HI EVERYONE , MY CHIROPRACTOR SENT ME BACK TO MY DOCTOR AS HE THINKS I HAVE PMR MY ESR AND CK BLOOD TEST HAVE CAME BACK OK ?
I GET A LOT OF PAIN IN MY MUSCLES ALL OVER MY BODY , AT MOMANT THE PAIN IS BAD IN NECK AND ARMS , I GET ACHING PAINS IN MY TOES , FEET , LEGS ASWELL , HE HAS TAKEN ME OF ONE OF MY TABLETS FOR REFLUX AND GAVE ME ANOTHER TABLE WITCH IS GIVING ME MORE HEARTBURN ? ITS VERY CONFUSING AS I HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ANGINA AND SOME TIMES YOU DONT KNOW WHERE THE PAIN IS COMING FROM , I ALSO HAVE IBS HAVE HAD THIS FOR 10 YAERS , MY DOCTOR SAID HE WOULD START TEST FOR PMR IN JANUARY IF I STILL FEEL THE SAME 
IS PMR AN FIBROMYALGIA THE SAME ILLNESS AS THEY SOUND IT , I AM 49 MARRIED WITH TWO KIDS 18 YEAR OLD AND ONE AT 22 MY HUSBAND IS SUPPORTING ME BUT I DONK THINK HE REALLY KNOWS THE PAIN I GO THROUGH , I AM ALSO TRYING TO HOLD DOWN A FULL TIME SALES JOB WITCH IM FINDING VERY STRESSFULL .
JANE
Hi Jane
Welcome to the fibro group. Im sure eveyone will welcome you soon.
You will have to give me the full wording as I can't work out what PMR stands for?
I have SLE , Sjorgen Syndrome, overactive thyroid and most likely fibro.
ESR is a guide to swelling and mine always comes back normal even when I am bad, its only a guide. My ESR is only tested because of the SLE. As far as I am aware fibro has no blood tests to help guide the GP its purely diagnosed on symptoms.
It is really hard to get on with life when you are in constant pain, I come on hear as I don't like to burden my hubby with my constant illnesses so if you want to come along and chat it does help and they are all such a friendly bunch, they have all helped me through the good and the rough times.
I am 44 and have 4 teenage children.
Take care,
Lizzy
HI LIZZIE
ITS CALLED POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA ,
MY ESR CAME BACK A 7 WHAT EVER THAT MEANS , DOCTOR SAID PMR SOME TIMES DOESNT SHOW UP IN YOUR BLOODS , HE WILL DO MORE TEST IN JANUARY AND ILL WILL JUST HAVE TO SUFFER TILL THEN , ITS NOT EASY AS I WORK FULL TIME AND GOING INTO THE BUSSIEST TIME OF YEAR FOR US I HAVE HAD A LOT OF DIFFRENT PROBLEMS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS BUT DIDNT REALISE TILL RECENTLY THAT THEY ALL COULD BE LINKED .
I TRY NOT TO GO ON ABOUT IT TO MY HUSBAND AS I FEEL IM MOONING ALL THE TIME , GOT TWO KIDS 18 AND 22 AS YOU WILL PROBLY NOW WITH 4 TEENAGERS IN THE HOUSE ITS NOT EASY AS MINE ARE LAZY AND WANT ME CLEANING UP AFTER THEM ,WITCH I TRY NOT TO .
THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME MOANING ON ITS NICE TO TALK TO YOU
TAKE CARE
JANE
Hi Jane,
I hope you are not feeling too bad today.
Its a good place to talk about how we feel as we are all going through similar things and have a better understanding of how it feels. People don't want to hear about how we feel all the time so thats why I chat on here.
From what I can gather the ESR test is only a guide and can be up durring disease activity or go up after the activity has stopped or just stay normal. Mine is normally between 7 and 12.
From what I can gather fibro is more like a neuro problem and responds to different tablets to arthuritis. Fibro is treated with pain killers and very low dose of antidepressants.I think you will find arthuritis is treated with a different type of tablets. Fibro can also have other problems associated with it. Thats IBs, fuzzy brain, suffer with anxiety and depression and a whole load of other things like in some people poor thyroid function.
Fibro needs gentle exercise, learn to pace yourself, stress can make it worse and to make sure you have a proper sleep at night. Hense why fibro people tend to have a very low dose of antidepressants at night.
wishing you a good day.
Tes and Linda wishing you both a good day too.
Lizzy