I have fibromyalgia for many years but lately I am very depressed and sad. I also am dealing with two elderly?

Question

Parents. My Mom broke her hip over two years ago and a few months ago she fractured her pelvis. All I want to do is cry what can I do?

Answer 1

You need to look into some elder care assistance for your parents and some counseling for yourself. Caring for elderly parents, particularly those with health problems, is a daunting task, especially when you have health problems of your own. It's normal to feel that you should be able to handle it because these are your parents and you love them, but there's much more to it than that. As people age, there are sometimes mental or emotional issues (such as dementia) which come into play and must be considered. As much as you may want to care for your parents yourself, you have to be able to recognize when things get beyond what you can handle. Are there other family members who can help out by offering part-time relief or short vacations for you? There are public, church and charitable organizations that have programs to help with various aspects of elder care. You need to look into some of these before you break down. If you go to see a counselor, you should be able to get some guidance there or from your doctor. Fibromyalgia can make life very difficult, particularly when you go through a flare-up. If you haven't taken any coping classes or chronic pain management classes, you might look into that, also. And if you're not on meds for this problem, there are some available to help you. Please talk to your doctor.
Best of luck.

Answer 2

I feel for you. Depression and fibromyalgia go hand in hand.

Ask you doctor for Cymbalta. It is an antidepressant that lessens the pain of fibromyalgia. The generic name is duloxetine. If you don't have insurance, you can order from here: http://www.inhousepharmacy.com/anti-depressants/generic_cymbalta.html
It is a safe online pharmacy. I have had fibromyalgia for decades and Cymbalta is the only thing that has really helped.

If you decide to take Cymbalta, start at a low dose like 30 mg/day. In about a month, go up to 60 mg/day. You can take it at night or morning. You might have some weird side effects at first but you will still be able to function. I lost my appetite, had nausea, was nervous, couldn't sleep well, etc.
All that went away in 3-4 weeks and everything got better. Good luck.
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Answer 3

It sounds like your mom has osteoperosis...check this with her doctor...Be sure you will not get it...
Crying is oke...get angry that is one step up to the emoitonal scale do EFT...a self help technique easy to apply.
Valerian and St Johns worth and Kava kava are natural anti depression, anti anxiety herbs.
5 HTP and Gaba are also good alternatives...just do not mix them with medications as this can have negative effects. Be aware of medications anyway. A pastor, who comes in the ED often, once asked me this question: Did you ever see somebody on medication and heal (he was speaking about anti depression/ anti anxiety and bipolar medications. This boggled my mind....I could not find a person....
Depression is a phase when it is when you see parts of yourself, the world you do not like. You can not accept these realizations. Medications keep you quiet and subdued. Do not forget that the next step is anger and needs to get out before the next step of anticipation, acceptation and goon with your live. Medication might be a bridge for a while but not for ever...
With anxiety something has happened in your past and if you start to go into the anxiety mood is because something triggered this awful memory. You can not or do not want to go to this experience it is too painful. So what do you do, going panic and nowadays it is called a panic attack.

To get to the origin of your depression or anxiety you can use tools. Tool like EFT (emotional freedom technique) and EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). What caused the anxiety...what is behind your anxiety? You can get there and be more what you really are. Enjoy every moment.

Answer 4

Go to your doctor and ask for something for your depression. It helps a lot. With your parents, I know it can be stressful and worrisome at times, especially with broken bones. Don't worry; they know you are trying your hardest. Just try not to get anxious about these things, or be sad about them. Try giving yourself a structure; i have OCD and had depression, and the structure really helps both. Good luck. I hope you'll get better, and that your mom will be okay.

Answer 5

Oh sweet baby, I did cure the fibromyalgia of a woman excellently and never repeated. You need to give me full details but however you can take Rhustox 200c in homeopathy to get relieved of pains and phytolacca 30c to let the fibrous tissues disappear. Please take Gentain the bach flower remedy for your depression which work wonderfully.

the process is like this.

1st day ...............two doses of bryonia 200c morning and eve

2nd day...............Hypericum 200c morning and evening

3rd day ---------- Rhus Tox 200c morning and evening


from 5th day onwards........take phytolacca 30 c every day for a fortnight and stop for a fortnight and repeat again for a fortnight .........till the fibrous ceases. Repeat the above treatment when you suffer from pain again.

In addition to that........you can take calcaria flour 12x in the morning and kaliphos 12x before sleep till the improvment

adding to that .........Gentain is a bachflower remedy that releive you from all your depression and give strength to copeup with your daily problems. purchase an ounce of gentain and agrimony bach flower remedies available in any of the homeostores available near you and mix one or 2 drops in a glass of water and drink every day morning.

you can browse on bach flower remedies in google.

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