Saturday, January 21, 2012

*insert catchy title that belies my true feelings of dismay*

I’ve whined on here about my health before. I just have something to add.

I have fibromyalgia.

I went to the doctor. He tested me for lots of things (that’s the blood tests I mentioned in Leah’s allergy post). I do not have lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis or any of the other things he tested for. Whew.

Fibromyalgia has no test. It’s a diagnosis of elimination.

My mother has it. I have it.

So I hurt a lot. Just about all the time. I have only so much energy to go around. So my girls have been getting it all. Some goes to cleaning my house if I have it left.

Some days I’m fine, some days I can’t do the simplest things – like shut my garage door. That was really annoying. There’s a lot of muscle weakness.

The are lots of other symptoms but we’ll just say it’s been impeding my daily life for awhile.

I’m just over here doing the best I can… but just about everything is going to the way side except caring for my children.

That’s all.

1 comments:

Heidi said...

(((hugs))) I'm so sorry. I tend to whine a lot about a little bit of pain, so I can't imagine what it would be like to live with constant pain. I'll keep you in my prayers.