[sabby]

Hi angelene! Welcome to Psych Central!

I'm sorry to hear you are suffering right now. I'm glad most of your doctors and staff are good to you. I guess there are always some that we just don't gel with...frustrating eh?

I hope you are feeling better soon. Today I'm feeling a bit better, brain fog is still present though, but at least the weather has cleared and the aches and pains are minimal again. YAY!

[lizardlady]

UGH!!!!!

[lizardlady]

Sabby, I'll let you know about the light.

Has anyone here ever tried Biofreeze? I had a fibro headache Thursday that was so bad I wanted to throw up. I was getting muscle spasms in my neck from the headache. A fellow fibro sufferer suggested I try Biofreeze on my neck. It helped! The relief was temporary, but I'll take whatever help I can get.

[Travelinglady]

I use Biofreeze fairly often, liz. It does help with my pain.

[sabby]

I don't know why I never thought of using BioFreeze. I have some here and I just never think of it. Silly me!

Thanks for reminding me of it Liz, I'm glad you got some relief from it.

[angelene]

I never heard of it before. But now I'd like to try it!

[~Christina]

I love bio freeze unless its winter time... Oh I am dreading winter My pain always goes into high gear.

I adore my heating pad and rice filled microwave sock for my neck when its cold.

Honestly my pain stays at a level of 7 pretty much all the time, I have learned to handle it... But when it starts to creep up to a 8 or 9 I just come unglued feels like I can hardly breathe and have no way to handle it besides hit the benzios until I'm snowed under enough to crash and sleep, but can't sleep 24/7.

How do you all handle the spikes ?

[angelene]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

Honestly my pain stays at a level of 7 pretty much all the time, I have learned to handle it... But when it starts to creep up to a 8 or 9 I just come unglued feels like I can hardly breathe and have no way to handle it besides hit the benzios until I'm snowed under enough to crash and sleep, but can't sleep 24/7.

How do you all handle the spikes ?

I'm not quite sure how I'm handling being alive! It's that kind of day. Wouldn't it be grand if we could get a normal amount of deep, restful sleep?

[lizardlady]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

I love bio freeze unless its winter time... Oh I am dreading winter My pain always goes into high gear.

I adore my heating pad and rice filled microwave sock for my neck when its cold.

Honestly my pain stays at a level of 7 pretty much all the time, I have learned to handle it... But when it starts to creep up to a 8 or 9 I just come unglued feels like I can hardly breathe and have no way to handle it besides hit the benzios until I'm snowed under enough to crash and sleep, but can't sleep 24/7.

How do you all handle the spikes ?

Christina, I too am dreading winter. We get cold fronts that move through the state like freight trains. Every last one of them triggers my fibro. I talked to my pdoc about it last winter because my depression was worsening. The solution we came up with was for me to accept that I felt like crap, but it would eventually come to an end. It helped ease my depression. Didn't do a dang thing for the pain, but made it a little easier to cope.

I'm not sure I have any useful advice about how to handle the spikes. I'm having one today myself. My head hurts to badly I want to throw up. I came home from work early because I just couldn't deal with being there any longer. I told myself I'd work from home. Ain't going to happen. I'm going to wrap up in my warm throw and go to bed soon.

[sabby]

I'm having a spike now because of some life/death issues I'm going through. The weather is back and forth between sunny and rainy so that doesn't help one little bit. ugggh

Hopefully this weekend I can regroup and feel better by Monday and let's start the week all over again...

Gentle 's to you all. Wrapping up in a warm blanket sounds wonderful and I think that's what I'm going to do while watching some tv.

[SillyKitty]

Ugh. 6 hours of car riding to go to an hour and a half birthday party for my step-grandson. Came home to a wrecked house (dogs). I want to rip out my neck and spine, and just prop my head on what's left!!

[sabby]

Awww (((((((((( SillyKitty ))))))))))))) I'm so sorry you are feeling so "ruff".

Is there anything that the dogs screwed up something you absolutely have to take care of right away or can it wait until tomorrow when you hopefully can deal with it better?

