{"id":845,"date":"2018-01-20T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefibrolupusbutterf2647.live-website.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2018-01-20T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T20:46:51","slug":"fibromyalgia-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Fibromyalgia and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fibromyalgia and driving don&#8217;t go hand-in-hand, at least for me. My experiences have always been less than agreeable. Even going shopping or to the city for a doctor&#8217;s appointment, wreak havoc on my body.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yesterday,\u00a0 I had to drive over an hour to take one if my sons to a doctor&#8217;s appointment in the city. I scheduled my day around it and planned to stop at a few local stores. In the past this has always been a bad decision and yesterday was no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I am limited to getting in and out of my vehicle to no more than 3 times per outing. By the time we left the city and then stopped at the last store closer to home, I had to lift my right leg into the passenger side and asked my son to drive the rest of the way home as my knee and hip had locked up and were throbbing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">When I awoke this morning, my body let me know that it was not happy (is it ever, anymore?). But what is worse is the hazy feeling in my head which is usually indicative of a pending migraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">These are regular occurrences in my Fibro life. I just have to plan a down day after a travel day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But what if the &#8220;schedule&#8221; won&#8217;t allow for a down day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sometimes that happens and\u00a0today is one if them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">My husband has a work dinner party that we must attend this afternoon.\u00a0 Looks like I&#8217;ll be resting until then. My body won&#8217;t let me do otherwise, even if I tried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I guess the ironing and mending will have to wait for another day&#8230;which my hands could not do, anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">That 24-48 hour Fibro delay thing always holds true and by tomorrow I will be worse off than I am today. And driving is especially hard with sitting upright and it is also hard on my hands with holding the steering wheel. *sigh*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s just the way life is these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So, happy Saturday to you and gentle hugs!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Fibro Momma of Ten<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibromyalgia and driving don&#8217;t go hand-in-hand, at least for me. My experiences have always been less than agreeable. Even going shopping or to the city for a doctor&#8217;s appointment, wreak havoc on my body. Yesterday,\u00a0 I had to drive over an hour to take one if my sons to a doctor&#8217;s appointment in the city.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fibromyalgia and Driving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fibromyalgia-pain","tag-fibromyagia","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZH8C-dD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1756,"url":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1756","url_meta":{"origin":845,"position":0},"title":"Recovering from a Routine Change is Rough when you have Fibromyalgia and\/or Lupus","author":"Fibro Momma of 10","date":"April 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Keeping a routine is crucial when you suffer from Lupus and Fibromyalgia. 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