Update

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Hi All,

Well, I went to my follow up appt. with the new rheumy, and I think he is

definitely a keeper! He is kind, understanding, and patient, and is not at

all averse to treating my pain while we try to figure out what the heck I

have. He hasn't ruled out FMS, but my blood titers for rheumatic factor

were sky high, though I don't have the localized joint tenderness and

swelling, etc., so even that is atypical. Figures. He wants to do a bone

scan next and see where that goes. I guess it would sound weird to anyone

without chronic pain, but it is so gratifying to attach a name to the pain,

not so much for me, but for everyone else, its like validation for your

invisible torment to be able to call it something, or even a possible

something! Even my husband has done a turn-around in his behavior toward

me, pathetic but true. Before he was tolerant most times, but I always

felt he thought I was being a wuss or malingering, he acted annoyed when I

didn't want to go out and " do things " . Now he is being very helpful and

understanding, a small miracle. He even got off the soap box about

narcotics since he's seen how much relief I have, and how much better my

mood is. When the pain goes from a nine to a five, those are four HUGE

points, and it shows!

So lets see, my string of acronyms is growing...CP OA IBS PVC's PMS FMS

MPS RA M & M's... (hey, ya gotta get something good in there!) And so is my

pharmacy... Inderal, Celexa, Flexeril, Vicoprofen, Ativan, Donnatal...

isn't it fun! NOT! Thank goodness for insurance.

Speaking of insurance... the only negative to the day was the pharmacy...

he wrote me a prescription for 120 Vicoprofen and the darn pharmacy said

they can only give out 50 for 30 days max! Do any of you have this

problem, and if so, what do you do about it? I'm not sure if it is the

pharmacy policy, or the insurance... IF i can get the rest, they get a

$35.00 co-pay for each of 3 refills instead of 1? Hmmmm. Not cool. Any

advice?

I just wanted to share my good news after all the doors that were slammed

in my face up until now, I know you can all relate. My pain has " official "

recognition, but the big miracle is that he is less than 15 minutes from my

house, he accepts our insurance, and he is a GOOD doctor! It took forever,

but I think I finally got my man! Take care and have a painless day!

Char in CT

(Oh, by the way, I was hoping that instead of just hitting reply when

responding to postings with lots of text, we could highlight the pertinent

passage(s) and then hit reply...most mail programs will do this, cutting

out all the extraneous text. Its just good netiqette and is especially

annoying when you get the digest version of this group and sometimes have

to scroll through endless quoting to get to the post beneath it.)