RE: new here, just testing the water~Welcome~

[Guest guest]

Hi I'm and I didn't ketch your name but that's OK!! I know the emotional

struggles too well myself.

I sat in a recliner for over a year in unending pain before I bothered to see a

Dr. only to be DISmissed and I resented that Dr. and still do to some extent but

that's my problem if I choose to live in it. Today I choose to live in the

solution and that is FINDING a solution wherever I can. I have found the

solution to the NOT

suffering alone when I joined this group.

I take alot of pills for part of the solution and I have a Fibro Dr. that gives

me steriodial Trigger Point injections,

Lyrica,Hydocodone(which by the way isn't near strong enough for the severe pain)

Adderall for the fatigue and a little understanding.

I HOPE YOU find the love, Encouragement and Support that I have found since I

joined back in April 07!!

Bless YOU ! ! ! . . . ....................................... . . .

S. E.

Arkansas

GOD grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot

change the courage to change the things I canand the wisdom to know the

difference. Amen ! ! !

To: Fibromyalgia_Support_Group@...: quiquihatch@...:

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:58:18 +0000Subject: new here, just testing the water

Hi I'm from Ca. sierra mountains. I've had the Fibro disease for 21 years. I've

dealt with it on my own for the last 19 years. After 3 years of it, every-one I

loved started to disappear, except my children. It was too hard for them. I have

trouble making new friends because I can't commit to anything. I don't know from

day to day how I will feel. I tried joining a couple of dating services for the

disabled but everyone I liked was on the other side of the country. Then I found

you, and thought it would be nice if for the first time in 21 years I was

surrounded by people that are living with the same monster as me. So here I am,

hi. The one thing I can give you is something a doctor gave me 11 years ago. I

hated him for it and even stopped seeing doctors for a while because his advice

made me so angry. He said that I needed to separate my pain from my emotions.

What a crock, right, wrong. Over 3 years of trying, it just happened. My body

and all it's pain and fatigue became nothing more than a package I was limited

by, but my emotions became freed. I can, for the past 8 years, be happy to hold

a new born chick or watch the sun go down, no matter how messed up my body is

that day. My spirit is finally free from the emotional roller coast that my body

use to dictate to my spirit. I know that you are most likely thinking what a

crock, and that's okay, but I am hoping that at least one of you will find your

happiness again, at least 80% of the time. As for me I am mostly struggling with

the loneliness that comes with our society and their view of a person with an

imperfect body, forgetting that there is a person inside. I wish to have

some-one special in my life but can not seem to find him, because he can not get

past my limitations. To be honest if I do find some-one special, I will most

likely devote all of my energy to him and my family, but for now I would like to

just have some non-prejudice friends around to chat with and maybe build a

couple of lifelong friendships.

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