u/VGMistress

36F, 147lbs 4'11". When I stopped bleeding last week on Thursday (8/13), I started feeling this ache in my lower pelvis, like about where the pubic symphysis is (bladder). I never had this feeling before, and I've had plenty of feelings down there. I have interstitial cystitis, and my ovulation can sometimes be achy, but this is different. It's not making me pee more frequently, it just hurts, and the pain comes in waves. I've also had bad diarrhea these past couple of days. I'm currently on day 2 of taking AZO and I took an anti-diarrheal medicine this morning, but the ache is still there. I've noticed that the ache is way more prevalent in the morning, and at night I don't feel anything. Here's my list of meds/supplements:

Lexapro 20mg

Fish Oil

Multivitamin

Turmeric/Curcumin

Magnesium

B12

Edit: Forgot to mention that I've never been pregnant, never will be pregnant, and am asexual. I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs

Every year, the birds that live in the bag attached to the telephone pole in my front yard throw their barely feathered babies out of the nest. Why they do it? I don't know, but I'm tired of the trauma. The rest of the year, they poop on my car. I want them gone, and I want the bag sewn up so they can't nest there, anymore.

In just the past two days, they've thrown four babies out of the nest, one still in the egg. I was only able to rescue one of them, driving it to an animal refuge hospital, but two hours later, another one is flailing around under the pole. I don't know what kind of birds they are. They have these brown heads and grey bodies, I think? It doesn't matter. It's horrid to see dead or dying baby birds all the time.

Finally, after five years, a doctor listened to me and prescribed morphine. She said to cut the pills in half, take two halves during the day and see how you feel, then you can move up to two whole pills a day. I started two weeks ago, but was also taking Keppra that first week. Taking morphine and Keppra together caused me to have migraines for days, the last day I took Keppra was the worst migraine I ever had.

The doc told me to stop taking Keppra. I did, and took a few days off of the morphine before starting it up again. I'm still taking half a pill twice a day, but there have been side effects. I've been sleepy as hell, and two nights ago I kept waking up gasping like I was having night terrors or something. Today, I have another headache. I skipped the pill tonight. I haven't even really felt better in my body, tbh, and being tired doesn't help. I should be feeling good. When is this garbage supposed to end? When will the pill work? When will the side effects go away? I tried looking it up on Google, but Google keeps bringing up hotlines about opioid addiction and where to go if I'm an addict. I'm not an addict. I have chronic pain and need medicine, medicine that's supposed to work.

PS: This doctor told me that I don't have fibromyalgia, and that all markers point to lupus. That doesn't make any sense, because other than pain, I have no other symptoms. I don't even have joint pain; the pain is in my muscles. She was nice and did listen to me, though, better than any other doctor.

I went to pain management for the chronic pain I've been experiencing for five years. She did some blood tests and told me I have SLE and gave me a packet to read. I googled SLE, and I don't have any of the symptoms. I don't have a face rash, joint pain, chest pain, weight loss, or kidney disease. I do have fatigue, and I feel swollen, but I don't look swollen. My pain is not in joints, it's in muscles. I have acne, but that's not a rash. So... I'm confused. I'm seeing a rheumatologist in two months, but every time I've seen a rheumatologist, they've been horrible.

I went to pain management for the chronic pain I've been experiencing for five years. She did some blood tests and told me I have SLE and gave me a packet to read. I googled SLE, and I don't have any of the symptoms. I don't have a face rash, joint pain, chest pain, weight loss, or kidney disease. I do have fatigue, and I feel swollen, but I don't look swollen. My pain is not in joints, it's in muscles. I have acne, but that's not a rash. So... I'm confused. I'm seeing a rheumatologist in two months, but every time I've seen a rheumatologist, they've been horrible.

I try to improve myself. I try to lose weight, I try to get rid of acne, I try to reduce my pain levels, I try to get a job. I even tried to follow my dream of being a voice actor. But it was all too lofty. I try to go to the doctor to help me with any of my conditions, and they just turn their heads. My latest failure is trying to ask the weight loss doctor to prescribe me Zepbound, but it isn't covered by insurance. I wrote to my insurance, asking them if they would cover it, and they said yes, with a prior-authorization. They lied to me. My voice coach lied to me, too, telling me that I could work from home for the rest of my life. I believed him, trying to get actual acting jobs instead of reading bad audiobooks and ads, and when I asked him, he said, 'oh no, you have to move to LA to get those kind of jobs'. I've been lied to my whole life, really. By adults who say that if you follow your dreams and work hard, you can achieve anything, or if you take care of yourself you'll never get sick. I worked hard in school. I worked hard in work. I worked hard to be healthy. Now, I have no job and fibromyalgia. Now, I have to take an antidepressant that packs pounds on my body for the rest of my life. Now, my insurance will leave me behind if I don't slave away my life at least 80 hours a month. Now, I can't get any life-saving medications because my insurance won't cover them, or because doctors are not allowed to prescribe them. I don't know how much more failure I can take.

