
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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I am finding that on the days when my pain is at its worst, I really don't want to talk...to anyone! I really have nothing to say and have little patience for small talk. I have always blamed it on the pain, taking everything I have just to deal with it. It is beginning to affect my relationships with family and friends...some understand and we can sit in silence for hours, just enjoying each others company. But some insist that I must be mad if I'm not responding "appropriately" to their words. Does anyone else find this a problem???
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Lost one friend to this, and another spent a lot of time talking to others about how I 'am,' that I don't put forth enough into friendships, etc.
The good news is... I'm mostly too tired to care what anyone else thinks.
Those who stick by me and don't push... they hold a special place in my heart, and I'll tell you what.. you really learn who your friends REALLY are when you have this condition....
*hugs*
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Maybe it will help. I hope so.
At first they are accepting, because they think it is going to pass. Then they become impatient. Then they become hurt/angry. And then, if you are as unlucky as I am; they start to blame Us for our situation.
(Well! There was a rant if I ever heard one!)
Please! Take your rest. Make your space everything you need: find all the comfort your spirit needs to grow; give your body the time it needs to heal; feed your mind positive, helpful, funny, suspensful, and useless stuff. Love yourself as your very own best friend and through this you will know who the Rest of your friends truly are.
I my case it was not my own children.