How's everyone today?

[Guest guest]

Goodmorning everyone,

Well I have been reading as many of the emails I can. We are a chatty

bunch! I guess I have to say that I am very thankful that I still have my

mobility. I feel so sad by those of you that are in much worse shape than I am.

Most of the time my pain is just shooting pains that are annoying, and the

stiffness doesn't last long though it's severe for just a bit anytime I sit or

lie down for 15 minutes or more. I get by. I am tired all the time, but then

again I have been tired for so many years it's just normal to be. I just keep

moving until the sun goes down and then I am out. I am so happy when it's

winter time because I knock off earlier. My family hates it. LOL! All in all

though I am thankful that I still garden, shop, clean house, mosaic, check my

email, and play with my littlest one, and let's not forget fight with my

teenagers LOL!

I bought a book about Fibro yesterday. It's a book that talks all about

herbal medicines only. I am unsure which direction I will go. I am still

waiting to hear back from doctor about my blood tests to rule out other things.

It's irritating! I call and leave messages and then nothing. I guess I can

assume I am not dying from some blood cancer! Geeesh. If I was I think I would

probably keel over before they get their behinds around to calling. That

reminds me! The last time I was pregnant I had the worst insurance company.

They never paid my claims without trying to deny them first. They eventually

paid them all, but the last ones weren't paid until she was 6 months old. They

had this well pregnancy program I was supposed to take part in. It was supposed

to start as soon as I found out which was when I was just 2 weeks pregnant.

They didn't tell me about the program until I was about a week from delivering.

How stupid is that?! A couple of years before that, I received enrollment

papers for a well pregnancy program a month after I miscarried.

My point to all this about slow doctors and worthless insurance companies is

this... On one hand it may be cheaper to work with the doc. I pay 15 dollars

for generic drugs, and 25 for non generic. Herbs can get extremely pricey and I

would be paying all of that expense. But with the herbs I can just shop the

health food stores, read books, and take care of myself. Then again, I read the

lists of medicines all of you are taking and I could never afford to keep up

with the co-payments for all of that! What do those of you do that have no

income? How do you get your meds? How do you live? I am shaking my head with

wonder about all of this.

I just don't understand how the medical community can't find anything to

prove how sick we are. How can someone who is in pain all the time, has

irritible bowels, irritible bladder, and chronically fatigued just to name a

few, not have bloodwork that shows that something is out of whack?

Oh yeah... the book I bought said that 75% of people with Fibro also have

mitro valve prolapse. If 75% of us have a heart problem, then I would think

that alone would prove that we have serious problems. That is a scary

percentage. I wonder if it's right? I am going to talk to my doctor about the

mpv the next time that I get back to him. I have a lot of heart disease in my

family history. I don't want to wait another 15 years to be diagnosed with

something that is treatable now.

ttyl

Suzi