Too many diseases and lots of pain

[bethjeanne]

I have quite a few medical conditions; Juvenile Rhematiod Arthritis, Osteo, Fibromyalagia, Carpal tunnel , IBS, Chronic Hepatitis C, Post tramatic stress disorder( from abuse as a child and other abuse ), High blood pressure, congestive heart failure, Possible sleep apnea, both knee needing replaced, and I am in severe pain from knees and can barely walk any more. I have trouble sleeping supposedly from he PTSD so am on ambien. which helps sometimes. I have had health problems since I was a baby. Pnemonia four times before one yr. I cant work and am trying to get back on disability. How can I cope with the pain?? I have been in apin most of my life but it is becoming unbearable.

[rrobby37]

Western medicine does not deal with many infections for one reason or another yet some find relief with cloves,black wallnut husk or diatameasious earth.

[nutrinut_bob]

Ewford is quite right, an overlooked infection, one that mainstream medicine doesn't as of yet acknowledge, might be the problem.  Arthritis is the young is so unusual.  I acquired a mycoplasma infection at the age of 11.  Since I was mostly around older people and often heard their complaints of painful joints, I thought what I was experiencing was normal.  By the time I was 15 my shoulders would fall out of joint.  When I was in my 30s a chiropractor told me my lower disc looked like someone that was in their 80s!  Were I you, I would seek out a doctor that has experience with Lyme Disease and/or mycoplasma infections, perhaps there's a LLMD in your area.

[ewford]

did one of your parents have RA or Fibro like illness?  If you have had this since a baby it could have been transfered from the placental blood from mother to child through cord blood.  Lymes and coinfections COULD be a possibility.  All your symptoms match.