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I was curious if anyone played the piano or even has an idea if this is what's going on. I used to play piano pretty good. I stopped for awhile but I figure it's almost like riding a bike. Anyway, when I tried to start playing again, after I was diagnosed with fibro, I had a hard time playing with both hands. I can do okay with just one hand but trying to get them to play together is a struggle. I was just wondering if it had to do with fibro or fibro fog. I'm hoping if I keep practicing, i can play again. I think though it's going to take a lot longer to play a piece of music now then it used to be.
Later, I played for myself, and only for myself. I haven't lost my coordination. But I have lost something equally important. I used to have perfect pitch. Perfect pitch has nothing to do with singing.
Perfect pitch is instant pitch recognition. As fast as someone would play a note on the piano, I would recognize it, with my back turned. At that music school they tested me and tried to trip me up by going all over the keyboard very fast but I knew what each note was; they had never seen anyone so accurate. I was like a walking voice detector for the same reason.
This is something you are born with; it can't be developed, and it supposedly can't be lost. Yeah, hah.
It can be lost if you are brain-damaged. You guessed it. It was as if one day I woke up and was suddenly color-blind. I couldn't tell one note from another. Picture this: suddenly you can't tell whether something is pink or blue. That's how startling and upsetting it was.
AND NO DOCTOR gave a sh*t. THEY didn't have perfect pitch, they didn't have any idea that it was a loss at all. I tried to say, what if you woke up and couldn't hear at all? Or one day people were talking at you and it sounded like a foreign language?
But doctors don't have time for empathy. They don't care.
I haven't gone near a piano since. My grand piano is in a storage room; haven't touched it for so long. I'm sure it must be out of tune but of course I can't tell how much out of tune anymore.
Fibro and CFIDS and all these illnesses that nobody takes seriously are capable of doing ANYTHING. Because they affect the BRAIN.
So if you don't know why something is happening, then yes, it must be the fibro.
I sincerely hope you wake up one day and don't have the coordination problems. Who knows. Anything is possible. I didn't keep at it like you are doing. So maybe your abilities will come back as mysteriously as they went.