I'm just wanting to know if anybody out there is battling the double whammy of having fibromyalgia and AS together. Truthfully, I know there are, and I'm just wondering how you fight them both at the same time.
I'm taking Enbrel, along with a cocktail of other stuff (NSAID, proton pump inhibitor, pain med, muscle relaxer), and other than one blessed week of relief a while back, I'm still in constant pain. My rheumy says its the fibro that's torturing me, and although my first reaction is to roll my proverbial eyes (from all the years that the AS was missed), I have to admit that there are times I can tell that it is indeed the muscles in my shoulders vs the joints.
So for the AS my rheumy says to exercise, then when I do she says to lay off because it's causing the fibro to flare. She tells me to keep active, then she says I'm overworked and need to reduce my stress.
Anybody got a secret recipe to stop this crazy cycle????
