{"id":1139,"date":"2018-08-07T00:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2018-08-07T00:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:59:01","slug":"when-the-storms-of-a-fibromyalgia-flare-occur-what-do-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"When the storms of a Fibromyalgia flare occur, what do you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the storms of a Fibromyalgia flare occur, what do you do?…<\/h4>\n

What can I say? Sadly, today has been a bad day for me. I felt the flare coming on yesterday, although I tried to ignore the symptoms.\u00a0I had had two consecutive nights of being woken up with all the joint pains, but last night it was my feet that deprived me of a sweet slumber. Had I done something to cause this aggravating pain? No. It’s just par for the course when you have Fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n

Fibromyalgia is that never-know-how-you-will-feel-day-to-day condition that will literally knock you off your feet.<\/p>\n

Today, I’ve been knocked off.<\/h4>\n

I awoke with my usual “road kill” feeling, but the gnawing feeling deep inside my joints told me what was looming ahead of me. (Just as the dark clouds of a distant monsoon warns of the storm ahead, so does the deep-seeded pains of the joints of a Fibro sufferer to an impending flare.) My road-kill, burning, shooting, constant jointy pains zeroed in on me like a rabid bat heading for water.<\/p>\n

I tried to keep moving…<\/p>\n

I tried not to give in…<\/p>\n

I even tried to reorganized our vast library collection with my daughters in the attempt to feel productive.<\/p>\n

However, by lunch I was spent and so worn out I could barely eat my tuna on crackers. Boy, that recliner looks comfy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Once I adjusted myself in the chair, I asked my daughter to try to help rub out my pain. (Now, sometimes this works to alleviate or ease the deeper pains and other times I feel too battered and bruised and the slightest touch sends me to the roof! Today it was a combination. My feet and joints feel painfully arthritic, but the rest of my body feels like my skin is burning and bruised.)<\/p>\n

So, here I sit…in much pain…feeling these electric-like zaps hit hip joints, trying to be somewhat productive by writing this. I am listening to a daughter read aloud to her younger sisters.<\/p>\n

I guess it is just “one of those<\/em> days”…<\/a><\/h4>\n

And guess what…? That is okay. Not everyday of a Fibro sufferer will be productive.<\/p>\n

Hey, just getting out of bed can be pretty productive, right?<\/p>\n

I guess I should be proud of doing more than that today!<\/p>\n

God bless and extremely gentle hugs!<\/p>\n

~The Fibro Momma of Ten\"\"<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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