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| hello all my name is Maggie and I have been dealing with chronic pain my whole life but that story is very long so I won't do that to you all. but the short story version is that for the last 20 years I have been plagued with horendous migraines and joint and muscle pain but just figured it was a family history thing but they got worse and I ended up on morphine for 7 years with lortab also muscle relaxants etc. well in the last 2 years my favorite dr. went full time in the hospital and left me with no dr.so I had to find another one well anyone on medicaid know that is alot of bs trying to find one that will accept it, so when i did i put up with it until the dr called me a drug addict and i had been off the morphine fore almost 2 years so i didn't go back to her but I found a great nurse practioner in the last couple of months and she listened to me and said lets try lyria mind you I had been on a bunch of other stuff but it has given me my life back i am now on the track I start a new job on the 29th of april and I wouldn't have thought it posible. so thats my story in a nutshell so to speak. |
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Maggie, I am new to this too... been reading but this is my first post. You said you have chronic migraines so you may have already been down this road... but my fiance had migraines for years and no medication helped, so they finally ordered an MRI (he had scans and such in the past but never found anything). The MRI showed a rare genetic condition that is very often misdiagnosed. It's called a chiari malformation. If you have never had relief from migraine medication I would urge you to do some research and even if you have had an MRI I would also urge you to ask the doctor to look for this (at the base of the skull/brain, the cerebellum doesn't have enough room and ends up going down into the spinal column). If you have some time I would do some research on this condition. My fiance had brain surgery to correct his 2 months ago and has been nearly pain free ever since! Good luck with your job! I have endometriosis and have chronic pain due to the scar tissue that grows in my abdomen... it's not easy, but at least we have some support in this group! |
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| | From:  CyndyK2 | Sent: 4/21/2008 3:37 PM |
Hello Maggie, and welcome to the family! : ) We have another Maggie who also has chronic migraines, along with other pain conditions; she lives in Australia. I wanted to let you know you should post in the General message board; this section is just for people to post a biography so they don't have to keep repeating their history there. LOL I'm glad I checked, though, or I wouldn't have found you! Watch out for fluid retention with the Lyrica; that's one of its side effects, I understand. I'm glad you're getting relief from the migraines, though; that's good.
Cyndy |
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| | | From: Hannah. | Sent: 4/22/2008 4:43 AM |
Welcome Maggie! I am really glad that you have found a med that helps you so much that you can actually go to work! That is wondeful! As Cyndy mentioned, you may want to pop over to the General Board and say howdy over there too. |
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| | | From: Dan | Sent: 4/23/2008 12:56 AM |
Welcome, Maggie. And you too, Samantha. (I assume you're Samantha by your e-mail address... ) Gosh, two new members at the same time. Well, two posters, anyway. Let us know if you have any questions, OK? Hugs and lots of love, Dan |
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Hi Maggie! What a wonderful happiness fills our life when we feel we have gotton our life back, maybe not fully but much more then we had before. Before others helped me discover what I could eat with my IBS I was scared and depressed. So little could I eat. Suffer, Suffer, Suffer! Now I am eating much better, not perfect, and I hope to find better meal ideas to hopefully tolerate, but for me, my life is good, even with IBS which will never go away! Hang in there, I wish you happiness. Raymond. |
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