AM I GOING TO GET WORSE???

Becca

Minor car accident

Whiplash injury

neck continued to hurt

headaches started

developed tmj, Trigeminal neuralgial,occipital neualgia

over the next few months into the next yr dev multiple

sysmptoms that were then dx as fibro

Why me?

No one has the answer to that. I had never

had more than a cold or a sore throat.

The week before the accident-I worked 61hrs

as a nurse in a very stressful job.

Sandi

As for disability, work as long as you can. It keeps you somewhat active and with purpose however, prepare your medical files as if you were going to apply tomorrow. Make sure all your symptoms are recorded in your records, obtain copies of all your medical records and keep them updated, keep a personal diary of how you feel on a daily basis and the days/hours you miss work because of your symptoms and inform your doctor each and every time you visit them and be sure that, that information is put in your medical records as well. If you don't know if it will be, ask them to do so.

Make sure all your doctors from PCP to Specialist, knows you have been diagnosed with FM and that they record your symptoms as well. There is more that you can and should do to prepare, but I can't remember right now. Sorry.

Disability can take a long time and is a lot of work. If I knew what I know now, things would be easier for me, unfortunately, I have to gather information as if I was just starting and seeing a new doc.

Good luck to you. There are many friendly people here willing to offer what advice they can.

I suggest you already start to take care of yourself on all levels- physically, spiritually and emotionally- NOW.

I had mild fibro for over 10 year but ended up in a very stressful and emotional place in my life that put me in a flare up so bad I had to quit working.

Long story short I have improve some but never to the point before the flareup. I wasn't taking very good care of myself. I was a work-a-holic and oftened keyed up with anxiety. The end result was a worse condition of fibro.

Like I said- take care of yourself NOW and don't under estimate this condition. I did and I landed on my A@#$$$ big time!

I've mentioned this too many times before but the last job I worked for almost 3 years and then I was starting to flare. I was stressed there and I was planning my wedding. I finally resigned because the employers were not very accomedating even though they knew I had fibro. So- now I've been out of work almost 6 months and I am afraid of going to another stressful job.

My body and mind can't handle stress and every job has stress so what do you do? I know how it is to feel trapped and in fear of it getting worse.

Wish I had some good food for thought but I'm in the same position. I also have fears that my previous employer will give me a poor reference.

I'm like you - I have always tried to remind myself "It's not supposed to kill me!" And, I also realize that God is in charge of that anyhow. If it's my time, there's not much I can do about it. So, I'm trying to find the positive in this (even though this is such a struggle for me). I started drawing again. I had not had time to do that in a long while. I actually wanted to major in art in college, but was talked out of it. Instead I minored in it. My hands get tired, but I work a little at a time. I have enjoyed looking at things on a different level. I never slowed down long enough before. My plate was always full and I stayed wound tight. I would like to think that one day I might be able to work again. But I'm like meleggs - I think every job has some stress level to it, and I CAN'T handle stress.

Anyhow,

I also hope that by all of us telling our stories it will generate enough interest to finally have someone take this seriously and find a cure.