I'm wondering if anyone else with fibro has experienced the following......

I work in a somewhat high stress situation almost 24/7. I'm a home provider for an individual with mental/emotional/physical disabilities. This individual can never be alone, he has supports 24/7 by me, his day provider and respite. I've also had some pretty stressful situations with my family as well for over the past few years.

That being said, may times my fibro acts up when really stressed out. I try hard to keep the stress to a minimum with a lot of self talk, breathing, meds and lots of laughter.

Right now I'm on a little mini holiday until late Wednesday afternoon. No family, no individual to care for, only me...just me Two days before I was to leave on my holiday the fibro kicked into very very high gear. I was exhausted, in much pain and I thought maybe the changing weather was playing into the pain and inability to move certain joints without almost crying.

So, here I am in my motel room and I want to cry. I can't believe I'm still in so much pain. I'm fairly relaxed, have no worries that I'm truly thinking about, but the pain seems to be worse than it was 2 days ago. I would have thought that by relaxing more, I would feel somewhat better and have some energy. Nope, no such luck.

Is this because I've been working through all this and not paying attention to myself and my body like I should have done, so now it's really kicking in or I'm just realizing more of the pain because I can actually think of myself now? And, does all this make any sense????