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Posted 1/21/2012 1:45 AM (GMT 0)
I don't expect to spring out of bed, but for some time now I have had a really rough time getting out of bed in the morning. I feel like I had a big workout the day before, went to bed & woke up all sore & stiff. But I have to get up & get the kids off to school. Plus, I feel that I MUST get up, for my own good. I explained -- er, confessed -- to my husband that when he wakes me up & urges (feels like nagging at the time) me to get up, I hurt so bad I hate him with the white-hot intensity of a million suns! Not that I really doooo, it just feels like he is torturing me, but that he is right, I must get up. It helped him understand why I am so ornery in the mornings. I used to be a morning person too. I don't want to have to take a muscle relaxant every night. Does anyone have any tips/ideas?
Posted 1/21/2012 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
Most days, the rest of the day, my pain level is like having flu with body aches, but that is manageable
Posted 1/21/2012 5:03 AM (GMT 0)
I look like I am 90 years old when I get out of bed in the morning or should I say almost afternoon. I usually can't get to sleep till 2 or 3 am then I wake up several times so I sleep to about 11am most days unless I have an early doctor appt. My routine now is to do stretches in bed before my feet hit the floor. This stiffness has progessed so much this year that if I don't stretch I can hardly get to the bathroom. Once I get in the hot shower I loosen up. Now I will tell you after that wonderful full hour massage I had on Monday and taking fish oil faithfully I have noticed some improvement this week.
Posted 1/21/2012 7:01 AM (GMT 0)
I HATE mornings!!! I was never a morning person, but now I'm a bear.
I always try to get back to the oblivion of sleep, before I was aware that I hurt. But like you said, lunches have to get made, kids fed...
Even the knowledge that I will feel better in a couple hours doesn't help make waking any easier.
Why oh why does dh keep beating me with that baseball bat every night?!
Posted 1/21/2012 11:26 AM (GMT 0)
Hi applevenus,

Taking a shower in the morning helps me somewhat and eating a wholesome breakfast.

Good luck to you.
Posted 1/21/2012 2:09 PM (GMT 0)
I do stretches in bed before I attempt to get out of bed.  I'm very still and have a lot of pain.  I need to use a cane to get to the bathroom but, once I get moving, the pain subsides some.  But the stretches really do help me.

 

Sherrine

Posted 1/21/2012 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
It is always something with Fibro, isn't it? At least it's never boring! Thanks for the tips. I will try going to bed earlier & waking up earlier to give myself plenty of time to stretch. I don't like my husband having to be "the bad guy"
Posted 1/21/2012 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
I also have to do stretches before I can get up. I do the yoga "child's pose" for several minutes on my bed. This is laying on you tummy and bringing your knees up towards you chest. You are then trying to lay on your thighs. This helps to loosen up your lower back and hips. I still hurt but at least I can walk.
Posted 1/21/2012 5:30 PM (GMT 0)
The last thing I want in the morning is a shower. But, if I shower immediately, it does help me to banish the stiffness and pain.
Posted 1/21/2012 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
Since I work full time Monday through Friday I have no choice but to get out of bed. I admit that when the alarm goes off at 5 am I want to hurt someone as badly as I hurt myself. I do some stretches, take a hot shower, take my meds and eat a healthy breakfast that includes protein and lots of coffee. I'm always stiffest in the morning and it gets better gradually through the day. The forced routine of getting up at the same time every morning and having to go to bed at the same time every night is really good for me.

Weekends however, have been something else. I've been using that time to "catch up" on my sleep and each weekend was getting more and more lazy, sleeping 12+ hours, not doing much of anything at all and sometimes skipping showering one or (ick!) both days until my own stink bugged me! I finally told myself that I was making everything worse. Sleeping until noon on Saturday meant that I couldn't go to sleep before midnight...which meant that by Monday morning I was getting up and going to work on four or five hours of sleep. Plus all the extra time in bed was making me stiffer. I was getting more and more depressed as my house deteriorated around me.

Now I'm allowing myself a little extra time, but trying to get up by nine am on the weekends. That way I feel more caught up on my sleep and not too sore to do anything that day. There are always times when I don't, and I try not to berate myself too much when I don't follow my own self imposed rules.
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