Gina's Journal
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November 03, 2008
My Fibro and Stress
My fibro has really been acting up this week really bad, it started in my legs and then the fibr fog set in extremely bad. I cannot think and I get so frustrated. I'm not sure if my new boyfriend breaking up with me has anything to do with it this time or not. But last weekend he broke up with me and I have been very down and depressed all week.
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October 15, 2008
Is this connected to my fibro or something else?
I am having a problem that I dont know if it is connected with the fibro or my diabetes or what. Ok it started in 99 when I started taking a new diabetes pill Advandia, literally 2 weeks to the day of starting the medicine my sex drive went from way high to literally none at all. I was only on the medicine for a month, then I got off of it. Well now here it is 2008 I still have no sex drive and the doctors cannot figure out why. They have run all my hormone levels and everything is normal but I have no sex drive at all. Does any other woman out there with fibro have the same problem?
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August 28, 2008
Being Judged!!!!!!!!!
I can't stand it when people judge you based on someone else with the same condition. I have fibromyalgia, my little sister has MS, I got into an argument with my boyfriend because I had said I was going to fill the smaller mustard jars from the big one, but I didn't do it because I realized the pump thingy in the big jug was too short to reach into the bottom and to me it was going to be too much trouble to do. Then he said well that's when you use a funnel, well that's all fine and dandy but I forgot about using a funnel, which is what fibro fog does to us. Then he brought up the nurse that we had met at the colonoscopy center. She and I had started talking about the fact that we both have fibromyalgia, and we discussed several things including me being unsafe to drive now my bf was there and heard the whole conversation, but only remembered what he wanted to remember the fact that she has fibro and she is still working, that she doesn't have the "fog" , and that even she said we are all not the same that just because she can still work, doesn't mean that everyone with the condition still can and after we talked she said that it sounded like I don't need to out there trying to drive or work etc. Well my bf and I got into the argument because he FEELS since she can work with this condition that I should be able to that I have given up and that I am letting the fibro rule my life etc etc etc and the same goes for my sister who has MS has only been diagnosed with it a little over a year, and haas already been put on disability because her dr does not want her even tryin to work, etc but he FEELS that she should be able to work and function etc because one of The Osmond brothers has it and is going on a world tour with his brothers and sister. Why can't he get it through his damn thick head that these 2 diseases are as unique as the people who are afflicted with them? -
August 08, 2008
What other people cannot understand
Ok I have had this stupid condition ever since 1994 or at least that's when I was told what it was. I was in nursing school, and almost made it all the way through school. Until I injured my back because I forgot that I was supposed to move with the patient when doing a transfer, so instead I twist my back and lo and behold I did it, I ruptured the disc at L-4 and L-5. This was done at the beginning of school in September, I make it through to May, get my graduating gown and everything, then my back totally gives out, and I start falling down,etc. So I had to make the toughest desicion of my career, before I cost my instructor's their licenses, so I dropped out of school wih only 3 months left! So ok I've been out of school since 1997, I"ve had my back surgery, and also have had my neck fused at C-5,C-6,and C-7. I meet a nurse the other day when having my colonoscopy done, that has fibro, and went off of disability and went back to work, and as we talked we discussed the "fibro fog" and other aspects of this condition. Well ok the point I'm trying to make in this whole thing is what my fiance said, he said that if I really wanted to I could go back to school and finish and become a nurse, just because we met someone who still can still do it. He also gripes because I really don't do anything around the house, except sit here on the computer, he doesn't understand that it hurts too much even though I an=m on Lyrica and other meds, he doesn't understand that I don't sleep well at night and that that's the reason I have chosen to sleep in the living room to try to get as much sleep as I can possibly get. Why can't people who do not have this condition understand those of us that do and be more supportive instead of condescending? -
August 08, 2008
Another Life Gone
Every body says it comes in three, but who would've ever thought it would be from the same household! First last November it was my Aunt Barbara, then in March her husband John Sr, and now today their son John Jr. he had an insulin reaction and drowned. For a bit we thought he might make it, because the coast guard got him to the hospital while he was still alive, they worked on him, to no avail.