Finally can get online (and use the phone and watch tv) after 4 days of cable outs.



What was up with that? The weather wasn't even bad lol. Stoopid cable co asks why we didn't call. Well how can you when your phone is down?



Anyhoo....

I was using that flector patch and arthotech (when I swim, take the patch off and use the pill, same med). Had a rash break out in the area where I was applying the patch a week and a half ago. But also all month of June kept feeling flu-like, extremely tired and achey.

Immediately stopped both meds when the rash occured. I won't bore you with how the pain is, you can imagine. Good news is that sick achey feeling is gone. (And here I thought it was a fibro flare lol)

So I called the doc and he's going to have me try Lodine - I understand it's another NSAID.

Anybody tried this one?


I'm kinda bummed about this whole thing. Sick of trying one med after another, all that time waiting to see a dr, hoping he can help, waiting to get some different med, hoping it won't have horrible side effects - then living through them.

Some don't do anything and I'm out another co pay. And the ones that do work seem not to work long.

I wonder if anyone just finds pain relief that works and they live that way or if they're all like me, constantly searching. I shouldn't complain. At least I have a doc who is trying.