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Posted 5/5/2012 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
  wink  Hello everyone,

I am having a flare up again. For three days i have pretty much been in bed, or if i am lucky on the couch. Just about every joint in my body feels like it's swollen and on fire. The worst are my hands, elbows, knees, feet and ankles. The muscles running up the back of my legs just ache so bad when and after I walk.

 

As we speak I am missing out on my cousin's birthday party. Actually Three of us celebrate together, myself, my cousin and her daughter. I am really getting down about missing out on so much latley.

 

Anyway, I take all the vitamins i am supposed to take for joints. Im just trying to understand, why the flare up? I have not over done myself prior to this or eaten anything out of the ordinary. Im still trying to understand this disease. It's almost been a year. I have tried many different pills. The latest is Lyrica which only makes me tired and loopy. I also take Vicodin which helps a bit. I can take it with no side effects. I still work, thank God, part time with the public so I have to be able to function and communicate with people.

I have three sessions coming up with a massage therapist, She does a method called Bowen. It is supposed to help with pain. I am just trying everything i possibly can untill i find what works for me. I guess that is all I can do.

I am hanging in there, even though it is very tough. I just tell myself what i am thankful for instead of focusing on the bad. 

I gave you a subject line so  you will get more responses.

 

Sherrine

Post Edited By Moderator (Sherrine) : 5/5/2012 2:46:19 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/5/2012 8:51 PM (GMT 0)
Sometimes we can get flares for no good reason.  In the summer, I'm in a flare nearly all the time because of the humidity and afternoon rains we get here in the summer.  Thank goodness the vast majority of the year is perfect here so I do well.  If you have storms around you or a barometric change, that can cause more pain, too.  You'll get better than the weatherman in predicting the weather.

 

Have you tried malic acid/magnesium supplements and vitamin D3 supplements?  These help me and others on the forum.  I also use an alternative product called Curamin that has helped me a lot, too.  Also, you do need to keep moving with fibro.  You said you were either in bed or on the sofa.  You will have more pain if this is what you are doing.  Do some stretching exercises and little things around the house, sit down for a short while and then do a little more.  That's pacing yourself but yet you aren't sitting for long periods of time.  The movement keeps you more flexible.

 

I hope you start to feel better soon.  I know....this illness sure can be confusing!

 

Sherrine

Posted 5/5/2012 10:16 PM (GMT 0)
Where are you in your cycle? I feel worse a couple days before my period starts. I'm sorry you are hurting and the frustration of this.
Posted 5/6/2012 2:40 AM (GMT 0)
Sherrine,

Thank you for your advice. Most of the time i do stretch, do dishes, do laundry and all this a little at a time. Then I rest in between. But lately My feet and legs just hurt so so bad. I have even put a chair in the kitchen while im doing dinner.
I have to say I think arthritis must be playing a role in this as well, i have never had this much swelling. And i was told that this is not a Fibro thing.
I take D3 every day and Calcium and a multi-vitamin and fish oil. In fact they had me on a prescription dose for Vitamin D because i was so low. And yes i just started taking Malic acid and Magnesium. Im still waiting to see how that works.

Applevenus,

Its not close to my cycle. But I have notice that does make a big difference as well.

The weather around here has been back and forth though. Rainy then Sunny.

Thank you both for your responses.
Posted 5/13/2012 4:22 AM (GMT 0)
I have come to decide flare ups have no reason... I feel we look to triggers like weather to help us get by but i know I can get one on a perfect sunny day...
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