New to fibro and I have some questions

HI! First, though i wish you did not need to be here, welcome. I am by far no expert and others maybe able to help you more. The sleeping: I have trouble falling to sleep but i always thought it was because i can not turn my brain off. Hubby lays his head down and he is alseep. My rheumy wants me to go to a sleep study because she says people with fibro often have trouble sleeping. I do wake up at night in pain, but since i usually do not fall asleep till i am exhausted, I sleep like a rock once asleep.

For some movement and physical activity can cause flares. I have other issues that make it hard to walk very far but some maybe because of the fibro.

Basically, everyone is different and fibro affects them differently. Others can help better than me.

You will find that people DO understand here while a lot of people in your life will not. I love this site. You will not ask any dumb questions,to me if the question is important enough for you to ask, it is not dumb. We are here to hear from others and get answers to anything we wonder about if possible.

Welcome to the fibro forum Liz! I hope you find this site very helpful. We are so different in many ways here. For me I could walk a few miles without hurting. If I have to do strenuous excercise it will cause me to go into a flare. My fatigue has got so much better since I started on thyroid medication. I know others are like you they can't walk very far without getting into pain. Many of us have numerious health problems besides fibro, so it's hard to really give the exact reason why some do hurt more then others. I have a 3 level cervical fusion and if I lift more then 5 pounds it causes me great pain. I know for others have similiar things like me. It's just not fibro alone.

Never feel like your question is crazy. This is how we all learn from each other. Each of us can bring valuable information to the forum. Most fibro patients doesn't sleep well. We never get into the right mode of sleep or the pain keeps us up. It has been shown in studies how poor we sleep. You might not be getting proper sleep if your feeling fatigue the next day.

I hope you continue to stay on the forum. It really has changed my life to the best. I learned how to manage my fibro from this site. I got no helpful tools from my Dr. This is priceless experience on this site. Lol

Thanks for all your replies, and thank you for making me feel so welcome and answering my questions. It makes me feel much better to know there is other people out there that actually understand what I am going through :)