Fibromyalgia

Careful_with_that_Axe

raeh, I'll second the bruising. I have exactly the same thing with bruising when sleeping with my legs resting on each other. I even have a fetching bruise on my stomach in teh shape of the buckle of a belt I wore last week. Let's face it, if I had worn belt tight enough to give a bruise I would certainly have known about it. I've always put bruising down to the AI.
On the subject of depression, I think being in constant pain is bound to bring you down. I think very often pain and depression can become cyclical. The pain feeds the depression, which feeds the pain etc.
Have been on anti-depressants for a while and find they level out my moods. The down side of it is that I don't get to experience joy. However, I feel it's safer for me long-term to be on them. am only on small dose of Ami to help prevent muscle spasms which have decided to join in the pain party regularly held in my body.
am pleased the dodgy hug was enjoyed! Even more pleased you shared it with your wife - emotional support helps greatly doesn't it.
btw - I blame you lot for the fact I bought a table-top dishwasher today. Now I just have to get it out of the car and into the flat!
Hugs to all
J
x

somebody_else

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

btw - I blame you lot for the fact I bought a table-top dishwasher today. Now I just have to get it out of the car and into the flat!
Hugs to all
J
x

Oops! Guilty yer onner. Having said that, once you've finally got it set up, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it.

I originally paid to have mine installed, but the delivery chap took one look under my sink, told me I didn't have the right connector and refused to fit it.

So s/e trudled down to B&Q to get the double sided connector and a self fitting tap for the cold water inlet and did the job myself. It took me nearly all day to connect it up - a job that would have taken an able bodied person 20 minutes or so, so not £20 quids' worth of labour.

I can't have done a bad job in the end - 2 years' later and everything is still working and nothing leaks.

Careful_with_that_Axe

Yes, thank you se. I think.
I had wondered about just putting it over the tap in the sink, but it'll be worth doing properly. Just have to decide where to put it. I have a cupboard with the washing machine in and have wondered about putting it on top of w/m. Trouble is that cupboard is the only storage in the flat so would have to clear it out first! Glad to know it might be something I could attempt myself - I get such satisfaction out of being independent and doing odd jobs like this.

Can I raise a subject that I haven't spoken to anyone else about? Libido?
Mine is non-existent. Now I understand to a certain extent it's difficult to feel sexy when you're in pain, but I also wonder if the meds might have something to do with this.
Anyone prepared to add their twopenneth??!

raeh

ok im going to have to keep thinking here so i remember what i wanted to reply to

cwta well done on getting the dishwasher i decided not to have one as i thought bedning down to fill and empty it would be hard work on my back but maybe il have to do a rethink... dh will be stopping me coming on here what with me mentioning an adjustable bed earlier

meds... i would love to be able to take the gabapentin again or the amitrylilene [sp] but for me they make me so dizzy and out of it i cant drive so cant go to work, its a vicious circle. I need the car or im trapped and i also need to work at the moment as that stops me feeling so bad in a strange way, even though it exhausts me working, i seem to feel worse when im sat in the house and not getting out and doing things?? my gp says because im small i cant take much of a dose before it affects me

now libido ...... blimey, what libido lol!! im lucky i have an understanding dh [well im hoping i do!!] its not non existent but not what it should be at our age! im either asleep hours before him or the pains are so bad i cant turn myself over in bed never mind anything else!! i think the pain making you feel not sexy is a huge thing, its hard to feel it when you hobble about like an old lady and dh is scared to touch me sometimes as he knows hes going to hurt me!

somebody_else

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

Can I raise a subject that I haven't spoken to anyone else about? Libido?
Mine is non-existent. Now I understand to a certain extent it's difficult to feel sexy when you're in pain, but I also wonder if the meds might have something to do with this.
Anyone prepared to add their twopenneth??!

Probably a combination of both CwtA. My libido went through the floor when I was put on Prozac many years ago, and although I only took it for a few days (it also had other side-effects I wasn't prepared to put up with) it never really recovered.

Now, in my case there were other factors involved - at that time I had a somewhat abusive partner (now very ex), so that didn't help either.

I've been happily single since 1999, and to be honest I'm not interested in having an OH, so the total loss of libido isn't currently an issue for me. To be honest, I have enough trouble looking after myself without having another person in the house that I'd have to take into consideration all the time. I suspect that I'm not the ideal person to be 'discussing' this with, 'cos I don't have an OH, so it's not really an issue for me.

Back to the dishwasher - if you can get it properly fitted (and they are easy to do, technically, although a bit of muscle is required in places) then it's probably worth the effort in the long run, even if you suffer for it in the short term. Good luck.

I appear to have waffled somewhat. Oh well, press post.

sharon59

I am a fellow bruiser-only need to look at myself and get a bruise but never put it with the fibro before.Last october l feel down the stairs-had to have ambulance to hospital and drs very surprised it was not broken due to pain and dreadful bruising -wonder iif this was cos of the fibro then.
As for libido well l second the person who wrote that being in constant pain and creaking like a 90yr old really doesnt help in making anyone feel sexy.Also maybe we have so much pain that other brain signals get over come-just an uneducated guess on my part!

Or maybe the fibro fog has caused us to forget what to do!!!!!!

somebody_else

Isn't there an old 'joke' with regard to ME (at least, that's what I saw it linked to - it probably applies to many conditions) that goes something along the lines of "I can manage foreplay and intercourse these days - just not in the same week".

sharon59

somebody_else wrote: »

Isn't there an old 'joke' with regard to ME (at least, that's what I saw it linked to - it probably applies to many conditions) that goes something along the lines of "I can manage foreplay and intercourse these days - just not in the same week".

Think that sums it up nicely!!!!:rotfl:

Elmostreet

hello again everyone.
Did quite alot today. Went to church with new puppy,then saw two good friends inbetween.Also took a mad notion to move my bedroom furniture about which yielded good results but might not yield good results for my fibro tommorrow.!
Just get so frustrated sometimes. Just wwant to achieve as much as possible in my life but fibro gets in the way.
On the depression front i'm on Prozac for depression and I :Awas on beta-blockers for anxiety.

tatty

Hi everyone havent been on here for a couple of days feeling very sore and fragile, i to suffer from bruising and only said to husband last night wonder if its linked ,i have trouble sleeping (getting to sleep and not waking up in pain )and never feel like ive had a good nights sleep .libido !!! mine is nearly up there with the dinosaurs my youngest son is 14months and i forget how hard work they are this age fibro didnt kick in until my oldest son was then 2 1/2yrs,when i had my mri last week the nurse asked if there is any chance i could be pregnant and me and my husband both said NO !!!! very clearly .Get my mri results tuesday morning typical that i have to be there at 9.25 am ,sons first day back to school and my house will be choas football kits p.e kits, reading book ,homework etc must write a list of what he needs .take care x x