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pain revisited
Jun. 7th, 2007 01:40 pmMuh.
Pain ow.
Body ache.
In/co/he/ren/cy very slowly inching back toward coherency.
I have decided that reading and learning from articles and blogs of people with fibromyalgia can help me significantly. Although I may not have the condition (doctors haven't figured it out yet), I have enough similar "symptoms" and associated problems that it makes sense to try an exercise regime that will specifically target the type of pain and discomfort I experience daily. Narrowing it down to "remedies for fibromyalgia" is easier than trying to gather "remedies for non-specific widespread chronic pain that could be anything and everything OMGWTF".
The main reason I don't think I have that specific syndrome is because I do have cerebral palsy, which is infamous for causing pain, fatigue, and major annoyances all over the body. However, I know a lot of people with CP who have actually been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, separate from their CP. There just aren't a lot of websites out there that cater to "pain caused by CP".
To those who do have fibromyalgia, my heart goes out to you. Especially because it can take years to actually diagnose, and because I have yet to find even one doctor who actually takes it seriously.
(When I went to the rheumatologist some time ago, she couldn't find anything specifically wrong, either. and people wonder why I get so horribly frustrated)
At what point does "non-specific widespread chronic pain" ever get better, anyway.
Don't answer that.
There is a reason I do not blog too much about my daily pain issues. It is because they are daily. After a while, this gets boring.
Pain ow.
Body ache.
In/co/he/ren/cy very slowly inching back toward coherency.
I have decided that reading and learning from articles and blogs of people with fibromyalgia can help me significantly. Although I may not have the condition (doctors haven't figured it out yet), I have enough similar "symptoms" and associated problems that it makes sense to try an exercise regime that will specifically target the type of pain and discomfort I experience daily. Narrowing it down to "remedies for fibromyalgia" is easier than trying to gather "remedies for non-specific widespread chronic pain that could be anything and everything OMGWTF".
The main reason I don't think I have that specific syndrome is because I do have cerebral palsy, which is infamous for causing pain, fatigue, and major annoyances all over the body. However, I know a lot of people with CP who have actually been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, separate from their CP. There just aren't a lot of websites out there that cater to "pain caused by CP".
To those who do have fibromyalgia, my heart goes out to you. Especially because it can take years to actually diagnose, and because I have yet to find even one doctor who actually takes it seriously.
(When I went to the rheumatologist some time ago, she couldn't find anything specifically wrong, either. and people wonder why I get so horribly frustrated)
At what point does "non-specific widespread chronic pain" ever get better, anyway.
Don't answer that.
There is a reason I do not blog too much about my daily pain issues. It is because they are daily. After a while, this gets boring.
