Re: Hello, I am new.

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I think it's time to play the lottery!

At least you have a great attitude about it all...most people would

have just balled up in bed and stocked up on the rum and coke.

Jeep

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> Hi!

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> I am new to this group, although not new to being sick, LOL! I

have had physical/emotional problems all my life, dating back as far

as I can remember, frankly. I know now that the issues I was dealing

with as a child were directly related to the fibromyalgia; abdominal

cramping (irritable bowel syndrome-common in FMS), " growing pains " ,

lack of energy, as well as suffering from SAD every year.

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> At the time I was labeled a crybaby, which I absorbed and

believed for a heckuva long time. In my late teens I had weird pains

in my shoulder which I also know now was fibromyalgia. In my early

20's I developed really bad knee problems that ended up putting me

into braces for two years while in physical therapy. I was told I

had chondromalacia patellae. Now when a doctor looks at my knees I

am told there is no evidence of ever having had this, so go figure.

I think it was the FMS at the time. Both knees would swell painfully

and get red and hot. Anyhow I also began having chronic UTI's to the

point of ending up on antibiotics for two years, after having had a

cystoscopy and a cystogram done which determined that I had infection

in my bladder and both ureters up to about 1 " from my kidneys. I was

lucky it was caught and I didn't get a kidney infection. Then I

managed to be given (thank you very much) herpes from my (at the

time) husband. That made my life

> complete let me tell you. That was 1986. In 1985 I had been in

my last year of college and had been in a car accident which left me

with severe whiplash. I was in a neck brace and physical therapy for

1 year for that.

> Jumping ahead to my late 20's - I was working full-time and going

to grad school at night and my neck started bothering me more and

more. It was in the area of the whiplash and I was having all kinds

of things done to alleviate the pain. I finally was properly

diagnosed with FMS at the age of 31. I had reached the point of

being unable to open a door without help, I shuffled when I walked

because I hurt so badly, but I finally knew what was wrong with me

and some of the things I could do to help myself so I started doing

them and I did get some better. One of the things I did was leave my

husband, who didn't 'believe' in FMS and who basically said it was

all in my head. Oh by the way, did I mention that I have suffered

from severe depressive episodes over the years starting at 13 years

old? Anyway, I used to allow my first husband to tell me what

I 'should' be feeling because, after all, I was depressed and it was

all my fault. Hah! I started taking

> antidepressants in 1995 at the age of 35 and wonder of wonders,

realized I was in a miserable marriage! So I left him.

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> I found out about the guaifenisen therapy for FMS and started

following it very carefully in Jan. 2003, and for me it has been a

miracle. I have been reversing pretty steadily and no longer suffer

from migraines, am off of all prescription pain-killers, have cut

back on many of the other medications that I used to take and am now

45 and doing very well with the FMS. So why am I here, you ask? I

was recently diagnosed with thyroiditis and am having to let that

play itself out, and I was also diagnosed with diabetes. And I am

soooooo tired of complaining to people who really don't understand

what a pain in the arse it is to have all these things wrong with

you. So there it is.

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> I meet with a nutritionist next week, I have been measuring my

blood sugar levels before and after every meal and they are all over

the place.

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> I am frustrated and tired of being hungry (side effect of the

thyroiditis which is supposedly a virus in my thyroid).

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> Celia

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> Vision without action is merely a dream.

> Action without vision just passes the time.

> Vision with action can change the world.

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