What a night. I couldn’t get to sleep until after 3. I woke up at 9 and nearly started crying. I tried and tried, and I ended up falling back to sleep until 11:00. Whew. I feel like a zombie waking up today. I feel like I got run over by a train. I’m not even noticing the fibromyalgia because of feeling so messed up from sleep. At least I got the sleep I needed. I’ll recover from the zombie feeling. Let’s see what effect is has on the pain and fibro. I haven’t quite shaken the last flare up that started last week when I went to the dentist.
Surprisingly it didn’t take all that long for that grogginess to calm down. Then it just left behind the normal fibromyalgia fog. I suppose it has been a better day than the last several, but I do feel a ton of spine pain. When the fibromyalgia is high, I feel pain everywhere. Almost like I’m on fire, plus a terrible hangover. It becomes difficult to accurately localize the pain because there is pain everywhere. When the fibromyalgia eases, the localized pain comes screaming to the forefront with full force.
Still, I’ll take the brutal spine pain over fibromyalgia any day. Usually if it’s just pain, I can treat it with Icy Hot, ice packs, ibuprofen, the inversion table. Most treatments help, but if you add in fibromyalgia, nothing helps. There is no relief, there is no treatment, and there aren’t really even any medications. You’re just fucked and you’re forced to lay there and endure it until it somehow magically eases up and gives you time to breath before it pushes your head down below water again. I’m glad to have taken a few breaths today, even though it wasn’t anywhere near any kind of ideal day.