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Posted 6/22/2012 9:03 PM (GMT 0)
Does anyone experience flares with extreme fatigue at first? I have everyday "background" pain like most people when I am not flaring. The other day I did alot, and the next day I got up at 6:30 (which I never do) and left the house. I noticed all of a sudden fatigue hits me like a ton of bricks. I just don't get tired, I feel heavy, weak, off balance and veryyyy tired. I came home and took a 2 hour nap. After I got up I still felt tired, pain increased somewhat and later that evening I had a bad headache. (probably migraine) Today I am feeling tired, I took about a 30 minute nap and haven't did to much.

Just wondering if anyone else has the fatigue and off balance/dizziness hit them first. It feels like you have energy then all of a sudden you are drained and can not even get up. Sometimes I think I have chronic fatigue syndrome wiht my fibro. My pain symtoms are not as bad as they used to be, but seriously I think if I kept pushing myself after the first symtoms of fatigue etc, my pain would slowly get worse.

Thanks for your input!! turn

Posted 6/22/2012 10:08 PM (GMT 0)
oh yea !! yeah The just find a hole and hide for a few days tired ..dont care if i have to go the the bathroom /eat /drink I can't move tired. I had that just a couple weeks ago. I just want to be alone cause I'm very very grouchy (which normaly very easy going) and cry at the drop of a hat. It can last for a couple of days to up to a week. Hate it and no way to understnd it unless you experience it.

Post Edited (kittietta) : 6/22/2012 4:13:28 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 6/23/2012 12:08 AM (GMT 0)
Sounds an awful lot like my flares of whatever is wrong with my joints. I get super tired and my joints swell and hurt. I tend to lay down with my kitties and cuddle and fall asleep. When I'm awake I feel really out of it. It lasts for a couple days usually.
Posted 6/23/2012 12:58 AM (GMT 0)
My fatigue hit me yesterday after I was on my feet for several hrs. I have to rest and I was kind of grumpy for awhile. It kind of let's me know I could never go back to a 40 hr. work week. Hats off to the ones that are still working.
Posted 6/23/2012 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
yeah mine is just crazy. I feel good and my pain is low, then instead of getting tired gradually, it just falls to fatigue and extreme tiredness. I usually get dizzy, get off balance, and start a bad headache. My pain increases too, not to severe level but very uncomfortable. I feel better today but still not back to my "normal" fibro self.
Posted 6/23/2012 3:32 AM (GMT 0)
Oh yes sounds very familiar. We live with different types, levels, and areas of pain everday and it can be terrible, but I have never felt so emotional, frustrated, and helpless as when the exhaustion hits! It can come before a flare for me as well, but it also creeps in at different times. That along with the achy bone feelings are the worst. I am dealing with it now as well. Feel better.
Posted 6/23/2012 5:05 PM (GMT 0)
Yes that just happened to me.

I have been doing yard work and I came in to eat and I got real dizzy and tired and it makes me have to take a xanax because my panic attacks come when I get like that.

It seems like I have had a flare up since I got sick a few months ago and was in the hospital for a few days.

Posted 6/24/2012 2:00 AM (GMT 0)
Delta,
I do the same thing! I get dizzy and tired at first...I know when that happens I better stop what I am doing and rest. With fibro your energy level doesn't just taper off slightly...it does a nose dive fast and before you know it you've done to much and it's to late.
Posted 6/24/2012 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
I usually start with a migraine type headache behind my head and then the rest of my body gets sore. It is a deep down type of pain. It don't get dizzy or anything. I do get very fatiqued. I will have a flare up one day and have lasting effects for several days afterwards.
Posted 6/24/2012 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
My flare pain is never consistent...in the way it begins, pain level or duration. the fatigue level also changes. I've had fatigue so overwhelming that I could take my shower but not enough energy to towel off...I'd have to sit to wait till I did not feel so weak, There have been days in the past where taking a shower could exhaust me for an entire morning...luckily it has been a long time since I've experianced that extreme.

Having fibro along with a number of other conditions puts me in any easy position to flare, when one condition flares the others seem to want equal opportunity to cause me some pain.

The flare care is a routine for me...gentle stretches, soaking in the tub throughout the day...using my moist heat pads in between soaks...taking muscle relaxers as needed and keeping busy with an activity to distract the pain. I always do deep breathing, meditation and visulization everyday, but during flare time, I always add a few extra sessions.

My worst flares involve what I refer to as bone crushing pain, it is so intense that it literally makes me short of breath and feel very weak, my body actually writhes around until I'm so exhausted that I don't know if I pass out or just fall asleep from the exhaustion of it.

I always think while flaring...how thankful I am this type of pain is not an everyday occurance and feel more prepared to deal with the "normal everyday pain and achiness."

Hope anyone that is flaring their flare will soon end and find some pain relief.

Hugs, Robin
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