I have had headache/neck/back pain for a long time, but since my sophmore and junior year of college I did chiropractic and massage regularly and I wrote it off as TMJ that was really bad, and then I had a super stressful awful time with my job during grad school and by the time I took another stressful job my wrists/forearms had major pain when I was 27 and I had the whole rhumetology panel etc and got labeled with fibro when all the other tests didn't pan out (and I have pain in all my tender points and TMJ, IBS, etc etc).
I have worn wrist braces since then and still do now, at the height of it I would wear them and bands around my forearms/above my elbow and I couldn't type but the bare minimum for work at the very worst.
I've gotten sicker over the years (I'm 31 now) but I am luckily still able to work full time.
I take gabapentine and muscle relaxers and they help me manage my pain a lot. I have tramadol but I find that's not very helpful unless it's pain from a secondary cause (like - sleeping on my bed at my parents house hurt my back/neck badly because it didn't have memory foam etc, so tramadol helped that).
I tried to go without medications for a couple years but I got so sick and in so much pain i had to do something or I wasn't going to keep being able to work. (I also developed some anxiety issues that may be related to my heart medication or just life in general and I resisted getting help for it because I feared getting addicted to xanax or anything else -- but I'm so glad I gave myself permission to take drugs that would help me because Xanax and then finding the right long term med have helped me so much! :/ nobody want sto be crying uncontrollably on an airplane for no discernible reason other than stress overload).
PS I also had viral meningitis when I was 2.5 years old and a few bad falls growing up - and I wonder if that has anything to do with this now.
I know, I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease earlier this year (February), because I had horrible burning when I would urinate. Went to the emergency room 3 times (because I was in a tiny town in Canada and it took a month to get an appointment at the campus clinic at my school, so we always just went to the emergency room), and they told me it was probably a yeast infection, then they thought maybe a urinary tract infection, and then pelvic inflammatory disease (I also saw 3 different doctors). Anyway, the last guy gave me an antibiotic that got rid of it, but I wonder if that triggered anything, on top of stress, on top of carrying too much for school, on top of bad posture, on top of...everything else. =D
I have worn wrist braces since then and still do now, at the height of it I would wear them and bands around my forearms/above my elbow and I couldn't type but the bare minimum for work at the very worst.
I've gotten sicker over the years (I'm 31 now) but I am luckily still able to work full time.
I take gabapentine and muscle relaxers and they help me manage my pain a lot. I have tramadol but I find that's not very helpful unless it's pain from a secondary cause (like - sleeping on my bed at my parents house hurt my back/neck badly because it didn't have memory foam etc, so tramadol helped that).
I tried to go without medications for a couple years but I got so sick and in so much pain i had to do something or I wasn't going to keep being able to work. (I also developed some anxiety issues that may be related to my heart medication or just life in general and I resisted getting help for it because I feared getting addicted to xanax or anything else -- but I'm so glad I gave myself permission to take drugs that would help me because Xanax and then finding the right long term med have helped me so much! :/ nobody want sto be crying uncontrollably on an airplane for no discernible reason other than stress overload).
PS I also had viral meningitis when I was 2.5 years old and a few bad falls growing up - and I wonder if that has anything to do with this now.
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