What really baffles me is why my primary care doctors kept prescribing medications for each illness/symptom. At one point I was on medications for : high blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, restless leg syndrome, neck and back pain, muscle pain, insomnia, and irritable bowel syndrome, Why couldn't the doctors put all my symptoms on a "white board" (like they do on the TV series "House") instead of the easy fix of just adding a new prescription? Finally after years of misdiagnoses, I am on 1 medicine for fibromyalgia, 1 for hbp, 1 for cholesterol, and occasionally 1 for sleep. I am no long taking narcotic pain medications and take an anti inflammatory as needed. It did take me almost a year to finally find a fibromyalgia drug that I could take and get positive results. I am currently on Savella. It gives me the most relief for "fibro fog" we experience and the muscle twitches I have. As far as the pain level I experience I have good days and bad. I will tell you that the more active I am the better I feel. It is just so hard sometimes to get motivated to exercise or even just get out out bed.
This illness has left me without a job now because of a surgery I had in June. I missed so much work because of the inability to get a medication to finally work for me and the constant pain I was in everyday.
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