Archive for March, 2008

Giving Cymbalta® a try…

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My doctor’s appoint­ment went well. He agreed with what our fam­ily friend sug­gested and seemed sur­prised I had not yet been advised to do so. I think he sug­gested a sim­i­lar treat­ment plan when I was in high school, but I was afraid of tak­ing (or, per­haps too imma­ture and proud […]


In the mean time…

Fam­ily friends came into town to spend Easter with Daniel and I and my par­ents. The hus­band, a med school stu­dent, men­tioned a doc­tor he knows who spe­cial­izes in women’s health and fibromyal­gia. He explained her treat­ment plan to me and sug­gested I ask my doc­tor about it. I was thrilled.
Ear­lier today […]


Fibromyalgia and Timothy Ferriss

After years with­out a severe flare, I had for­got­ten how bad things could get. Now, I remem­ber and I am ready for a change…
The first few years after I was diag­nosed with fibromyal­gia were rough. But after set­tling into a rou­tine and help­ing teach­ers and friends under­stand how to help me suc­ceed with […]


A bit of an introduction…

I recently grad­u­ated from col­lege and, I fear, am offi­cially out of excuses to act like a col­lege stu­dent. That, in no notice­able way, has altered my behav­ior, but I have noticed a fairly sig­nif­i­cant change (besides the size of my bank account).
Instead of dream­ing of what I want to be when I “grow […]