#AloneTogether
#AloneTogether I've had a lot of time to think recently. Alone. But I'm hoping I can share. Insomnia combined with unnatural sleep inertia is a particularly bad combination - latest side effects of medication trials. I'm on my second dosage change on the third prescription in a series of attempts to find medicine that helps. Even being medicinally resistant (which isn't helping find a solution) doesn't seem to be helping with withdrawals when necessary change-ups are needed. After a period of about eight months which included constant visits to various specialists - oncologist, rheumatologist, gastroenterologist, and suspected diagnosis - cancer, not cancer, autoimmune, not autoimmune, sclerosing mesenteritis, I can't even say that last one correctly twice in a row... the diagnosis is Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a relatively common condition affecting about 2% of the adult population in the US (4 million US adults - CDC1). It's just really...