Fibromyalgia & HepC….

AGAIN….I have been MIA…..when the fatigue is so overwhelming that I cannot blog, or post, then I know this body I inhabit is really fighting with me.  These bodies are so absolutely amazing, even when they don’t want to cooperate.   And yes, I do know ….IT COULD BE WORSE.~

Those are fighting words some days.

Back to the title of this post…..Fibromyalgia is often found in those of us that have and deal with Chronic HCV.  Although I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 1990 and the non-a/non-b virus wasn’t named HCV until 1991.   Interesting.

http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/9/981

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/157/21/2497

http://www.janis7hepc.com/Symptoms.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12946286&dopt=AbstractPlus

http://hcvadvocate.org/news/newsLetter/2006/advocate0706.html

I always like to give links to any & all info.  Some of the abstracts listed here are older, yet they are still used.

Is there a link between the virus and this tissue disorder?

http://www.fmnetnews.com/

http://www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer

http://www.rheumatology.org/public/factsheets/fibromya_new.asp

I wrote a poem several years ago….Lizzie is a pregnant with twins elephant.

That is how I describe living with Fibromyalgia…it is like living under the belly of Lizzie.   Not a great way to get through a day, then add more fatigue because of the HCV and Bone issues and……

Lyrica is a drug that has now been given to me.  I have been on it 10 days.  It has helped the Neuropathy in my feet.  Today I have increased energy level.  That is a plus.

http://www.lyrica.com/

Here’s hoping….I have read of others that have actually been helped by this drug…I even have a friend who is being treated and it is helping her.  YEAAAAAAA!

Well for this afternoon I am encouraged and I hope you are too.  May kindness be in your life.