Chronic Pain Support Group
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I should have known this would happen but don't we like to believe that what caused us pain in the past won't now? Last week our weather cooled down considerably and we got alot of rain for three days. It has stayed pretty cool since last tuesday or so. The very day the weather changed I had considerably more pain than usual and its not letting up one bit, just getting worse.
It actually feels like I'm going into a FMS flare for the first time in years. My pain is not just in my back, buttocks and hips like usual. I have alot of pain all the way down my legs, my right foot and basically some pain everywhere. My arms are super tired and my hands are cramping up from drawing - something I've been doing for months but never had a cramping problem until today. But that's what I was like when my FMS was really bad years ago. I spend alot of my day lying down or reclining and usually have a sketch pad and pen handy to doodle when I'm bored. Today my arms would get so tired from holding them up that I had to stop and my hands were cramped from holding the pen.
This afternoon I was taking sharp sudden pains in my right hip so bad I almost fell more than once. I was just lucky I was near something to grab onto every time. The pain down my leg, which is usually just normal sciatic pain, feels more like its right into the bones now, like the FMS pain I remember so well.
I've been working so hard to get better... doing physio 3 times a week(hard core) for months now, after 4 months of lighter physio at a different clinic. It should have helped some by now but I'm feeling just as bad as last year at this time, maybe worse. I'm super discouraged and very depressed. Yesterday was such a horrible day my bf went out to our 24 hr super store and bought me a dozen pink roses, he's so sweet and good to me and I just feel useless.
Is anyone else finding their pain increasing with the fall weather starting? Thats if it is cooling off where you are. I hate to think what January will be like if I'm in this much pain now. Even taking my maximum allowed BT meds I'm still left wishing I had more. If it weren't for kids getting up for school in the morning I'd have no reason to get out of bed.
SadsadLisa (makes me remember why I picked this screen name)
It actually feels like I'm going into a FMS flare for the first time in years. My pain is not just in my back, buttocks and hips like usual. I have alot of pain all the way down my legs, my right foot and basically some pain everywhere. My arms are super tired and my hands are cramping up from drawing - something I've been doing for months but never had a cramping problem until today. But that's what I was like when my FMS was really bad years ago. I spend alot of my day lying down or reclining and usually have a sketch pad and pen handy to doodle when I'm bored. Today my arms would get so tired from holding them up that I had to stop and my hands were cramped from holding the pen.
This afternoon I was taking sharp sudden pains in my right hip so bad I almost fell more than once. I was just lucky I was near something to grab onto every time. The pain down my leg, which is usually just normal sciatic pain, feels more like its right into the bones now, like the FMS pain I remember so well.
I've been working so hard to get better... doing physio 3 times a week(hard core) for months now, after 4 months of lighter physio at a different clinic. It should have helped some by now but I'm feeling just as bad as last year at this time, maybe worse. I'm super discouraged and very depressed. Yesterday was such a horrible day my bf went out to our 24 hr super store and bought me a dozen pink roses, he's so sweet and good to me and I just feel useless.
Is anyone else finding their pain increasing with the fall weather starting? Thats if it is cooling off where you are. I hate to think what January will be like if I'm in this much pain now. Even taking my maximum allowed BT meds I'm still left wishing I had more. If it weren't for kids getting up for school in the morning I'd have no reason to get out of bed.
SadsadLisa (makes me remember why I picked this screen name)
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
Sorry your having such a hard time right now. My pain is primarily joint/bone/muscle pain so mine always get worse with seasonal changes and anytime it's cool/cold and damp it's the worse for me. I'm in NC and we had a big cool off this weekend.
I take a lot of very, very hot baths when it starts to get like this, and use the Thermacare heatwraps so that I have heat on the bad spots all the time. I realize it's a little harder to do that when you have pain all over in cases such as Fibro, but maybe you could put them in the worst areas. And perhaps sleeping with heating pads or even a heating blanket at night might help. I've found if I can keep my joints warm, the morning pain is less and they don't get as stiff. I do generally take a dose of BT meds around 2:00 a.m. so that the pain isn't completely out of control. All that extra planning seems to help things not get to crazy.
I hope things settle down and acclimate for you soon.
kat
hopefully with some time u will adjust too :)
take some time to rest for that adjustment,skip one of those pt sessions if u need to. soak in a warm not hot tub.
love n hugs lisa (hope u get to feeling happier)!
why do you do a warm tub instead of hot? I'z curious...
Kat
This is why we have to fight these stupid docs who believe in a med holiday every 90 days. That would destroy my life.
Hot showers work as well as baths. Also epsom salts sometimes help increase the theraputic effects of the warm water.
Is FMS the same as Fibromyalgia? If so, the weather changes really affects it. It's cooled off here too, but I'm loving it. I feel so much better in cooler weather with less humidity.
Sorry you're having more pain- hopefully as the weather normalizes, you'll feel better.
Sandy
I guess I'm an odd duck. It seems any extreme temperature causes flares. This summer has been brutal for me. Of course in Texas, it gets pretty hot too. Can't wait for the temperature to drop from 95 this week to 73 on Friday due to a cold front dropping in on us. I have a sense of impending doom, lol.
katlyn, hot baths are my best friend in the winter. Showers too. If I have an early doctor's appt, I couldn't possibly make it without the loosening power of baths and showers!
I use to think my mom was crazy when she would complain about the rain (feeling it in her "bones" as she would say).. but after 8yrs of pain and 4yrs of extreme pain & neuropathy I understand beyond a shadow of a doubt! It went from 80/95 last week to 60/80!! Sunday also decided to rain on top of it all. It was horrible, my mood was horrible, I was just flat out horrible! It is hard to explain to family why you are being ill on these types of days too.
I am so sorry to hear that the weather is taking its toll on you as well. Best wishes and high hopes that maybe one day our bodies can auto-adjust to these changes (ummm, maybe;))
Someone actually told me they'd love to be in my body for a week "to loss weight".
They'd have to take the pain too. And I'd never come back for the darn thing ever again.
LOL