"JoettaB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I have fibro and sleep apnea combined with other heatlh issues. They (meaning my employee
retirment system) have sent me to several specialists in addition to my own quest for medical assistance--
creating a barrage of doctors to the point that you don't know which was is up and which way is
down! Thus far, what I can determine is that stress, diabetes and thyroid are also tied in a loose
manner to fibro, but that fibro and sleep
disorders
Quoted message said:walk nearly hand in hand. Fibromyalgia appears to be sort of a catch-all, although ackowledging
its existence is more than we did say... 10 or 15 years ago. It is something close to MS, yet
different. Something close to rheumatoid arthritis, yet also different. For me, it places me in a
powerchair on most occassions. I would guess that many people have
multiple
Quoted message said:problems along with fibro. That is what makes it difficult when it comes
to
Quoted message said:disability folks (even employer type disability systems) because they seemingly want to separate
each thing wrong with you and say, "Well, what
do
Quoted message said:we need to do to fix this, then that, then the other." They want to affix
an
Quoted message said:appropriate "cure" or "treatment" length to part of it, when, in fact,
it's
Quoted message said:the whole package that creates the over-extended problem--one that will
take
Quoted message said:multiple years to correct, if correction is even possible. Because it
isn't
Quoted message said:something that they can put their fingers on like a broken back or a heart condition, they
(meaning the pencil pushers that decide whether you can or cannot have treatment and/or
disability) often want to relegate it to
being
Quoted message said:psychosomatic, which is really absurd and you shouldn't let them do it.
Yes,
Quoted message said:overt stress aggravates the condition, but it does not create the
condition
Quoted message said:IMHO. At times, I would just *love* to give these disability examiners and/or insurance treatment
coordinators the gut wretching charlie horse
type
Quoted message said:muscle spasms that I get throughout my back, sides, neck, hips and chest
to
Quoted message said:these people. If each of them could go it for a month or so straight like
I
Quoted message said:have or have to live on the pain and/or sleep medications that are the
only
Quoted message said:things that seemingly relieve the symptoms, I'm sure they'd change their tune about it being
psychosomatic.
Exactly! I have a thyroid problem, diabetes, neuropathy and bad veins in my legs as well as the
fibro.. I've been told I should not/could not work. And yet I am not disabled. Why? Because aside
from the leg vein problem, there is always hope that I could get better. The Drs. keep wanting to
give me different meds, but all those do is mess me up to where I am totally non-functioning and
fairly well brain dead.
Quoted message said:
Anyway.... enough of a rant on the subject. I would be very interested in hearing the opinions of
others on this subject, though. How many folks out there are experiencing this type of trouble.
Oh... and there is a
newsgroup
Quoted message said:for fibromyalgia if anyone has interest.
I have been to that NG, but stopped going a while back when one particular woman kept picking
fights and drove a lot of us away. Don't know if she is still there or not. Perhaps I will look
again. I just got sick of seeing all her [censored] and having to sort through the posts looking for
something legit.
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