I wish I'd known that before I drove 15 miles for a doctor to tell me that. My PCP didn't know, either, that's why he sent me to a weight loss doctor. Now, not only will I continue to gain weight thanks to my antidepressant that I cannot wean off of ever, but I will still be untreated for my fibromyalgia. I hate this insurance, I hate this industry, I hate this country.

Dog/Mini Schnauzer/9yo/16lbs/Male Not neutered/New Jersey

We got him shots at the vet on Monday, June 22. On Thursday, he threw up and diarrhea'd all over the place, and today (Friday), he's still pooping more than usual, plus a little diarrhea just now. He was also bit by a tick two weeks ago, but the vet tested his blood with the 4DX and found nothing wrong.

List of shots: Lyme, DHLPP

Are the shots causing him to react like this? If so, why did it take so long for him to react to it?

I was hoping that the septoplasty would fix my headaches, chronic pain, etc, but it's not. I'm three months out and last week, I started having this headache and nose pain like I just got out of surgery. Is it allergies? Is it my fibromyalgia? I still only breathe through one nostril at a time, too. I thought the drainage in my nose was better, but it feels like it's back to the way it was pre-op. This happens to me all the time. I trust doctors to help me, and they just make things worse. Am I going to have to spray saline rinse in my nose for the rest of my life?

This med has caused me to be almost obese. I've been trying to lose the weight for years, but the scale only goes up. I tried fasting, dieting, exercising (can't do much now because of untreated fibromyalgia) but every year, it's five pounds more. The carb and sugar cravings, fatigue and lack of energy do not help, either. I've tried getting off or changing to something different, but I can't. This is the only med that sort-of works for my depression and anxiety. But being very overweight is not helping my depression or fibro at all. I'm seeing my doctor soon, and I hope he can get me a script for Zepbound, and I hope it works against this stupid medication.

EDIT: Thank you for all the kind, not rude comments. This website can be such trash. I tried venting on r/intermittentfasting but they were all so mean.

EDIT: Spoke to soon. Thanks, Brian.

Every year for the past fifteen years, I've purchased a faulty inner tube. This year I got the worst one yet. Deflated instantly and I haven't even used it yet. It's so uncomfortable to float on because of the deflation. I used to keep inner tubes for many years when I was a kid, but now I need to get one every year.

I'm seeing my doctor in a few weeks, and I was hoping that he could prescribe me tirzepatide. I can't lose weight no matter what I do. I also would like to see if it helps my fibromyalgia.

So, just had another mental breakdown. My family and I were trying to open our pool, and I struggled immensely because of this stupid incurable illness. I used to be so strong, so fit, I could just get up and do anything I needed to do, but I can't anymore. I'm so weak and fragile, and I hate myself more every day because of it. I had this condition for five years, and I'm still in mourning. Every day I wake up and dread living. I can't do anything without pain, let alone open a fucking pool. My life is in ruins, and no doctor wants to help. My mom asked my cousin who works in pain management to help me, but he ghosted us. I usually hide my struggles from my parents, but I just started crying in front of them, which is always a mistake. My mother always says the wrong thing and my father says nothing at all, nor can either of them get it through their heads that I am in pain 24/7 and it never goes away.

I go to the hospital a lot, like twice a year, because sometimes my fibromyalgia gets to be too much. This hospital (really a glorified urgent care atp) should know my medical history and should know that I come in there for two things: a Toradol shot and a steroid pack. They made the waiting room smaller than it already was by adding a metal detector. They triage me, and then put me into a storage room with a chair, oxygen tanks, and portable IV stands, no TV, no lounge chair. I asked why I was put in this room, and they said they didn't know. The doc comes in, and I tell him I have fibromyalgia, the pain is a ten, I know what works, just give me a shot and a steroid pack and I'll be on my way.

He leaves, then a nurse comes in, takes my urine and says he has the shot and a steroid you can put in juice. I told him that's not what I asked for. He asks me if I'm okay and I said not really, because I've been put in a closet. He gives me the shot and leaves, and the doc said he's giving me stronger steroids than a pack to take home, and I said fine whatever. I asked him if he could call the pain management place in the same campus why they've been ghosting me for the past five months, and he said they can't because they're different companies. The nurse comes in with my scripts, plural, another one for naproxen that I didn't ask for because it doesn't work, and referrals to a neurosurgeon and an orthopedic surgeon. Did they not hear me say 'fibromyalgia'? I just don't understand why they make more work for themselves.

The mistreatment of chronic pain patients is an epidemic in English-speaking countries. Let's do something about it together.