pain and exhaustion

Yep the pain while not extreme is constant at present maybe its lack of sleep leading to all the pain or the pain meaning I am not sleeping well who knows.

I spend everyday waiting to go back to bed and sleep.

By 8pm I am going to sleep in front of the TV then an hour later I am awake and this goes on all night.

I just want to go to sleep and stay asleep for at least 6 hours.

By lunch time every day I feel like I have walked into a wall where my energy level just disappears.

Tomorrow I dread as i am taking my MIL shopping this will be hard as not only she told she plans to spend the WHOLE day shopping but with her mental health failing she is very hard to cope with as she tends to walk into a store then forget why we are in there.

I mean she had 9 children 8 still alive 4 boys 5 girls why am I a DIL the one who always draws the short straw. I know she complaints after we do this EVERYTIME

All my SIL'S WORK is their excuse I am on disability so I have the time to take her shopping.

My DH tells me she will forget we even took her the next day, but she is NOW seeing a GP which she had not been. I am so over my inlaws she does everything for them yet we do it all for her,then it is no one will help me.

Family who needs them really

Kathy

FMS,CFS, IBS,Migraine

I was told many years ago i had Fibro but have coped well for a very many years until the last 12 months...I have just undergone a host of test..arthritis thru to ross river virus etc and now i have been told it Fibro....i live with constant pain. I'm 52 run a small cafe and HAVE to work as its only 1 year old. I wake up on and off all night with tingling in hands, my knees are tight and now for the first time my hands "lock up" and its so hard to open them..then theres the feet!! once out of bed i start to become less stiff and sore. I am at work for 8 hours and am trying to swim at least 3 times a week and stretch as much as i can. However some days its just too hard. Does anyone have anything that has helped them that doesnt cost an arm and a leg? I take fish oil, muscleze (magnesium) and high doses of vit C powder.
I wont give up but certainly could do with helpful comments!!! I unfortunately don't get to rest a lot due to my work. TO give this up would ruin me financially so until i can get it profitable and sell i have to work.

My mother was the same way. We would spend the day together with lunch and some shopping. If we went to a restaurant of my choice she would complain the whole time, the room too cold, music too loud, waitress too slow...etc. etc. But, if I would ask her to make the choice she would say, I don't really care, where ever you want to go is fine with me. Then the stores.....too crowded, lines too long, music too loud, too many teenagers...etc, etc. But, every week she wanted to go. I really think she enjoyed the trips and being with me but was just a chronic complainer. I just made up my mind to enjoy myself inspite of her negative attitude and just say " yes, mom, I agree" and move on to another subject.

i am glad today is over yes she saw her GP a waste of time.
We went to our local small shopping centre and my MIL would of gotten loast only I kept an eye on her she had no idea what was going on for a few mins. Stress does not cover today she decided that not only would she see her GP also have her eyes tested also her hearing how we had appointments ourselves at 4pm at that time we still had her shopping this is from 10am this morning never again I just can not cope and we are going to have to tell the rest of the family my DH health is not up to running round after her either some one else is going to have to be the ones who are responsible for her.
He will need to have major surgery before June and then for 6 months after that he will be doing nothing as we wait for him to heal.
We have done this for years and enough is enough, next time she asks we will be too busy that may seem tough
Kathy

I really do not know how anyone works with fibro, I volenteer one day a week and I am lucky because my DD is my boss so if I am having a bad day she just tells me to stay in bed
kathy