getting totally run down

Not sure who remembers me, I come and go from here quite often.

I'm in the midst of a terrible bout of my fibro, I'm not sleeping well, not eating well and I don't get to rest much. I'm a single mom of a 20 month old girl, I'm going to school at night, and several personal issues as well.

I'm in full body pain. Id say a 7 on the pain scale they always give you. And the fatigue is just as bad. Headaches. I'm overwhelmed and the biggest issue is I'm searching for a new rheumatologist and that's taking a while. The one I was seeing made it out that I'm young and I'll get over it. So I dunno, any suggestions on pain releif and just general ranting from me.

Hi AkinaChan,

I am sorry for what you are going through. I agree with Joy. Especially with the heat. I use a bed buddy. I don't know if you know what one is, but it is a fabric tube filled with rice. You put it in the microwave for a couple of minnutes. Wrap it in a towell ad put it around yourr neck. It relaxes you and takes away some of the pain. I carry all my tension in my shoulders, and when I get tense, I get pain. So this helps me a lot.

Another thing I recommend is walking as much as you can. And try to relax. Drink a lot of water too, it hydrates the muscles.

I hopet that you feel better soon. Keep posting, that helps too...

Hugs, Karen

Thank you all for all the suggestions. I'm interested in them and i'm going to try several tonight. I do agree that i need to eat better and sleep as well as i can. I unfortunately don't get much time to myself between the baby and school, i live with my parents but they both leave early for work and come home late. My mom does watch my daughter at night while i go to school but i do the majority of her care taking, and her father rarely ever helps me. I've been ok until last week when i suddenly started to wake up with the extreme fatigue again and then the pain set in, i dealt until this week, it's been hard and on top of it the entire house hold except me is sick and i just know that if i get sick right now it'll be terrible. I forgot how bad this can be, after i had my daughter i had few problems and i'm not sure why my body had suddenly gone crazy. So far i have not located a rheumatologist but i'm looking and will not settle for one that treats me like i'm stupid.