How does one find a doctor that will listen?: My chronic pain specialist deals with a lot of patients with FMS

» Jausten - My chronic pain specialist deals with a lot of patients with FMS

My chronic pain specialist deals with a lot of patients with FMS and CFIDS, plus my GP also has a lot of patients with the same conditions. Frankly, finding a FMS specialist is like finding my sanity sometimes, but a chronic pain specialist is probably better than most rheumatologists..at least in B.C., Canada.

One of the things that is so frustrating is finding the right drugs that help us on an individual basis. I've given up with my Soma except for really sleepless nights, but my legs and feet have been driving me crazy so I'm taking a medication that is used for people with Parkinson's Disease. I'd post the name, but I had about 4 hours of sleep and it is 6:30am and my brain is slowly going into la la land, and that isn't Los Angeles...

When we have other conditions besides Fibromyalgia, NSAIDS do help for the other conditions, but the authorities on FMS do say that they don't help for FMS, but who knows? Maybe they do help, but they do havoc on the stomach.

Another thing I find frustrating is that some of the medications that are available in the states aren't available in Canada. I don't know about other countries, but we can't get Ambien, Ultram and a few other drugs that seem to help. A patch for controlling pain is probably morphine or dilaudid..at least in Canada, we do have that..*g....

I'm going back to bed. Fried my brain trying to do email, and my feet are killing me...

Cynthia

Jausten

Suite 101 Contributing Editor: Fibromyalgia

-- posted by Jausten