I think I just have really sensitive skin, but I was wondering if it had to do with my fibro.  It feels like nails on a chalkboard when I touch anything anymore.  I can't do the dishes at all, (even though I wear those thick yellow rubber gloves)  I can't take clothes out of the washer, I can't help my 5 year old wash her hair.  Anything that has ( Read more... )

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my name is nora. i just turned 26 and i'm from brooklyn NY. but i've gone to school ( forever ::headdesk::) upstate NY, about 2 hours from canada. and i love dutchess county ( good memories down there). I love acting, writing, singing...in terms of phys. activity --i love swimming and volleyball. and i took leave of my senses ( Read more... )

Somebody posted this on an FMS yahoo group.  It's the most complete list of symptoms that I've seen.  It even lists the bumps that I get that I haven't found mentioned anywhere.  I'm going to print this out & give it to my  pcp.  Here's the link to the list:http://www.fibrofix.com/

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Hello everyone, I just joined because I think I have fibromyalgia. I have had unresolved back pain for about the past four or five years (I'm currently 17), and have been to pretty much every specialist known to man and no one can seem to figure out why I'm in so much pain. My back has the most amount of pain in my body, but I have aches and pains ( Read more... )

One theory about the cause of FMS is trauma.. & for the life of me, I couldn't think of any trauma that I had near the onset of my symptoms.. then it just poped into my head last night.. when *was* it that I had that riding accident?? Some years ago I got thrown/fell from a horse as itr spontaneously decided to break into a run.. I was in the ( Read more... )

For about sixteen months now, I've had this *thing* on the inside of my right ring finger. It comes and goes, but when it "goes," my skin still looks odd, like a healing burn. Anyway, I mentioned it to the rheumy and to my PCP, and the rheumy has mentioned getting a biopsy done on it. Today, it came back in full force, and the edge of it looks ( Read more... )