A weather front "beat" me up

Hi Crazy,
I usually get like this in the spring and in the fall during the real bad hurricane season.
Even though I live here in NY it IS still possible to feel the fronts moving around. I've
done the body spasms kick...I call it the paper bag method, it feels like someone crushes
a paper bag and throws it on the floor, when the spasm eases up it feels like smoothing the
paper out again, only to be hit a few minutes later. I had one night 3 flexoril, 3 darvacet and
some tylenol and nothing touched it. I'm doing different herbals now and it helps tremendously
but I still end up about twice a year getting a deprol medrol shot for pain. I've had arthritis
for 50 years so I have a good pain level but on my scale it hits around a 20. Hope you're feeling
better as up here we have had rainstorms moving in for the last 2 weeks.
Nana Monster

Thanks Nana and LupusMomma, I've had so many flares in the past but this was was so atypical in that the pain was jumping off the scale before I knew it.

For fibro, I do take Savella and use a muscle relaxer when needed.
Vitamin D 3 and B12 also helps me.

I'm feeling much better and got a walk in today and have been using moist heat. Flares pass they always do...Thank Goodness :)

Hugs, Robin

Robin,

We had a storm system colme through today and I was hit like you, but not as bad as you. I began the day feeling ok, although I was pretty sore because I was weeding yesterday and frankly I just did way too much, knew it, but I felt so good...you'd think I'd know better by now. Anyway, I felt the weeding in my lower back and legs this morning, but I was okay and even went for a 40 min walk, but then this afternoon, boy did it hit me and I slept on and off for almost three hours...just knocked the garbage out of me, not to mention all the pain. I'm so crabby now, don't even want to be with anyone (and that means hubby stay away!!)...as you said, this too shall pass...

Miriam

Robin - When I read your post last night I immediately read it to my husband. His jaw fell open and we were both in disbelief because the same thing happened to me on Saturday night! We were at my parents’ house for a BBQ as a part of a wedding celebration for family friends. The storms had been in and out all day and I was in a little pain and tired most of the day, but around 8 pm things began to get really bad. I had horrible shooting spasms up my neck and I was getting more and more uncomfortable by the minute. I tried to stick it out since we had so much company. I tried to eat dinner and when I almost vomited at the table because I was so nauseous from the pain I knew it was time to go upstairs to lay down. My grandmother commented how tired I suddenly looked and I knew my pain was very noticeable at that point.

Once I was upstairs laying down it went from bad to worse. Every muscle in my body was tight as can be. I had the bone crushing pain – it felt like someone had taken a vice grip and was squeezing my elbows, knees, hips and shoulders. My body was getting tingly and I felt like I was losing my mind. I literally could not open and close my hands at one point because my muscles were so tight. In a moment like that you’re convinced that amount of pain is going to kill you. When the pain is that bad for me and the flare is so out of control my anxiety also goes out of control. Like you I definitely thought I was going to pass out at different points. Thankfully there were a few downpours that came and began to lessen the intensity of the pressure in my body a little bit. But I could not move, I just laid on my bed staring at the ceiling because that’s all I could do. I was doing deep breathing and just trying to get through it. Since I don’t take any meds for the pain I had no choice but to cry my way through it. I would say I maybe have 4 times a year that I would kill for morphine, and that was definitely one of them.

Like you, a flare has never hit me like that before. The last time I had pain so severe and sudden was when costochonritis first hit. Crazy, I was fine one minute helping serve some food and the next minute I was out of commission. My husband was great and sat with me since I was so scared, but he knew I was going to be fine. I felt like I had been run over by a steam roller and I could have slept all day yesterday trying to recover from that. Pain certainly makes you tired!

Hope you’re feeling better Robin! I’m definitely still getting there.