Hello There,
I'm Melanie.
It's been over a year now that my body is acting up ,
swollen feet,migraine headaches,severely in pain from my head to my toes,
insomnia,sensitivity to light,depression,you mention it, i have it type of idea!
I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia its almost been a year now,I have applied to disability which refused me over and over but now have a disability lawyer who takes care of it all, after being refused three times i am now at the social benefit tribunal,my chances are at maximum at the tribunal.Once you make it there your chances are very high to win.How i deal with my pain, now is another story, i take apo-amitryptaline 10 mg and percocet for pain,
which doesnt help very much.At this point of my life i am not about to give up!
WE ALL NEED TO TRY BEING POSITIVE AS MUCH AS WE CAN,
you will say '' easy to say'' and i know what you mean.
I have a SECRET i would like to share with everybody on this site!
I have found the difference between a physician and a homeopathy doctor who works with natural cures,the physician is there to treat symptoms and the homeopathy doctor is there to find the cause!
I contacted a homeopathy doctor and she took the time to explain every lil
details on how the body acts and how toxins are affecting it and finally explain to me that she could make it all go away!
I thought about what she said for a month now and i believe she is right.
I am not a doctor, don't get me wrong but if homeopathy works its my last chance, i am getting worst and worst every day trying not to lose my mind.My advice to you is to do research on homeopathy and you will find out amazing things,be open minded about it,just in case of.
I will write back after my homeopathy treatments to tell you how things went and hopefully to tell you there is more hope about getting these nasty diseases out of our lives.
all the love to you surviving with pain and disease.
melanie

I am 21 years old. I have been living with fibromyalgia since I was 14 years old and got dx finally at 16. I had to leave my high school when i was 17 because the fluroescent lighting made me very sick so I had to do correspondence. I'm highly photosensitive. I've had ANAs done so many times and dsDNA and Lupus workup and everything. Nothing has shown up. But now I'm in a flare-up. I was hospitalized around a month ago, they think it's endometriosis going through my system. Or that I have an endocrine disease.
What worries me is what happened to me the day I got admitted into the hospital. In the ER waiting room I was under the fluorescents for 4 hours. I started having rashes around 10 minutes after I got under them. After 4 hours though I started having trouble breathing and my back was all broken out in red,raised rashes and all over my body.
Then just last week I was going into the college to drop some papers off and I was waiting in line for like 1 1/2 to 2 hours at the most. My hearing went then my sight went weird and I was seeing all kinds of flying things and then I was in slow motion and my mom said my lips went from white to dark blue and I was as white as a sheet. I could not comprehend anything I thought I was going to pass out or even die. I just wish they would figure out what's wrong because I know for sure it isn't fibromyalgia making me this photosensitive. Does anyone else have a photosensitivity problem to fluorescents this bad?

i have been diagnonsed with wegeners, cfids, fibromyalgia, congenital heart failure and the latest is a form of anemia that forms and kills the red blood cells while still in the marrow. i am so sick, and pain, and completely worn out all the time. has anyone experienced anything like this?
mjm3300

Hi everyone--I was diagnosed in May 2006 with Lupus--I have been treated for Lupus and have had more then one doctor iaginose me with Lupus THEN this month I went to an R/A doctor who specializes in Lupus and she says becauxe all of my lab work came back neg for Lupus EXCEPT the ANA which was 320--and my platelet being 614-- she feels I have fibromyalgia instead of Lupus--now this throws me in a loop since I am on prednisone. What is the diffenence in Lupus vs Fibromyalgia does any one know? puggylee