You know the type of day where you either want to pull out your hair by the roots or sit down and cry or maybe laugh hysterically? There’s no real way to handle a day like I had today. So, you plug along doing what you can and hoping that when it arrives, tomorrow will […]
Saturday was the worst flare up of Fibromyalgia pain I’ve had in over a year. After I woke myself up whimpering, the day seems to slide down a very steep hill. At first it was my lower back and I took aspirin. Several hours later I’d upgraded to a big pain killer — no difference […]
Today has been a real challenge. Most of last week I kept having lower back pain on top of the usual fibromyalgia issues. It was constant pain with, now and then, a bad twinge. Finally, today I just couldn’t take it anymore and took a muscle relaxer. I figured I’d been thinking it was kidneys […]
Woke up to find the house surrounded in fog. At first I didn’t notice because the rain was pattering on the sky light and it was rather dark. Once I got up and looked out there was fog, the thin grey blanket type over, around, and cloaking everything. It made for the kind of grey, […]
Today when I opened my online news source, I was greeted with an article about the FDA wanting to pull many of the prescribed painkillers containing acetaminophen off the market. Philly.com has this article Painkillers at a crossroads as FDA decision looms. The Globe and Mail had this article, U.S. FDA recommends pulling some painkillers […]
Today’s post is a bit of whining and complaining about pain — feel free to skip. Not really pins, but needles. Today, I saw my acupuncturist–she’s great. I always feel so much better after a treatment. This past month has been pretty much a haze of pain. Changing weather causing migraines. A major fibromyalgia flareup. […]
Maybe it could be a song, I haven’t slept much in during the last two nights. I spend time in bed, but just don’t manage to drop down deep enough in sleep to dream. I toss and turn and turn and toss and finally get up and read or watch something. Sometimes I really wish […]