I am 17. My life has been essentially ruined by this damned condition.
I can't get a job, I can't have friends,and may not even be able to participate in my one real passion: Band.

Please, if you know ANY treatments, medications (that don't make you feel like your internal organs are fixing to come out through my mouth), ore even non-conventional treatments, ANYTHING, let me know....
I take several medications, and have half @$$ed physical therapy, but it's nowhere near enough.

Please, it's ruining my life.
Sheena
*P.S. I am very poor, anything very low cost?
btw, the Oklahoma healthcare system is really screwed up. They're very "anal-retentive".
lol
in other words,it takes an order from God to get Physical Therapy (which, thank God, I have), or any other "non-conventional" treatments, as they say...lol. They're nuts.

I am a twenty-one year old, female, diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and REM sleep disorder. My Dr. is now questioning the possibility of Myofascial Pain Syndrome... In the past I have tried physical therapy, acupuncture and multiple prescribed medications both for the pain and the sleep problems... none have been quite sufficient or cost effective, in the long run... any suggestions?

My mother is 78 years old. She is a type 2 diabetic. She is having severe pain in here thighs. They are in the form of spasms. They come sitting, lying or when trying to walk. She has been to emergency room at Kaiser 3 times in the last week. They have given her morphine, codine and other drugs which don't work. Vascular insufficiency? intermittent claudication? diabetic neuropathy? We have received many diagnoses from radiation damage to nerve endings from cancer treatments to complications with diabetees. Is there a pain center or some specialist in so. cal. Can this pain ever be stopped? Can diabetic neuropathy be this bad in the thighs. Can physical therapy help. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.