beats. It feels like a flutter inside your chest. I think it is from years of stress and level "ten" pain. Does anyone out there have this problem? After two heart caths and echos & stress tests that all came back normal. He has reluctantly had to agree that "apparantly" the stress of Acute Chronic Pain is causing the flutters I feel in my chest. The only reason I keep seeing him is His Nurse Practitioner is one that I worked with for sixteen years. She knew me before and after the fibromyalgia. She also knew my husband who suffers Cluster Headpain.