Greetin's to all on the 'Pain Gang'!

[barb dwyer]

ha!

Thanks so much for all the conversation about the fibro ...
I'm actually getting better about admitting it.
Just between us, however - I'm still convinced it's something else.

ANYWAY -

I've just started on that 'amiltryptyline'
(or howEVER it's spelled)
it still reminds me of whatever it is in Turkey that makes you pass out
halfway through the football game later....

and, following Desert Eyes' advice -
I got started out on a 'neensy' dose -
25 mg's or something miniscule instead of
the mind-blowing 100mg's of that 'gabby' stuff.

So far so good,
but I noticed something and am wondering about it -

food doesn't taste right.

meaning it doesn't taste like ... it always has.
I can't eat meat - at ALL.
meat tastes... like roadkill smells.

serious!

and eggs -
I couldn't even break one.
The thought ran through my head
about rooster sem** capsules....
and that , as they say -
was that.

The only thing I 'want' to eat is fruit and veggies.

I decided I'm not gonna mention it to the doc
until I'm the OTHER side of the thirty...
(who am I kidding ) FIFTY pounds
(practicing rigorous honesty here)
I gained while going undiagnosed
with the thyroid.

Just wondering if anyone else is on this -
and did YOU have the anti-food thing as well?

I mean, I opened a 'dum dum' sucker last weekend
just to have something to help with the bad taste in my mouth
(which *is* in the paperwork about the drug..that and cottonmouth)
and it tasted
just
like
FISH!



LOL!

Could make for an INTERESTING thanksgiving, I tell ya that!!!

[barb dwyer]

Pumpkin Pie better taste like it's supposed to ...

[DesertEyes]

Hey Barb

Side effects suck.

I'm not on that particular med, I'm on Depakote and it makes me nauseus. The trick to all these meds is that the side effects start out hard and then wear off in a few weeks. It takes me _four_ weeks for a raise in dose to "settle in" and the side effects to wear off.

You might want to write down when you started on the med, and then every week write down if the side effects are lightening up or staying the same. Every person reacts differently, so just cuz it takes me four weeks doesn't mean it will be the same for you.

I'd suggest a couple months, because you're just starting out on the med. If the side effects stay the same all the way thru then holler at your doc and see what other meds you can try. Each med has different side effects, so it really pays to experiment until you find one that works good for you.

Mike

[barb dwyer]

Thanks Mike -

that's a great idea!

Like I say - I'm not going to bother with anyting other than gratitude until the OTHER side of fifty pounds ...

But my neighbor came over today and she said she was mad at me 'cuz I've been really dropping the weight.

Good go ahead and BE mad, then- LOL!

[funma]

Hi barb, I was on it too but I never had a weird taste in my mouth or food taste strange.
Have you googled it yet?

[barb dwyer]

nope - I'm gonna let it keep grossing me out about food
until I can get back in my 'real' jeans
which I swore I'd throw away but couldn't make my self do.

LOL!!!!!

[funma]

LMAO!!!
You go girl!!
My mom has fibro and she uses essential oils for therapy...You could google that.
Laura

[barb dwyer]

essential oils... that makes sense!

The more I look into this -
the major *spiritual cause* type of thing
that's coming to me is -

it's a manifestation of symptoms
that force the person
to care about /for themselves.

kinda like diabetes
teaches the person
to be sweet to themselves
kind of thing.

remember that I was raised by a family of
spiritualists, mystics and herbal healers.
All trying to come off like they were regular people.

Let's talk dysfunctional.

*YOU* were allowed to read Dr. Seuss.
*I* got to read Edgar Cayce.
LOL

*YOU* got given a flavored children's aspirin for a headache
*I* got told to do a pressure point and a yoga posture.

LOL

so that makes perfect sense to me
and if you're gonna treat something
that is forcing you to care for yourself
then a oil application
would only benefit
the situation!