thank you! have so enjoyed our chats in groups and here. looking forward to lots of chatty visiting in our future.

interesting. i have used protien shakes and protien bars as my main protien nutrient source all my adult life. i am not vegetarian, but i don't eat much, especially meat. so, i was quite surprised to see soy turn up as one of the foods i had developed an allergy to. one of my doctors doing the tests, told me that whey protien was a better nutrient source than soy. so i switched. it has always been difficult to find soy based protien bars, i take a couple in my backpack w water jug when i am working outside and it is not convenient to go all the way back to the house just for lunch. but the last couple of years, the GNC store here has gone over to almost nothing but whey protien bars. yeeaayy!! :)) i have protien shake for breakfast & lunch. love fresh fruit and veggies and munch a lot. during the week i don't cook dinner...time, his hours, my work around the place. ...but weekends i cook and no protein shakes.

i also was diagnosed with a close cousin of your fibromyalgia a few years ago while they were seeing if there was something that could be done for the constant pain other than pain pills. all in all after two years of testing for everything from allergies to lupis and rheumatoid arthritis - both of those were negative thankfully, tho one doc insisted that with all my symptoms we were getting "false negatives" on the tests lollol... but...like i said after thousands of dollars of mostly uncovered by insurance tests, xrays, mri etc etc ..i was diagnosed with CFIDS along with degenerative spinal disease, cervical ankylosing spondylosis, oteoarthritis, amd early osteoporrosis in my upper legs! plus of course, the usual degenerative arthritis all over my body giving me lumpy hands and toes etc :)). tje osteoporrosis in my upper legs really blew them away..i have always been a bit strange, and then i found out even my bones are strange! lollol but like you and your fibromyalgia...we endure...we find a way. take care...missed our conversations too.

lurking lollol was my primary form of visits until last spring. in may my son decided that my bd goft this year should be an ipad. 2reasons...it is painful to sit for too long and i am an information junkie of the first magnitude :)). he worried about me and the pc amd the net reading, also...since i get to reading following links wandering willy-nilly around the web from one fascination to the next i never remembered to hook up the cam that he and his dad got me a few years before...for exmas, so that i could visit w son and grdaughters on pc. so...w the ipad we do a thing called "facetime" he had showed it to me before .."yeah..ok..yawn.." but! now rhat i have my ipad and he goes out w his and follows the girls and their antics in their yard yelling "watch this gramma ham!" i am a solid convert to the ipad and facetime and portability and standing at the counter eating lunch/breakfast whatever and ...reading and chatting w chat friends and posting sometimes inanne comments on mqp or the board or ...or ...or lollol

hi...had not come across your posts before. now our paths have crossed! and i am glad for it. nice to "meet" you. hope you post some pics. the site has grown enormously since i joined in nov a year ago. i posted some initial pics..and nothing since. need to mend my ways...it is so time consuming to get on pc and do the thing. on quilting board they have it so i can upload fr ipad etc. .....hmmm maybe i should send a note to the powers that be that there be a similar facility here at mqp?

anyway..hello.