Saturday, November 12, 2011
oh and
To keep things a little on the happy side, I will be creating a page for Hunter and Sydnie. I will post photos and little updates about them as much as possible.
latest and greates or not
I have been in a huge funk lately and not sure which end is up. I was diagnosed with FMS and have been coming to terms with that. There is much still unknown about Fibromyalgia. BUT there is information that says it is brought on by major injury or illness. Which I have had. It is also know that many people with Fibro have had it for years, it just takes time to announce itself. A high percentage of people with FMS have grown up with major allergies, which I have had. I have had issues with fatigue, bruising easily and just crazy random pain. A lot of the pain I had I just wrote it off as being normal. I had no idea until recently that not every one feels the pains that I have felt. Just as simply as having the backs of my legs hurt from sitting in a chair or having a part of my body hurt because someone has rubbed against me.
I am taking meds after meds and not a one of them totally takes the pain away. I am taking tramadol 3 times a day. I am almost to the max which is 8 pills a day. After I reach that I am not sure where we will be going. Since I am still taking my tamoxifen for the breast cancer I am limited on what I can take.
Along with the FMS I also have a disk that is deteriorating(L5-S1). This causes me much pain, especially in the morning and when the pain from the disk flares up my FMS flares up. I feel like all I can do is sit and not move so nothing hurts but then I sit to long and I hurt. I try and do yoga and it helps sometimes but is hit and miss.
Change in temperature causes me many problems. It hurts my joints, my muscles my back my knee(which I have arthritis in) and then causes anxiety because it is so frustrating. The heat makes me nauseated, so when the furnance kicks on I have to be careful where I am at in the room in comparison to where the vents are.
In order to keep anything clean in my house I have to do it in 15 minute increments. I can do more than that but if I do then my back spasms and after awhile I am just exhausted and every part of my body hurts from the ends of my hair to the tips of my toenails.
I have gone to a physical therapist(which costs 30 bucks for each visit) who has helped me with some life style changes and stretches that I can do at home for the disk. I also have had massages(only after taking a lortab or two) that help but again they cost money. I have tried a chiropractor but for the FMS massage helps better. I also have a inversion table that helps my back but doesn't help so much with the FMS, I have to use it when the FMS is not bad or else is causes more pain in my legs.
hmmm so what to do???
Sleep is another story, with FMS it is difficult to sleep and then added with the disk issue I have found that 5 hours is about the most I can sleep/lay down at a time. Any longer than that I am aching so bad and so stiff that it takes over an hour to work all the tightness out.
I feel like all I am doing is whining but I just really need to get this out of my mind and this seemed the best place. I am sure as more things pop into my mind I will be making more posts.
I feel like I am completely whining but I really just need to get this all out.
I am taking meds after meds and not a one of them totally takes the pain away. I am taking tramadol 3 times a day. I am almost to the max which is 8 pills a day. After I reach that I am not sure where we will be going. Since I am still taking my tamoxifen for the breast cancer I am limited on what I can take.
Along with the FMS I also have a disk that is deteriorating(L5-S1). This causes me much pain, especially in the morning and when the pain from the disk flares up my FMS flares up. I feel like all I can do is sit and not move so nothing hurts but then I sit to long and I hurt. I try and do yoga and it helps sometimes but is hit and miss.
Change in temperature causes me many problems. It hurts my joints, my muscles my back my knee(which I have arthritis in) and then causes anxiety because it is so frustrating. The heat makes me nauseated, so when the furnance kicks on I have to be careful where I am at in the room in comparison to where the vents are.
In order to keep anything clean in my house I have to do it in 15 minute increments. I can do more than that but if I do then my back spasms and after awhile I am just exhausted and every part of my body hurts from the ends of my hair to the tips of my toenails.
I have gone to a physical therapist(which costs 30 bucks for each visit) who has helped me with some life style changes and stretches that I can do at home for the disk. I also have had massages(only after taking a lortab or two) that help but again they cost money. I have tried a chiropractor but for the FMS massage helps better. I also have a inversion table that helps my back but doesn't help so much with the FMS, I have to use it when the FMS is not bad or else is causes more pain in my legs.
hmmm so what to do???
Sleep is another story, with FMS it is difficult to sleep and then added with the disk issue I have found that 5 hours is about the most I can sleep/lay down at a time. Any longer than that I am aching so bad and so stiff that it takes over an hour to work all the tightness out.
I feel like all I am doing is whining but I just really need to get this out of my mind and this seemed the best place. I am sure as more things pop into my mind I will be making more posts.
I feel like I am completely whining but I really just need to get this all out.
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