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Old 10-23-2011, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Evonne View Post
Thanks for your empathy. I am sorry to hear that you are suffering as well. I have a lot of fasciculations myself, but my EMG didn't show anything rare like ALS. The fasciculations are a nuisance for sure. I hope that you get to feeling better soon.

As for me, I have been posting in the PD forum, because I think that most of my symptoms are most like PD. I saw two doctors within the last week and a half that both felt that my diagnosis of Fibro was incorrect. Mainly based on the tremor and cogwheel rigidity that I have. Those things are not consistent with Fibro. So, for the second time in the past year, I have gone back on PD meds. This time, the doctor gave me the best medicine there is for PD...the "Gold Standard". I have only been taking one pill a day and it is in the early morning. I have noticed that I have been less shaky and that my stiffness seems to improve when I am on the medication. It is as if a calm just sort of comes over me and the internal shakiness that I have described since the beginning of this seems to go away. By mid afternoon, my symptoms seem to get a little worse again. My thought is that gradually the doctor will increase the dose up to multiple times a day until we see more improvement. If the meds don't seem to help much, then it means that I probably don't have PD and the search for what is really going on inside of my body will continue. I am not going to give up until the right doctor finds out what is wrong with me. Hopefully, the answer will come sooner rather than later.

Thanks for your response...and hang in there!
Hi Evonne,
I'm a 28 yr old woman. I began having symptoms as young as 12 yrs old. I also have many of the same symmptoms as you, including tremors. Mostly in my hands but sometimes in my legs as well. I was only diagnosed about 2 yrs ago. Since then I've done a lot of internet research as well as started reading many books. One of the books that I felt explained and described fibromyalgia symptoms and possible causes was "Chronic Fatique Syndromme, Fibromyalgia, and other invisible illnesses" by Katrina Berne, PH.D. Doing some research goes along way. There is a lot more literature out there than people realize. Hope this helps and I hope everyday is better than the last! Stay strong!
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