Does anyone else have this type of pain that drives me CRAZY??????

 Travelling pain in the FASCHIA of your body that jumps around????

I can get excruciating pain in what feels like the skin and muscle in my back, side, front that really hurts and then disappears within 10 minutes, only to be replaced by pain somewhere else.??? It's driving me crazy!!! 

I may be a newbie to this forum, but I think, even though diagnosed 4 years ago at the age of 60, I believe I have had FM since my late twenties (off and on).

Fibro fog also comes and goes. What is incredible to me, is that I become totally aware of the fog descending, and I can tell when it  is lifting.

 It's  the time in between when I feel  totally unreliable to myself.

 I think I am mentally gone, and that time varies with every episode.

I only have a few people that know this fibrofog secret of mine, and I see no reason to let more people in on it.

 I have been on cymbalta 30 mg  for the past 2 years, and it has done wonders for my mood and I suspect it has also helped my FM. I am supposed to double the dose for a fog episode. It makes a difference, I find in the duration.

Can anyone tell me of their fibro fog experiences??

 Thanks in advance.

In high school, I was on the track team.  I won one of the races in a big meet; that is, I would have if I'd run the whole distance.  I mistook a lighter line in the gravel for the finish line, until everyone else ran way past me.  Oops! Again, I just thought my head was in the clouds.  My coach wasn't too amused...

I must have left my purse on top of the car or in the grocery cart literally 30 times (I may have a guardian angel because I've always gotten everything back!)  I  can misplace anything, anytime, anywhere.  My husband says, "Whatever you do, don't put it in a safe place, you'll never see it again!"  and he's right.  I can be reading something that I know is satire, and halfway through start taking it seriously. 

I so rarely DO feel my brain is firing on all cylinders that it's a good thing I don't have to keep it from people generally.  Just last night, I took food to the wrong dinner on the wrong night at the wrong time.  It's a wonder to me that I function as well as I do!    My parents were a bit absent-minded themselves (not from fibro) so maybe they didn't think I was that odd.  The brain is a mysterious organ, for sure! 

What about your stories?    

I forget names too, all the time.  One time I was trying to say something about one of the bird feeders outside and it came out like this:  "you know.......that wire cage thingy that the solid food goes in??"  it was the suet feeder.

Tair: I can relate. But it is good that you have someone that understands when you are in a fog.

My b/f does too for the most part. He has been really trying to understand my heat waves which I believe are from Firbo but also from Menapusesing also.

I watch children and sometimes when I'm talking to a parent I forget things and kind of stutter. It is so embrassing. But they all seem to understand and are great.

The pain yeah that gets to me too. I make a joke out of it on some days, when my shines hurt like someone has kicked me, if Mitch is around I'll laugh and tell him that the old ghost just walked up and kicked me. Lately though because of the weather and I think I have arthis too it gets bad. Lately I have been having pain around the base of my neck and it will wake me up but then after a few minutes it goes away and there's pain somewhere else.

I hope you get to feeling better.

Veronica