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Welcome ,

Yes, this is typical. Once pain starts one place it spreads all over.

> . This also all started as a flare-up (pain in one elbow that spread to the

> other and then to my whole body) and I don't know if that's typical or not.

>

The tender points are the way that fibro is determined to be fibro. I do not

know what Elatrolet is? You do need medication for pain and other problems

that come about because of fibro. Have you told him that you cannot take

your medication and need to change but by taking it only once is not giving

it a fair chance. Some medication take 4 to 6 weeks to build up in the

system. He does think something is wrong since he diagnosed it.

You need to have a talk with him and both of you decided what you going to

have to do medication wise with the fibro. If you two do not work well

together try another doctor. I am lucky in that I have had my rheumatologist

for a few years before fibro and that helps. We work together on medications

until (hopefully) we have it right as we seem to do now

I went to a rheumatologist who tested a bunch of points & based his diagnosis

on that. He prescribed Elatrolet, which I took only once -- that *did* make

me tired & now I'm back to being completely unmedicated & feel like my doctor

doesn't really think anything is wrong.

Take care,

Irene