HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Morning stiffness

Support Forums
>
Fibromyalgia
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 8/15/2013 10:05 AM (GMT 0)
When does your morning stiffness start? When you wake up, when you get up or sometime after?

I often wake up feeling pretty good (before getting out of bed) and a little stiff and achey upon getting out of bed. But after being up for 1/2 to an hour the pain starts kicking in bad. The typical fibro burn and fatigue. I know it's not food or blood sugar related.

So I was just wondering what "morning stiffness" looked like with all of you!
Posted 8/15/2013 1:27 PM (GMT 0)
My pain and stiffness pretty much starts the moment i open my eyes. I takes me close to 20 minutes to get up in the morning. Followed by a painful trek down the stairs and into a hot shower which really is the only thing that gets me going. Mid to late morning is the best time for me on a daily basis it seems. But everything starts to flare up and i get absolutely exhausted come 2-3 pm.

SO thats my input :-)

Posted 8/15/2013 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
I awake with stiffness, but doing some gentle stretching and putting all my joints through a full range of motion helps me. During the day, I will take time to do some gentle stretches and I also try to get a daily walk in too. I think exercise is not an optional activity for fibromites but a must or you hurt all the more. Inactivity makes you more stiff and sore...exercise strengthens muscles and gives us a boost of energy. It does help with the fatigue.

Hugs, Robin
Posted 8/15/2013 1:31 PM (GMT 0)
I have stiffness/pain the minute I get out of bed. I especially have it in my back, but I have had previous back surgeries, and I have spinal arthritis, so that contributes. I have trouble making it up the stairs first thing too.

After an hour or so, the stiffness abates, but as I use my limbs, the fibro pain starts to kick in, so I kinda trade one for the other.
Posted 8/15/2013 2:45 PM (GMT 0)
I have it as soon as I get out of bed...but a quick hop in a very hot shower takes care of it. I let the hot water roll down my back for a few minutes and I have instant relief. Then it doesn't really kick in again until early afternoon.
Posted 8/15/2013 3:44 PM (GMT 0)
I posted about this in your "Feeling Better???" thread. 

 

Sherrine

Posted 8/15/2013 4:35 PM (GMT 0)
Mine is terrible in the morning and off and on during the day.
Posted 8/15/2013 10:42 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Mama,

Like you, I wake up feeling good, but the aches and stiffness start as soon as I sit up....big dose of reality in the face! It's been this way for a looong time. I take my pain and thyroid meds first thing.

I always have to get up at least 2 hours before I have to be somewhere. It just takes me that long to eat, have my coffee, remember who I am and where I'm going, gather what I need to bring, and get out the door. (Even if I get it all together the night before, I end up having to change it.)

It feels like I'm walking through water or something at first - I suspect this is pretty common with us? - the bod don't want to move....the stomach to digest....or the brain to think! eyes

Debbie

✚ New Topic ✚ Reply