I used to have 2 rotties and when we left, they decided it was time to do their damage, almost every single time. It was so maddening I wanted to scream. They chewed the corners of walls, the wood flooring, the furniture, even the leather sheath for my then husband's hunting knife. Luckily, whichever one did that didn't cut their mouth wide open in the process. *sigh*

It sucked coming home from work and finding all their little gifts to us. I was already exhausted and in a bad mood most nights and had to deal with the fibro and the anger at them. So yeah, I get what you are saying.

Please do your best self care. I really hope you are feeling better very soon!

[SillyKitty]

My husband did most of it. He can be a pretty good egg sometimes.

[sabby]

Ahhh good for you! Husbands can definitely come in handy at times.

[angelene]

The see-sawing weather is doing a number on me!

[sabby]

((((((((((( angelene ))))))))))) I hear you on that! I hope the weather straightens out soon and you feel some relief!

Take care!

[sabby]

I'm going on a trip in Saturday. I'll be in the car for about 6 hours or so total. I'm not looking forward to it. Going to a funeral of an ex husband/father of my kids. Can you say STRESSFUL???????????? ugggh

[lizardlady]

A friend accused me of being "grumpy" this week. I almost went off on her! Then she started talking about how tired she was the night before and went to bed at 8:30. I couldn't help myself. I said "Welcome to my life!"

I pointed out that calling me "grumpy" was hurtful. Side note - she calls me "grumpy" a lot when other people talk about my positive attitude. Anyway, then she said she meant I didn't seem like myself. I pointed out that calling me "grumpy" sends a very different message than asking if I'm okay because I don't seem myself.

I started a flare the beginning of the month. It's likely to last until about April. Winter here is one cold front after another. I hurt and am exhausted until they end in the spring. Does a "flare" that lasts for months count as a flare?

Sorry, I'm on the pity pot today. In addition to the fibro flare I picked up a headcold from those little bacteria factories (kids) I work with. I feel like poo today.

[sabby]

It's difficult sometimes when people use specific words to express something and those words can be hurtful. Sometimes, they don't think or they don't see that word in the same way as someone else might see the word. I'm sorry what your friend said hurt you Liz.

It's also difficult to put a smile on one's face when one is in pain and exhausted. It can take everything we've got to just get up and show up, nevermind smiling too. UGGGGH!!!!!!

Hang in there Liz.....I like to think that April is just around the corner.

[sabby]

I forgot to update after my trip to the funeral.

I was exhausted by the time I got home. I drove most of the way to CT and then most of the way home as well. It was probably a good thing that I was driving as it kept my mind off how tired I was.

Luckily, I wasn't in too much pain throughout the day. The stress level wasn't quite as bad as I thought it might be, thank goodness!

In the mean time, I've been struggling this week with pain in my lower half of my body for the most part. Hips, legs, knees, feet are all screaming at one time or another. UGGGGGHHHH!!

[jojo65]

I'm having a bad day.my feet are swollen and lots of pain.

[~Christina]

Fibro is hellish ! I also have horrible tendonitis on my left heel. As if I don't already hurt enough

So gonna throw some Steroids on it orally * Im Bipolar so that is probably going to be like tossing gas on a fire * If they doesn't help then off to see an Ortho Doc to see about injections into my heel and the tendons, Yeah that sounds outstanding

[sabby]

Here's a collective

ugggggh

for everyone. Please take the best care of yourselves that you can do.

[~Christina]

Well my morning started out with a bang.... Besides the steroids for tendonitis ( no improvement yet of course) Just raging my BP all up . My Fibro has been at a about a 7 just because it likes that #, apparently.

This morning taking my dog outside I fell off the 5 steps going outta my house to hit the ground on top of a cement planter. Arms , legs ankles, shoulders, hips,back,ribs hurt and I think I broke one of my boobs. Oh and my favorite robe? Ugh !

Just call me "Grace"

**sigh**

[roads]

We really, really, really need a Re-Do option ...

Have you soaked in a hot bath? Aroma therapy? Medicinal tea? A handful of Xanax

Did Sirius try to help you?

Withdraw with speed into Christina's Cave and nourish, snuggle, heal. I love you.

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