Living with Fibromyalgia and RA as well

Hey Ya'll,

As the title says I live with Fibromyalgia, I also live with

RA and Gout among other things because my Fiance'

has RA and gout and is totally disabled ( in the clinical sense ), we both have good days and bad as you all know

so well, as we get older it seems there are more bad days

than good physically, what helps is the tremendous love

we share, we help each other as we are able, we do what

we can on our own and help each other with whatever

we are able to do that day.For the past four months

my fiance' has not been able to even walk across a room

first due to pain and then due to weakness in his knees

because he has had to use his power chair to get around,

but in the past week he has been able to get across the room on his own about once or twice each day but it

wears him out very quickly and his ankles swell if he

does too much so it is slow progress but it is progress

and that does him good. I am still able to work part time

but I don't know how much longer I will be able to do it,

I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 1991, I was put

on a course of Ibuprophen 800 mg as needed and Flexeril

10mg three times a day and I was on that for a few months, then my doctor at the time told me to try not to take the muscle relaxers any more than I absolutely had to because of the damage it could do over time to I think she said my liver ( I can't really remember because it

was a long time ago ) . I stopped taking them both many

years ago because I no longer had medical coverage to

pay for it and went to taking over the counter Tylenol type pain killers, they take the edge off when the pain isn't too severe. None of the jobs I've had in recent years

had medical insurance that I could afford so I deal with it as best I can. As I said earlier I am still working part time

but I've already lost the major amount of work hours

simply because I have to move slower and take more breaks and it was costing them too much money so they

moved me to a different job ( actually 2 different departments ) and now I only work 3 hour shifts most

of the time because my body can't take much more than

that, when i work a 6 or 7 hour day my body screams

and it takes a couple of days to ease the pain to the

point where I'm able to deal with it. Well folks I've

reached the point where my fingers hurt and that means

it is time to call it a night. It is now 3:15 AM ( central time ) Good Night and God Bless BethG