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piDesigns Hi! My name is Beth and I will be taking over this site from Lynette. She has been kind enough to let me do this and I know that we all pray that she will be feeling better soon. I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and I hope that you will all stay with me and continue to support all of our friends with Fibro and all chronic pain syndromes. I have been suffering unknowingly with Fibro for the last 15 years. I'm pretty sure I had it before that as well, but even CFS wasn't highly regarded as being real back then, and I worked in a hospital! Anyway, I got very sick 3 years ago after I took a tumble down some stairs. Since then it has been a vicious circle of meds and doctors who just thought I was crazy and told me to "stop stressing so much," and "we don't know what's causing your pain." Regardless of the Fibro, I have a degenerative disk disease, and osteoarthritis in my neck and spine. I can't imagine why any of that would hurt! Oh, and before I go on, I am an Army wife, so these are ARMY doctors...last year I finally mentioned to my PCM that I had the symptoms of MS, so they sent me to a neurologist and ruled out everything but MS. Then, they just stopped seeing me. So, for this past year, I have been mislead into thinking I had MS, but they offered no treatments or support. My husband deployed to Iraq for the second time, and I just said "screw it," and stopped going to the doctors. Most days I felt well enough, with the bad days here and there, sometimes just lasting a few days, or other times, a few weeks. I just dealt with it like I always have. Finally, this May, I got very ill and was vomiting for 7 days without end. I lost 15 lbs. in a week. 3 trips to the ER and they sent me home with pills to take when I couldn't even hold down water! They finally admitted me overnight, pumped me full of fluids and meds and sent me home the next day, still without any answers. So, I did some more research online, looking at MS again, and came across a fibromyalgia site. I had read about it before, but just never connected. This time it hit me! There it is! That's ME!!! I went to my follow-up appointment with a folder full of fibro info and told my doctor, this is what's wrong with me; this is why I feel so horrible all the time and can't sleep, and feel like a 90-year-old woman. My hair is falling out in clumps, I had a rash all over, I was using my cane to hold myself up, and this is what he said..."do u have a bible? Maybe if you went to church you would feel better?" After I picked my jaw up off the floor and got my sobs under control, I told him I wanted to see a specialist. Not a shrink, not a shaman, but a real-live, off-post, non-military doctor. On June 30th, I went to Nashville and met Dr. Leslie Cuevas. After about a half hour chatting, showing her my past 3 years of medical history, and her examining me, she said the magick words, "you have all the classic symptoms of fibromyalgia. Do you think you have fibro?" I told her indeed, I did, and she prescribed Lyrica for me, and gave me a big hug! I was never so happy to hear anything in my life! Finally, I can move forward, get on with it, and get myself back on track. I know it's not fun, it's painful and interferes with everyday life; but at least now I know. I can take steps towards healing myself and I also know that I'm not alone, and I'm not crazy! Fibro is very real. The people I have met in the last 2 months have been SO inspiring. So many of us have been suffering for years without support and that needs to stop. I want to make sure this site keeps helping and informing FMS/CFS patients and their loved ones and families. Sorry for blabbing so much! I look forward to hearing from you all and I will be adding info and changing the page around a bit, but it will ROCK! Thanks for your support! Much Love. If you wanna know more about me, my other myspace ID is: www.myspace.com/talon7461
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