Fibromyalgia

Careful_with_that_Axe

I can't really take in all the previous posts, so I'll read them properly tomorrow.

Ok - embarrassing question. and if you all say it's just me I may have to get the forum Uzi out and turn it on you all!

Ya know how sometimes your back hurts and your dominant arm, shoulder and hand ache? Well it causes me trouble turning round when I'm sitting. Can you see where this is going??
I also have IBS, so have a tendency to "go" far more frequently than normal and have trouble turning round to "tidy up" properly coz it hurts!
My GP has just laughed when I've mentioned this.
Am I really alone in this? I know I'm abnormal in lots of ways :rolleyes: . Is this just me?
Should I leave now
Jo
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Careful_with_that_Axe

Yes, I've used wet wipes etc and am quite "clean" thank you! I'm just asking if anyone else if anyone else has this which is a pain in the @rse

No sniggering at the back please. I can see you BZ and s/e.:rolleyes:

yellowrock

Sue p

Did you do your distance healing at about 6.45? My headache has suddenly gone! Well done if you did - it worked a treat

thanks
Yellowrock:j

somebody_else

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

I can't really take in all the previous posts, so I'll read them properly tomorrow.

Ok - embarrassing question. and if you all say it's just me I may have to get the forum Uzi out and turn it on you all!

Ya know how sometimes your back hurts and your dominant arm, shoulder and hand ache? Well it causes me trouble turning round when I'm sitting. Can you see where this is going??
I also have IBS, so have a tendency to "go" far more frequently than normal and have trouble turning round to "tidy up" properly coz it hurts!
My GP has just laughed when I've mentioned this.
Am I really alone in this? I know I'm abnormal in lots of ways :rolleyes: . Is this just me?
Should I leave now
Jo
x

Not just you, but the same problem with a different cause for me. Sometimes my hands get so painful I can't even hold a piece of tissue paper. So that makes wiping myself afterwards incredibly difficult and painful.

Fortunately(?), it tends to be short-lived so it's not as though it goes on for long enough to be more than a minor problem.

Don't think your GP was very helpful in laughing about this - not only is there the 'embarrassment' issue (even if no-one else notices, you are only too aware of it), there's potential infection/hygiene issues. I wonder if it might be worth having a word with a practice nurse? You can't be the only one who suffers like this - how do those who have been partially paralysed by a stroke manage?

bigzippy

Unity wrote: »

Thanks for the warning, so far I haven't had any problems with Prozac and I've been on it for a few years, although I do wonder sometimes if it is working :rolleyes: - but I suppose it is better the devil you know .

I think there's always an element of that with medication - at least if you've found something that does some good and you're not struggling with the side effects - sort of thing...

unity wrote:

Funny isn't it - it's one of the few upsides to winter for me - having the house smell like Christmas :xmastree:.

Urgh, clove oil is just a reminder of teeth and dentists to me, not Christmas!
Besides, I think I'm gonna have a Christmas free year this year... OH is working all over Christmas and New Year _pale_

Unity wrote:

I guess it's because I am desperate, not brave , I would just love to go to bed just once without the fear of monsters, confusion, anxiety and all the other little emotional nuances that I can't even begin to categorise but which haunt me for most of the following day. I don't mind coping with pain, one can just steel oneself against it to a certain extent - but it's the feelings of not having any control over what happens to me when I'm asleep that scares the bejeezus out of me .

I can understand that. Completely.
Do you find that when you're more stressed out, or there's more things on your mind, that they're worse?

somebody_else

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

No sniggering at the back please. I can see you BZ and s/e.:rolleyes:

Who, us?! No, no, no, no. It's just this tickly cough that I can't shift.

Honest.:whistle:

somebody_else

bigzippy wrote: »

I can understand that. Completely.
Do you find that when you're more stressed out, or there's more things on your mind, that they're worse?

I can't speak for Unity, but I have eventually worked out that my sleep pattern breaking down and the really vivid/scary dreams tend to be more persistent the more unwell I am.

It must be 5 or 6 years since I last slept all the way through the night, but when I start again, it'll be a positive indicator that I'm going into remission again.

bigzippy

raeh wrote: »

ooooooohhh noooooooo i wrote a long reply and multi quoted loads and its all craaaaaashed im going to have to start again now!!

I HATE that :mad:
You have my complete sympathies

bigzippy

somebody_else wrote: »

Who, us?! No, no, no, no. It's just this tickly cough that I can't shift.

Honest.:whistle:

:rotfl: Hahahahahaha - I think we've got ourselves somewhat of a reputation now s/e! Funny that... :rolleyes:

Unity

bigzippy wrote: »

I can understand that. Completely.
Do you find that when you're more stressed out, or there's more things on your mind, that they're worse?

To be honest I haven't had a good night's sleep since before the brick attack at age 12, so like everyone I have had stressful times and settled times - but the dreams are a constant. In the sleep lab, they found I started dreaming within seconds of falling asleep and that was at 9.30 a.m. in a room next to the cardiac unit with doors banging every few minutes :rotfl:.