Fiberowendy
 

I think that is how her name was spelled. Has anyone heard form her? I miss hearing about her tortoises. She was on the weight loss forum with us and I keep looking for her name here...Sue

Maybe she is at BrainTalk forums again. I haven't seen her either.

I looked over there and didn't see her. I have not joined the old BT. I didn't look everywhere though:D . She used to post on our weight loss forum so I was wondering if she was around or if anyone had seen her anywhere else on another fibro board. Oh well if anyone hears form her let her know we miss her. Thanks...Sue

There is one fibrowendy here...

http://forums.braintalk2.org/member.php?u=19

I have her email addy.... I'll send her an email letting her know about this thread :)

Hi! I am here.....Liz just emailed me the link to this thread. Its been a rough time this summer and fall.
I haven't been able to exercise like I have wanted to and have gained back some of the weight I lost way back. Not happy about it. Unfortunately, I can't really go to the gym right now. About a month ago, I had my first rhizotomy(aka Radio Frequency Ablation) in my left lumbar area and in a couple of weeks I will be getting my right side done. So the recovery has been slow and I've been laying on the couch quite a bit. Unfortunately my depression has come back full blown because of this adding to the problem. Last week, I have been given the tenative diagnosis of Bipolar 2 disorder and given Lamictal (which makes me extremely tired) to try and see if it helps.
So I have been very busy and not really up to going to check out the boards. To be honest, I thought this one was going to be shut down because the original BT was back up. I haven't been able to log on with my screen name there yet...there seems to be a problem. So I haven't been able to post there.
But I am okay just struggling a little. Sorry for dropping out on you guys.:o

Hi Wendy, good to "see" you again. We are also on the weight loss forum here. If I had any computer geek in me I could post the link to it but I am not that puter literate. It is good to see that the old gang is coming back together. You were missed around here...Sue

Wow, you are quick!

It's nice to see you here :)

I would write more, but my head is pounding, so I'll be back later with a proper reply....

Liz


PS - just so you know, the old braintalk did not restore the database when it came back online, so everyone has to register like a new member before they can post..... but selfishly I hope you stay here at our new forum :)

Yeah Liz. I know. I re-registered but for some reason it isn't working for me. Maybe they don't want me back. :D

LOL It didn't work for me either, so I had to try again and make myself Wittesea*.

What I wanted to type yesterday was about the bipolar diagnosis.... I was diagnosed with bipolar several years ago and put on mood stabilizers, etc... Then a few years later the diagnosis was 'downgraded' to cyclothymia (a milder form of bipolar) and then the doctors decided that I don't have a mood disorder, but rahter my mild mood changes are due to my physical body changes (energetic when no pain is low, depressed when pain is high).

I'm not trying to suggest that your doctors are wrong about the bipolar, I just wanted to let you know that I have 'been there done that' with being diagnosed and the mood stabilizers, etc...

I do know that when I was diagnosed with bipolar that I was having mega mood swings, and the mood stabilizers really helped....

The bipolar forum here has a lot of great people who are very supportive and have a lot of information and experience....

In my experience, it's so hard to balance the physical with the emotional and the mental - and then balance the meds for all of them. For me when I was diagnosed as bipolar, it was also hard to figure out the mood swings in terms of what is anxiety and what is bipolar, and what was just normal life mood changes.... but talking about it really helped.

Anyway, I'm glad to see you here and posting. Let me know if you need anything :)

Liz

Awwwww Wends..... Come 'ere....you need a BIG hug!
There, now is that a little better? Hope so, cuz we miss you!!

I hope that "cheered" you up some.

Your disguise fooled me you stinker, but Liz found you for me.

Seriously though, it is good to "see" you. Sorry to hear about your new problems honey.....they suck. Actually, that's why Liz found you for me. I have a question about a new med that you might be able to help me with. Please check your PMs.

Here's a link to our weight loss forum here. I'm in one of my no-post slumps right now like I get when I get some crappy news---you know me......

http://forums.braintalk2.org/forumdi...aysprune=&f=42

For the most part we call this great place home now, but some of us check the other place and post once in a while too. Please come visit us! We're almost all here--and even have some new ones that are just as much fun!! There are new people reading and joining all the time. We are getting helpful hints, advice, recipes, nutrition, supplements--tons of stuff. Stop in just to say hi--we miss your tortoises.....oh, I mean, you..... :o

Hang in there sweetie, and remember we care!!

Hugs,
Jan

((((Fibrowendy)))) Good to see you! Take gentle care of yourself.

Cymbalta has helped a lot with my fibro, but I still have the chronic myofascia goin on. I wondered if the Cymbalta was really helping so I tested it by going back down to 60 mg. from 90. Within a couple days I woke up one morning and thought, oh god. My hands ached, my feet hurt and were stiff. I just hurt in a lot of places that seemed VEWY FAMILIAR! And realized I hadn't had that usual morning stifness and pain in a long time!

Went back up to 90 and it stopped. My doc said 'they' discovered that 90 mg was the magic number to help with the fibro, not 60 as had been suggested.

Feel better soon dearheart.

I have been doing okay. I am trying to adjust to this new medication. My brand new psych nurse practitioner keeps upping my Lamictal so I have been dealing with that.
As for the Cymbalta, I was on 90 for a while but it didn't work for me at all. In fact, it made my depression worse and did nothing for my pain. This might have something to do with the Bipolar stuff. Good luck with it.

i'm so glad to see lots of bipolar sort-of-bipolar people popping up here in the fibro forum. I just got diagnosed with fibro last year (actually I diagnosed myself with fibro about 10years ago, it just took that long for the doctors to catch up with me!). I've had treatment for depression for about 15 years, but I finally got around to accepting the bipolar label last year. It was a big year for lots of new labels :)
I wonder why there is such a strong link between the diagnoses ... is it just because most doctors are befuddled and not very careful with dxing fibro OR bipolar?

From what have read Molly, because both dx's are associated with similar brain functions, they are related. So we see people who have FM also have depression, anxiety or BP issues.
Strange it took so long to put two and two together for docs on this issue. But only recently did docs realize that FM is a CNS issue and that the same functions in the brain are also similar to those other issues.
AH the brain....what a pain in the backside!

I haven't been around here for awhile. I used to be at the other forum, and check in there onec in awhile, but don't see familiar names there.
I was dx with depression in 1977 after a lot of life things triggered it. I've had the fibro dx for about 6 years. I've also recently come to accept the bipolar 2 dx. It explains a lot in my life. I take Tegretal instead of Lamactil, plus an SSRI and other drugs. They make it possible for me to have a life.

After all this time, it still amazes me how I can get severe elbow pain (that's where it's been lately) for a couple of weeks, to the point that I'm sure something else is really wrong...............and then it just disappears for awhile.
It can make me crazy. Elbows, hips, lower back, and neck.

We all deserve a big hug.
:grouphug:

Hey Coyote! Nice to see you here....Welcome!

Thanks, Fiberowendy. I'm still kickin' around. It's good to connect with someone again.