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[Guest guest]

Good morning!

I have lurked here on this group for awhile now. I worked over an

hour away from home and had little time for myself but my job ended

1/30 so I now have more time to read and visit.

I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Patty and I live in SC. I

don't want to bore you with a lot of details but I was so interested

in the posting of Rheumatic Fever, heart murmurs and RA. I had RF as

a baby and have a heart murmur from it. I am now 47 years old and

about 15 years ago I started having very bad back pain, just from

time to time at that point. I saw doctors and they thought it was

simply muscle pulls at that point. But it got worse and worse and

started to happen more frequently. So now, I am at the point where I

have very bad issues with my back and that has been my major health

problem. I also have problems with my hands, which I was told was

arthritis but also Fibromyalgia. So, I continue having issues with

my back and I visit a pain clinic once a month, and a vascular

specialist once a month. I have been working with the latter over a

year now. He is the one who diagnosed me with Fibro and several

issues with nerves. I TAKE Loratab, Plavix, Lyrica, etc. and I also

see an integrative specialist for nutritional supplements to see if

that will help. I have severe back pain when the weather is going to

be bad and that is at this point, one of my biggest issues...nothing

I take helps it. But my hands are getting worse and that is another

issue. The issue of brain fog with the Fibro is a new problem and I

would be interested if anyone else suffers from that, if you take

anything for it, etc. Mine is starting to get o bad I write little

notes to myself and can not remember where the notes are!

So, having made a long story longer, I hope to learn from you all and

see how you function with these issues. Thank you for reading and

this group!

Patty