First Year of Living with Pain

May 14th, 2009

I can still remember the first year I had fibromyalgia before the lupus was diagnosis I felt like I was losing my mind. It took a long time for my doctor to listen to me that my pain was real and I finally had to beg him to give me something for the pain. I told him it was getting to the point that I could not stand the pain while working and it was interfering with my life. He was apprehensive to give me something at first, but he finally caved and gave me tramadol for my pain. I was able to learn what you should know about tramadol drug online because I wanted to still be able to function at work. I looked up all the side effects and if I would be able to take the medication without falling asleep. When I was on the medication I was not able to buy tramadol blue book . When I was taking it they only had the brand name, but since then they have a generic it’s cheaper and more people can afford to buy the medication on a budget. It was not an easy year to find out I had to deal with this pain every single day of my life. It wasn’t much longer that I learned that I had lupus.


No Responses to “First Year of Living with Pain”

  1. dessy on May 15, 2009 3:32 am

    I’m very concerned with your illness and pain.
    I don’t know much about lupus, shame on me… I’ll learn from your blog
    Stay strong and keep the hope :)

  2. chronicchick on May 17, 2009 12:56 am

    Dessy,
    You can go to the Lupus Foundation to find out information on lupus

  3. Tina on May 18, 2009 12:38 pm

    I’ve been living with this for four and a half years now. It is sooooooo frustrating! I do not have an “official” diagnosis of Lupus but my rheumatologist says that’s what it is. I guess I should be thankful that I don’t have enough symptoms for an “offical” diagnosis though. I have positive ana, mouth ulcers, all over muscle and joint pain/swelling, fatigue, chronically low vitamin D – (starting a RX for that again) hair loss and Raynaud’s disease. I am usually very upbeat but today I am just beat! :-) I am tired of living with daily pain that is invisible to everyone else!I just needed to vent a little and I appreciate that you have this site! Thanks!!!

  4. Diane J Standiford on May 18, 2009 10:27 pm

    Isn’t life swell? Makes one wonder why? Why not give me parkinson’s too? Why stop now? Geez, we gotta just laugh sometimes, I know with FMS even crying can hurt. Had a friend at old job, she had FMS, then Lupus, then died suddenly of a heart attack. I guess life just wants us to keep guessing.

  5. chronicchick on May 18, 2009 11:46 pm

    Diane,
    Yeah, it all does seem to hit you in the face like a pack of bricks. Yeah FMS can even hurt when someone hugs you too.
    CC

  6. chronicchick on May 18, 2009 11:48 pm

    Tina,
    I know what you mean when you say its frustrating. Somedays I just feel like I’m going crazy.The most frustrating part is being exhausted walking across the room at times. The joint pain is just horriable.
    CC

  7. ConnieFoggles on May 20, 2009 8:58 am

    I used to take Ultram for pain but those pills made me loopier than I am with the brain fog from the Fibro. I would forget that I said something a minute after I said it. Thank goodness I didn’t drive then! Now I have a rhuematologist who actually treats my Fibro pain with injection when I need them. What a relief!

  8. chronicchick on May 21, 2009 12:09 am

    Connie Foggles,
    Yeah, Some medications give you strange reactions.
    CC

  9. Deet on June 5, 2009 7:33 am

    i’m a 69 yr old woman, living in pain also.
    I have Fibro too among other things. I have
    Stenosis of my back,that alone is painful.

    I guess all of you are a lot younger than myself.
    I feel fooliss complaning of my pain. Sorry to do that.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Dee

  10. chronicchick on June 5, 2009 11:30 pm

    Deet,
    Don’t ever feel folish complaing about your pain. It does something to you when you live with pain day after day with little relief. I’ll say a pray for you.
    CC

  11. Deet on June 6, 2009 3:48 pm

    Thanks so much cc. Very nice of you to be so
    thoughful.

    Dee

  12. chronicchick on June 6, 2009 11:44 pm

    Deet,
    Your welcome,we all need encouragement.

  13. Dee on June 8, 2009 3:48 am

    You know that saying is soo true. You don’t
    know what you have until you lose it.

    Some things we all take for granted at one
    time or another,but then whn its not there,only
    then do we realise how blessed we are.

  14. chronicchick on June 14, 2009 10:43 pm

    So True, So True

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