Poll for Members' With Fibro

[PlateletGal]

I was just wondering how many of you would support a "Living with FIBRO/CFS" board ?  I know there are so many similarities with our conditions and many people who have fibro often have signs of CFS and vice versa.

Please let me know what you think and if you guys would like another board, then we can notify Med Help.

[LLWB]

I quit for 3 weeks recently to help my cervical dis fusion. Then went right back. I find it almost impossible to quit, once quit for 3 years, then went back., I know that it does increase the pain. It contracts your blood vessels, so you aren't getting oxygen to your cells. Amazing that the surgeon general advises quitting smoking, and the government subsidizes tobacco farmers. Fibro sucks.

[Julie07]

HOW DID YOU QUIT SMOKING????  

[PlateletGal]

I agree with you about the lyme testing. I did hear something interesting though last week about lyme disease. I can't remember the source, but they said that if you've have had lyme disease for a long time, then you will never test positive for lyme disease. I do know that both Fibro and CFS patients' have had bacteria detected (mycoplasma) in their tissues. That probably explains why a fibro tissue bank recently was set up in Phoenix, AZ.

[PAIN in FL]

Check aggressively into Lyme Disease with an Infectious Disease Doctor literate in Lyme Disease.  FM can be cause by Lyme or a misdiagnosis thereof.  I am currently in the process of the whole Lyme situation after having been diagnosed with FM 2+ yrs ago.  I have suffered severely for over 6 yrs and progressively have gotten REAL bad, (currently on Fentanyl patches).   I am just curious if that might point you in the right direction. Good Luck & let me know!

[Jade59]

That comment to PlateletGal re: laying down to use the computer was obviously for you.  I'll get this
right.  I am certainly completly stressed out now so I should stop and go to bed.  

[Jade59]

OK try again.  I have seen you on other sites or responding to others on this site and you seem very
knowledgable so I would love to hear from you.  This is such an AMAZING tool, I only discovered this
a few weeks ago (chat rooms and the internet period) and I am in awe at all the information at hand.
I am still trying to figure out how to post w/o it breaking up.  Your laying down to use the computer?  
I wonder how that works?