I hope it works for you Pam, good sleep is so important.  I myself don't get more than 5 hours of sleep a night, it doesn't matter what time I went to bed. My mind is always racing.

I have found that if I read before I go to bed my sleep seems deeper, but the minute I open my eyes, my mind and thoughts get me moving again.  I wouldn't call it hyper activity but I would think it's close. I've always been very high strung.

Shauna

BTW, where in Maine? I will be in South Portland for the whole month of June, Sugar Daddy (hubby) has a job up there and I get a New England Summer Vacay.

As you've probably already learned that different meds work different on each person. From what I've read Lyrica is the worst for making you hungry and weight gain. I used it for awhile but started gaining, no thanks! Now I'm on Cymbalta and I don't seem to have that problem with it. However the only real pain relief for me comes from narcotics, I take morphine 3x a day and oxycodone every 6 hrs.
Not real sure how the RNYers do with pain meds but from what I read they have quite  bit of trouble with all meds. I would prefer getting the VSG if it's available to you because they still absorb normally. Yep losing the weight may help you feel better in general but it won't help the fibro pain, I think everyone here would agree with that. Hopefully some of the RNY folks will chime in and can tell you more about how the meds work for them.

Welcome Christian, men can indeed have fibro, it tends to be more in women but men also can have it. My best description and one I often hear as a description is that it's like the worst flu you ever had except it never goes away. It is a misfiring or over activity of the nerves. We often just feel like all our nerves and muscles are on overdrive, sensitive to everything. That may be why some of your ADD drugs help it because it maybe calms that part of the brain where the over active nerves are firing. I would stronly suggest you see a rheumatologist or a pain clinic to get an exact diagnosis. There are pressure points they can test to see if you respond. Unfortunately as far as treatment goes it is trial and error for each person, what works for one doesn't automatically work for another. You have to keep working with a doc to get the right combination. You are more than welcome here, we are a pretty nice bunch of people and definately understand your pain. Use the internet and find more info and there are some good books out there on fibro so educate yourself. You may have to educate your docs too because alot of them don't know much about it. Feel free to visit here anytime!

I had replied this on someone else's post, but I'm really worried about even asking this, so I'm reposting this as its own thread:

Hi You all,

I've never been here, and don't know much about fibro...I saw a comercial for some medicine and they described in general terms what it feels like (what it is) and it sounded scarily similar to what I've been experiencing.

I am scared to even consider the possibility but, what is Fibro?  How does it feel? What are the symptoms?

I feel tired all the time, like the nerves in my back, shoulders, legs, feet toes, etc are...burning, or like little needles all over the place, like too much electricity running through the "wires" of the nerves.

There are times when the pain on the back of my left shoulder blade, all the way up the neck to the base of the skull,  is so tight that, I just have to lie down and do nothing for hours.

3 months ago or so, I was diagnosed with ADD and Anxiety and began to take alprazolam 0.25mg (up to 3 times a day if needed - and this seems to help with the physical burning feelings...which triggers the anxiety..so first I feel the physical and then I get very stressed and anxious, so I take the alprazolam, and that seems to help with both physical and mental...for about 30 minutes.).

I was also given a prescription for something very similar to Adderall (its called Dextrostat ) and that seemed to help initially with the ADD (and Depression that I've had for at least 5 years.)

But now I worry that these physical sensations might be either

A) triggered by the Adderall/ or Alprazolam  OR
B) made worse by it.

Please don't scare me anymore by telling me what you have "heard" about these medicines that I'm taking with A LOT of care and almost unwillingly because the alternative its a different kind of hell of confusion, forgetfullness, frustration and worry. 

If you've taken them and noticed a cause-effect relationship to Fibro, please tell me...other than that I really don't need anything else to feel bad/ worry about (like the original poster, I too have been shamed for needing this medications that, whatever else they do, they did help me to function (mentally and emotionally) but now it is the physical pain that is ofcourse worrying me.  Tylenol does NOT seem to help at all.

I just want to feel normal (not depressed, anxious, tired, confused, and especially NOT in physical pain)  because this is all becoming like a nervous vicious circle that I dont' know, if one thing is related to another (directly) or not...forgive me if I sound frustrated.

I am scared, sad and feeling lonely, confused AND in physical pain. 

btw, prior to WLS back in 2002, I did NOT have any addictions (even the obesity had more to do with a back injury and the inability to do mucy), anxiety or painful/burning feelings of any kind.

help!

All of us here on the board are here for each other; so don't think of it as whining.
I know for me it is good that people here really now what were going thru and that when we say we are in pain we are in pain.
My daughter has migrane headaches with her fibro and she has them everyday.

keep us posted how your doing...
Pam