Hi everyone,
Sorry you've not heard from me in a while but i have been without internet for some time after the move. I'll try my best to get u all up to date in as short a post as possible, but quite a few things happend over the past few weeks so it might take some time :)
First and foremost: Did i survive the move?
Well barely is the answer to that one.... I tried taking everything a little bit slower than i would have one year ago bu to no avail.
The packing was all ok because i could do this in my first week off work and do it at a leisurly pace without having to hassle. Same for the unpacking all of that was pretty good. But the actual move was pretty close to hell itself... Some "friends" didn't show up on the day of the move leaving us two people short, meaning i had to go and drag heavy furniture as well because there was no other way to get all our stuff out of the old place and in to the new one. This obviously did me little good. For days and days after the move i felt utterly broken. I have been resting a lot since but i still don't feel like i've completely overcome this bad patch.
One thing is for sure though: I am never, EVER, moving house again, at least next time i'll get a movers company to do every single thing for me.
Next: How did my 2nd appointment at the Rheumy go?
So last week wednsesday i had my 2nd appointment with the rheumy, as i mentioned after the 1st one had had run some blood tests and taken some x-rays.
All my bloodwork came back negative except for some vitamins that are low but he said thats to be expected.
He was comfortable now to give me the full Fibro-diagnosis. So i finally have my definite answer and am now pretty much 100 % sure that Fibro is indeed what has been plaguing me all this time. As the rheumy allready suspected as much on my first appointment none of this realy surprised me. I am also today starting my 'treatment'.
Dr has prescribed me 'Redomex' to start off with and i will have to come back in 2 months to see if it is working for me or not. I will have to take one pill every evening 1 hour before i go to bed, this on top of my vitamins wich i have been taking now for i guess 2 months (allthough i must stay they haven't really helped at all, but for now i'll stick with it) I still have to get the pills since my pharmacist was closed last week so am only starting tonight.
Does anyone have any experience with Redomex? If so it would be nice to now in advance what i might expect from the treatment. Dr said it should help repair my damaged sleep pattern and hopefully lessen the strain on my joints and muscles that way.
Last: Family acceptance.
On the family side things have gotten a lot better. Boyfriend is completely undertsanding at the moment and is strying very hard to help me any wich way he can, so are my kids, who both have been absolutely great about this! My son is turning 11 this year so he's allreayd old enough to understand what fibro means and he is very helpfull around the house now cause he doens't want his mum to be in pain if he can help it, aint that sweet? :) My daugther is only 7 so she only know that mummy has some bad muscles and she needs to rest sometimes. She will then cuddle up next to me and say 'mum if i lie here and keep your back and legs warm, won't
that make you feel a bit better?' Equally sweet! Boyfriend had a bad case of flu the other week and had loads of aching muscle pain, during these days he asked me serveral times how in hell i could cope with that aching feeling on a daily basis and says he admires me for my strength and spirit and he doesn't get why i don't complain much more often. Again: Oooh aint that sweet! Since i've been having such a bad time lately all this love and acceptance from my family is really cutting the burden in half!
Ow yeah, one last thing: The weather!
We had ZERO days of sun, ZERO days of nice weather, nothing but rainy day after rainy day, one would think mother nature skipped straight from spring to autumn and didn't bother with the summer at all! seriously only one nice day we had, but that was the day after the move when i was too busy unpacking to actually enjoy it while it lasted.... So now i have moved to a place with a nice garden and i have hardly set foot in it. Now i'm back to work this week and guess what? The sun is out!! So it's been really depressing and the dampness is not doing me any more good either. I'm right now hoping that our boss sends us home round lunch time cause there is no work to be done and i would rather go out and be in the sun because by the weekend they are expecting more rain again.
By now you should all be very well updated, i'm looking forward to re-joining the group and hearing what everyone else has been up to!
Hugs Fiona
PS: I made two real life fibro friends last weekend, two realy nice belgium girls, and i justed wanted to mention how nice it is to have people in ur surroundings that do really understand the things u go through and i'm sure i'll be peeting up with these girls and that they will become very close friends!