Fibromyalgia pain: Let's connect

Thank you for the reminder

Hot baths with Epsom salts and heating pads are my best remedies during flares, but this last one was so bad I could hardly hold still with this last one, extra rest/sleep helped a lot. Best of luck to you

Same!

I have found over the years that taking herbs like tumeric and tart cherry (and a rotating list of affordable herbs and vitamins) to cool the fires of inflammation has helped mightily. While I was treating other issues or concerns to get more mobile, the fibromyalgia has calmed as well.

@freshair, would you believe that my medical management physician (assigned by the insurance company) was a tad bit upset with me for my usage of different things such as turmeric, flaxseed oil capsules, etc. Even though my PCP encourages me! Each physician is trained differently, and those who arent fond of supplements claim they are a waste of good money and time. But I have found pain relief by using a variety of things. My "medicine pouch" as my Native American forebears would have called it. Minimalism, meditation, music, movies....Staying busy. Taking time to rest. I guess we all have to find what works best for us until there is a cure. I try to be optimistic with that. In 1990 when I was diagnosed at the Kirklin Clinic (Part of the UAB medical system in Birmingham, Alabama) it was even suggested that Fibromyalgia was just a "fad" condition of bored housewives. Even today there are specialists who withhold appropriate treatment because they stilk think that if we just move enough, just lose weight enough, we will be magically "healed."

Have a wonderful day and I hope it is as pain free as possible!

Mamacita

@ckeys , I absolutely adore hot baths with Epsom Salts! One of my favorite go tos. Naps or just putting my feet up at about the same time every day. Reading. Getting on here and conversing with all you lovely people. They say it takes a village. In our case, I think it takes a village's many different approaches as well. The tried and true. Who knows? The cure may be in our lifetime!

Mamacita

Parus, I bought an adult coloring book for myself a couple years ago, when I bought one for the Grandchild. His was simpler, but I have had a lot of fun with both. I love color and using it to express myself in different ways. I was a pretty good little artist as a child, but got away from it in the sixth grade when my teacher erased my work. I've told this story before, but I erased what she did and gave it back to her. She was incensed. I was sent out into the hallway at school where I was at the mercy of a roaming Principal. Ahh, good times. Love you!
Mamacita

@mwcates, welcome! I look forward to enjoying your art work! I have several young cousins who are wonderful artists, and a niece also who does beautiful work. Making art is an incredible gift that I admire greatly. I had hoped to take art lessons myself after I retired, but we seem to be too busy doing other things. Hopefully that won't always be the case. Just need to get my ducks in a row. Every now and then I buy supplies for the kid's classes at church, and my Grandchildren, in the hopes that we will create something of beauty together. Have a great day today, and thanks for your input here. Glad to have you!

Mamacita

Parus, do you enjoy going to the movie theaters? The oddest thing, I have discovered in years past,my pain disappears while I am watching an interesting movie on the big screen. TV watching, not so much. Although I could easily binge watch Disney movies and British T.V. I've gotten a lot of much needed housework completed, including the sad piles of clean but wrinkled laundry. Just wondered if anyone else experienced that effect. Pain returns almost instantly, however. Oh well. C'est la vie, I suppose. Until the cure.

Until next time,

Mamacita

Thank you, Colleen, for your gentle reminder. When we are in pain sometimes we have hurt unaided, unheard, for so long, that almost anything will trigger even more pain. Fibromyalgia is particularly heinous, because so many people don't believe us. Our own families don't believe us. Our own church members pray for our "healing" year after year, and even best friends simply give up on us. I " lost " a best friend because every time she wanted to do something I couldn't go. She eventually got tired of hearing me say I was in pain.

I haven't seen her since January of this year. This condition steals joy. It takes away the life you had. But if you are lucky, you find your own special tribe, and you go on from there.

I love your knowledge and your wisdom in everything you do for us here on Connect. I truly believe you understand this condition inside and out. Just thought I would share a little bit of what makes this particular FibroWarrior tick. I get cranky and sore, impatient and thoughtless from time to time. I forget important dates, appointments, and sometimes I am too sick to eat. The very act of taking necessary medication is too much.

Just ask my youngest daughter about the things I have done just this year, that disappointed her to the core. I let her down terribly at one point because I was in so much pain I could not think straight. It's called FibroFog. And I know you know that too.

I just felt led to share my thoughts with our wonderful community that we have here. If anyone out there is in pain, and needs to hear this, I am glad I was obedient to the voice of the Heavenlies. We are not alone. We all have each other. One day, a cure!

I appreciate you so much!

Mamacita