Sounds almost crazy saying that and to be honest I’m not really sure how to explain it. I don’t want this to sound like I’m complaining for what could be perceived as mild symptoms. I want to use this post mostly to laugh at my ignorance and maybe as a warning to others. For some context I do have moderate ADHD and I’ve definitely been over working myself these past few years. I have been having my regular fibromyalgia symptoms throughout this time but decided to ignore it. Telling myself I had to get through the day and I could take some pain killers later. Now I guess I’ve been doing this so much that I “forgot” all about my fibromyalgia. I ignored it and just pushed through, to the point that I’ve been able to not notice my lingering chronic pain as much. Sounds great right, I somehow managed to mind over matter this. Well the inevitable happened. For the past months I’ve been having the worst symptoms I’ve ever experienced. My chronic pain reached a point that my bad day pain killers felt like I took a Tylenol instead, my fatigue has me feeling like instead of sleeping my body decided to participate in some sort of triathlon, and the muscle spasms and my pain sensitivity have reached a whole new high. I was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on. It wasn’t until I started venting about my back pain to a co-worker who asked why I had such high dosage pain killers that I remembered all about my fibromyalgia, and realized I’ve been ignoring it for a little over a year. So yeah, all that to say don’t ignore your symptoms as they will come back with a vengeance.
Took forever for me to get a diagnosis for my chronic pain, bunch of doctors thought I was either depressed or was seeking pain medication. Once you get the diagnosis though it gets somewhat easier. For me the tramadol is fine it keeps my more painful flare ups at bay and the lingering pain doesn’t leave me stiff if I’m staying in the same position. What I do keep on me all the time though is a snack. Sometimes I feel like I won’t need the meds so I’ll go about my day without them and might take them later in the day. At that point I need to eat something before the tramadol. One time I didn’t care about it because of my pain and ended up throwing up maybe 15-20 minutes later.
My pain management doc wanted to try one last thing with tramadol before going stronger (that’ll be July 10) so she did 100mg extended release and 200mg ir. The first few days at the same exact time at like 5-6pm I would get so dizzy and sick. When I first started tramadol with just ir I got so nauseas. Luckily now it’s like my body is used to it so I can mostly take it with an empty stomach. I bought ginger root pills and that works tremendously with opiate nausea and dizzyness. Would highly recommend. I take one in the morning and it usually gets me through the day. If not I’ll take another