LYNN IS BACK AGAIN

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Hi everyone.

It has been a long time-I read alot of new people are on this group which is

always

good.We need as many different types of people as possible to keep it diverse.

I have to admit I have been reading your posts for the past few days--and I had

forgoten

how much alike we all are--and what simular symptoms as well.

For the newbies==i am a 47 year old nurse who no longer can work secondary to an

array

of problems-like many of you my list of diagnosis goes on and

on-arthritis-(?RA)-

sjogrens-fibromyalgia-chronic fatigue ?lupus yada yada yada----

I do have to take a narcotic-i take vicodin es 2 times a day just to take the

edge off the

pain--i did go off that for over a month--to see if that was causing my

falling--but it

wasn't--i still fell and had a lot more pain..it has been difficult to make the

doctors

understand that if i do not have this medication i can not get out of bed--but

my new

primary understands and says thats not even a lot to be on...so dont try to make

me feel

weak because i need them!!!

I actually have a psychologist who comes to my house every week to deal with

pain

management--which i suggest everyone get---being in pain ect...plays with the

mind.My

doctor just ordered a Physical Therapist to come to my house 3 times a week--he

came

today for the first time and was very smart/he also is going to get me a shower

bar and

toilet bars--i know alot of you dont like the equipment that comes with these

illnesses-

but it is alot better than asking for hlp or falling--he tells me that i have

good range of

motion--probably from the gentle yoga stretching I do--which iI also

recommend--on

bad days I can do these stretches right on my bed..

well enough about me ...i look foward to hearing from some of you and if you

ever need

someone to talk to I am here--you can vent on me all you want........lynn8953