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Old Oct 29, 2015, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Pierro View Post
Thank you lettingGO and indeed everyone that so warmly welcomed me. I am going to see my rheumatologist on Monday, today I am angry with him because he left me with pain. I know this is irrational but I feel like that today. My arms are ready to fall off, he gave me ixprim for pain and I may as well take nothing because they don't touch the pain I have in my arms or in my neck. I am sorry for ranting today. I am off work with a bad bout of depression and I don't know if it's depression or fibromyalgia that is making me this way. The two conditions I have seem to melt together so I can't distinguish between them. I want to go back to work in the next couple of weeks and I am afraid that I won't be able to cope with being back. I need to go back for financial reasons , of course the bills keep coming in and it is a very expensive time of year coming up! Sorry for ranting so long, but I can't say this to my husband although he has been supportive I can't help but think he hates me for being off. Any suggestions on anything/ everything mentioned above. My brain don't work anymore and I just want to see an end to all this pain,as I know you all do. *hugs and best wishes to all*
Pierro, I believe if you took any healthy human being and subjected them to ongoing pain day after day they would be depressed too. What helps me is to focus on the idea that the current flare will eventually pass. Some times it works, some times it doesn't.

Something else that helps is something I mentioned to Cakeladie. I give myself permission to have pity party. I'll tell myself I have X amount of time to feel crappy and sorry for myself. Somehow giving myself permission to feel bad helps.

A soak in a tub of hot water helps me.

I have an electric heated throw that I wrap up in that really helps. I've been known t set the A/C really cold so I can wrap up in it in the summer.
Hugs from:
cakeladie, January
Thanks for this!
January, LettinG0, Pierro