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Posted 4/30/2013 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
I've realized that I am never really pain free.  The longer I've lived with it the more accustomed I am to it...I'm able to tolerate it. Everyday pain is like background noise...it is expected to be there. Flare pain has much more intensity and is more difficult to ignore but having had many flares, I can tolerate it because there is no other choice. Pain is still pain, it hurts but maybe we build up some tolerance.

Hugs,Robin

Posted 4/30/2013 3:40 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, it has been a "normal" thing to me at this point. My legs permanently feel sunburned. From my neck to my lower back hurts the worst. If I am on my feet, then it hurts EVERYwhere. I am just used to it now, but there are some days worse than others, and I do have flares. Sometimes the flares are so bad I can barely get out of bed for the day and can't go in to work.

I also periodically get jolts in my leg, hand, foot, that almost feels like a tattoo needle touching my skin.
Posted 4/30/2013 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
In a word, yes. Pretty much every movement I make is painful. It is painful to walk, sit, stand, move my arms, use my hands. My back hurts, my neck hurts, and my feet hurt. I have other conditions in addition to fibro that cause some of the pain, but I'm pretty much in pain all of the time.

Occasionally, I will wake up in the morning, and before I move I will have the sensation of being pain free. For me, being pain free is the odd sensation, not being in pain.

I just pretty much live my life in pain, expect it, accept it, and try to ignore it as much as possible.
Posted 4/30/2013 4:06 PM (GMT 0)
Oh yes, definitely.

Austen, I know just what you mean - those first few seconds of the day (if I'm lucky) I'll feel no pain, and it's glorious. Then I move. Lately it's my arm that hurts first, from my frozen shoulder. Or, if I'm standing in the shower not moving my arm, that seems to cover up pain.

about 22 years ago I went to a chiropractor for the 1st time. He commented that I must have a high pain threshold, because I had several joints that were locked down tight instead of being able to move in 4 directions the way they were supposed to, and I was still functioning. Well, I was barely functioning. But I thought that was interesting, since the rest of the world was basically telling me I was a lightweight.

Debbie
Posted 4/30/2013 4:52 PM (GMT 0)
Yes here too. And I have a high pain tolerance as well. Great topic!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful day. Got to run. Shoot!

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 4/30/2013 5:39 PM (GMT 0)
Pain has been a constant in my life since I was 12. I think almost any pain that is a daily visitor can be adapted to and put behind us. When it becomes unusual that's when I have a hard time still functioning.
Posted 4/30/2013 7:25 PM (GMT 0)
Huge "Yes" from the Peanut Gallery! :0))

All of my life I've had strange pains and I've gotten used to them as what someone mentioned "background noise". Then last summer it got almost intolerable and the Rhuemy told me it was fibro.

I love the moments when nothing hurts. Most days are at a level 5 for me. I can mostly ignore them, but lately they have been roaring up to an 8-9 for me. If I take a Tramadol and a tylenol more than once a day that is a bad day.
Posted 4/30/2013 8:40 PM (GMT 0)
Pain is an all the time thing for me in different degrees mostly depending on if I overdo or what I eat. Today I tested red potatoes for lunch, one of the foods I shouldn't be eating with the few special diets I'm on. More fibro pain this afternoon than usual.
Posted 5/1/2013 1:12 AM (GMT 0)
Robin, you described me to a "T". Pain is just a part of my life so I usually can ignore it most of the time...but not when I'm in a flare. It's sad but actually that we have the ability to shove it in the background.

Sherrine
Posted 5/2/2013 4:58 PM (GMT 0)
Ditto!!!

We're all in the same boats....just rowing at our own pace.

Karen
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