How are you doing today? Depression and anxiety are very much a part of fibromyalgia too. Every time I visit my rheumatologist I have to complete a HAD test (Hospital Anxiety and Depression test) Half the questions are related to anxiety and the other half to depression. You rate the questions to how you feel over the last fortnight. I've been scoring high on the depression lately and moderately on the anxiety. My GP gets a report including the score, but never makes any comments when I see her.
I think being open to those you trust about the depression helps. There will always be people who don't understand. Same goes about the pain. A nurse after the original TKR when I was in severe pain just told me to toughen up. Yet another nurse said one night do you normally live with pain. When I said yes she did something about it and set up an IV line to give me extra painkillers. In the morning another nurse said she shouldn't have done that, and refused to give me any more IV pain relief. I hope the night nurse didn't get told off!
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