Quit Smoking & Fibro Flared?

Hi mac87

I gave up smoking just over 2 years ago after smoking for 30 years. The way I did it was to use a cape pen which still has nicotine in it. I started of with 24mg of nicotine and I've now dropped it to between 8 and 12mg of nicotine. I have been told by a friend of mine who also has fibromyalgia that a certain amount of nicotine helps reduce the flare up and also helps with it generally. I have found myself that if I had to keep my nicotine level in my vape somewhere I have it at the moment.

First of all Mac, Congratulations! What a wonderful thing you have done for your health! That is a major step and it takes a great deal of determination. Please never return to this disgusting habit that sucks the life out of you and the oxygen right out of your blood! Your body will readjust with time and rid your system of all the poison that you have sucked into it. Your symtoms sound mainly due to inflammation. We have more inflammation at certain times and this causes pain and extreme sensitivity. This too shall pass my dear. Are you taking Curcummin supplements to reduce inflammation? It is natural. This supplement is good for everything concerning Fibromyalgia. Again good on you for quitting smoking! A real accomplishment that shows some real self love. Maggie xx

I took Tramadol for a few years with Lamaline, then I was put on morphine, but nothing really helped. The pain clinic said THE ONLY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT is Oxycontin, and it is true it really does reduce the pain significantly, and I don't have any nasty side-effects, nor feelings of being drugged or groggy. You could ask about it. You need to start at a very low dose and increase it gradually. It took me 1 month to get to 30 grammes morning and night. I need to increase it a bit more now because I still have pain, but before, it was impossible to walk, and I coudn't raise my foot enough to mount even one step. Getting in and out of the car is very difficult and painfull, but before I had this treatment I could not leave the bedroom most days, and screamed with pain several times a day. (Which is very embarrassing if someone else is in the house! No-one who does not have this illness can understand the intensity and variety of pain, or how it comes on so suddenly and  fiercely and in so many different places) Perhaps your doctor will think it is worth trying Oxycontin, if like me, you have already tried nearly everything else with limited success. My GP didn't have the right to prescribe it the first time because it is very powerful, but after a specialist has written the first prescription the GPS can continue to renew it. 

Congrats on quiting smoking! I have quit and gone back several times. Your body is just going through the flu like withdrawal symptoms. It's amplified the fibro. Try to hang in there! I'm trying to quit again. We can do this!

I started having minor pain in my chest and thought it was maybe lung cancer and quit cold turkey. After that I started to suffer one of the most horrible pains. Most is in my upper stomach like my liver area and rib cage. My skin hurts and I am also tempature sensitive, my husband hurts me when he hugs or pats my back to comfort me. I am stiff most of the time and more so in the mornings and sometimes even the bottoms of my feet hurt to walk like I am walking on rocks. This all started after I quit smoking and I quit a year and a half ago. I feel better that I quit but this pain is horrible, I can't tell if something more is going on and I think my doctor and local er think I am crazy.