got a diagnosis

I went to the Rheumatologist today to tell him that I thought I had Fibromyalgia. The funny thing, is that he said that's what he was going to diagnose me with anyway. The prednisone he prescribed for me last time was sort of a test. If my current pain was arthritis related - the prednisone should have helped, but it didn't. And they did blood work last time I was there. He said that my blood looked good - there were no signs of my arthritis flaring up. He said that it is not uncommon for arthritis patients to get Fibromyalgia - and his nurse conducts little training/education courses on it that he thinks would be good for me to attend. My first one is next Tuesday. I THINK there are 3 classes but I can't remember. That reminds me though, having a foggy brain/memory is a symptom of the Fibro. They call it the Fibro Fog. No wonder I have such an awful memory! Anyway, last week my dr. put me on Paxil for my depression/anxiety and Dr. Bronson says that it sometimes can help with the Fibro too. It can take 4 weeks to start working though. So, he isn't going to prescribe anything for me yet. He wants me to wait and come back in 2 months - and then if he needs to he will maybe prescribe some Lyrica or something like that. I forgot to talk to him today about having troubles sleeping. I was hoping he could prescribe something for that. When I take Tylenol PM, it takes an hour to start working and then it makes me feel dizzy. It works though, but it seems like it takes a long time to get out of my system. Anyway, today has actually been a big relief. Not that it's a good thing to find out that I have another chronic condition - but atleast I have some answers to some things that have been going on with me for years now. For example, I KNEW I shouldn't be feeling this tired all the time. And it's more than tired. it's exhaustion. While I was working at Vatterott, I would fall asleep at work. I had a specialist tell me that I was borderline Narcoleptic. But I didn't think that was right. I might not ever stop being so tired - but atleast I know why I am tired and I'm not just lazy. We think that I've had this for years - but the dr. said that he thinks my stress lately just put it over the edge and made it flare up. If anyone is interested click HERE for a good site about Fibromyalgia.

Poor Dakota is having a tough time with going pee. Last night, he peed before bed and he had 2 streams coming out - 1 at the top and 1 at the bottom. The bottom stream was peeing on his legs. Turns out, the tip of his pee pee had stuck shut. So, I had to pry it apart. I felt so bad for him. It bled a little. Then, this morning, it was stuck shut again (and everytime he has peed todayI had to open it back up). I think the medicine is just getting wiped off in his underwear. And his testicles are bruised today. I hope that is normal. He is refusing to pee in the toilet - he only wants to pee in the bathtub water - it doesn't hurt at all when he pees in there. I tried to get him to go in the potty tonight but there was a little meltdown involved. I even tried bribing him with chocolate icecream with no luck. I hope this doesn't go on for too many days...