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Suggest Treatment For Fibromyalgia

A few years ago, I was beginning a diagnostic treatment for what I thought was fibromyalgia. My doctor began me on a series of antidepressants to rule out depression as a cause of the pains I was feeling. I stopped taking antidepressants because I don t like the way they make me feel, and I wasn t depressed. My common ailments include random nerve pain throughout my body, like the feeling someone is taking a nerve from both ends and pulling it slightly, headaches, a foggy feeling trying to remember facts and details, increased tiredness. The nerve pains bother me more than anything, I could be doing something simple such as driving down the road when a nerve pain will begin flashing in a random area of my body for a couple minutes, usually close to major joints (Wrists, ankles, knees, neck).This sounds like typical fibromyalgia from my research but I can t be sure.
Mon, 17 Jul 2017
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Antidepressants are the second most effective medicine for fibromyalgia and the findings in fibromyalgia and depression with body symptoms are identical in every way. The mood changes are generally NOT noticed by the person as much as those around her.

The most effective is exercise. It works in multiple ways.
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Suggest Treatment For Fibromyalgia

Antidepressants are the second most effective medicine for fibromyalgia and the findings in fibromyalgia and depression with body symptoms are identical in every way. The mood changes are generally NOT noticed by the person as much as those around her. The most effective is exercise. It works in multiple ways.