Fibromyalgia Support Group

You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.

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yellowbunny9
yellowbunny9
Hey everyone-

Okay, so a storm is coming in, and the change in barometric pressure is causing me to feel faaaaaabulous!
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To this reply may be off topic but I have a question.. I have a 3 year old daughter and it can get really hard sometimes when I'm not having a good day.. How do you keep going?? My husband is a police officer and has crazy hours.. he has to sleep so it's like where is my time to lay down and sleep this off, or at least sleep to forget i'm hurting so bad.

After my post last night, my head started hurting and my body was real sore and stiff.. today isn't a good day and all I want to do is sleep. I try not to let this fibro get in between my daughter and I..how do you balance?
yellowbunny9
yellowbunny9
Qi2it: Mold...yick! That sucks that you have to dish out the $$$ to fix that....

Shannon: I don't have any children of my own (although we are starting to discuss when we want to start...and I'm a bit freaked about how I'd deal w/being pregnant and having fibro...but that's a whole other topic...), so I'm not certain how helpful my advice is.
But wrt managing my symptoms to deal w/work and other things I need to take care of, I try to make myself ignore that I'm in pain (with varying levels of success...hehe). When I'm having a very bad day, I'll take periodic breaks to breathe deeply (like what you do in yoga class) to calm myself down. I also do a lot of positive thinking (e.g. telling myself over and over that the pain isn't that bad, I can do whatever it is I need to do)...and after a bit of that I seem to have a better handle on it. I also listen to a lot of up-beat music -- right now my fibro-fav is Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger". :)