Lindy

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hi tanya,

i don't know how well i've coped over the years, not too well, since i've never really been able to hold a job for very long and have been depressed so much.

i actually don't know which symptom came first. maybe depression. maybe ibs. i know it was 1988 when i had my first pain. i know it was early 90s when i began having weakness. i know it was around 94 when i started having RLS. the fatigue: it seems i've always been tired, but it got really bad about the time i was dx. probably sooner. in fact, i know i've never slept well, even as a kid i couldn't sleep. and i had aches and pains as a kid, grandma used to say growing pains. HA! it doesn't hurt to grow, duh!

i live in bennett, wisconsin which is just north of where the 6 hunters were killed the other day, about 40 miles or so away.

i turned 56 on november 10th. ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! how'd i get so old???????????????????????

hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,

lindy

WOW Lindy. You could probably give all of us coping tips. I was dx in Sept of 2001, but also had symptoms long before. They just didn't hit me all at the same time until about the last half of 1999. Of course then I had to see a million Drs before I was Dx. So where are you from if I may ask?? I live in Fairfield, Iowa. I am 32, almost 33 years old going on 75. I am married to a police officer and have 2 kids, aged 11 and 7. I also have 4 dogs and 2 turtles and a boarding kennel for dogs.

I hope you find our little family as good as I do. It really helps to have someone who knows what you are going through. I am glad your hubby has seen the light-- still waiting for mine to.

HUGS and welcome,

[Guest guest]

I hope I didn't come off sounding ugly to you. For 10 years, 5 to 15

years old, my family didn't celebrate holidays, so they aren't a big

deal to me. Now that we do again, it's more of a burden, something

I'm not used to yet. Hope you get your country buffet and have a

nice Thanksgiving!

[Guest guest]

i understand elizabeth, i really do. i'm antisocial as well, that's why i don't have any friends. i gripe about it, but i don't do anything about it either. and i can see why you want to just spend the day alone, with your hubby, and even eat pizza. i thought about making a pizza, from scratch. i just got a new kitchen aid mixer and haven't used it yet, and it came with a recipe booklet, including one for pizza crust. i don't know what i'll do tomorrow. if i don't go eat turkey though, i'll have to go to wendy's or pizza hut, someplace, grocery store, i don't have anything around here to eat. should have gone today, but too tired. and, i also understand about having to put on a fake, happy, pain-free face. too well.

"You can never be too rich, too thin or have enough Barbies!

Luv & Hugz, Lindy Lou

Don't feel sorry for yourself sweetie. I wish I didn't feel obligated to have Thanksgiving with my parents,and then drive 3 hours Friday to have late Thanksgiving with the in-laws. I don't want to cook anything, I don't want to see anyone, I just want to hang out with my husband and order a pizza. You'd probably tell me to be grateful I have family near. I am, I just don't like the idea of seeing them only on holidays. What if I don't feel well? What's wrong with any other time of the year? I don't have many friends either, just my cousin. I like it that way though. I'm antisocial, and have social anxiety. But I'm sorry your husband won't get to be with you tomorrow. Enjoy being alone and not having to put on a fake happy/pain free face. To me you're lucky.

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elizabeth -- don't even worry about it, you didn't, not at all!!!

"You can never be too rich, too thin or have enough Barbies!

Luv & Hugz, Lindy Lou

I hope I didn't come off sounding ugly to you. For 10 years, 5 to 15 years old, my family didn't celebrate holidays, so they aren't a big deal to me. Now that we do again, it's more of a burden, something I'm not used to yet. Hope you get your country buffet and have a nice Thanksgiving!