As many of you know, I have fibromyalgia. The thing with this condition, is that a person can look totally fine and functional on the outside, but on the inside the body is screaming. I was diagnosed with it 10 years ago and I have been worse, and better...and more worse, and "just okay" etc. But the main thing with this is I have pain every day 24/7. It is not an exaggeration, I am truly never without pain. Mine tends to be in my shoulders, neck, upper back and head. basically, my nerve ending fire and inappropriate times and cause a consistent pain. Some days the pain is debilitating, most days it is tolerable. I have tried lots of things to "fix" this. Took muscle relaers in the beginning and truly could not function as mother of a 4 year old and 7 year old (at the time)...I owned a dance studio, that was booming with so many students...but the pain was beginning to get in my way. In the last few years, I have just basically lived with it...tried to get as much sleep as possible, keep hydrated...keep stress to a minimum (ha ha ha). recently, I have been getting more discouraged cuz the pain seems to be getting worse again...so two weeks ago tomorrow I had a Drs appointment for my cholesterol (not good by the way) and the Dr and I start talking about the fibromyalgia. He mentions Lyrica...have I tried it? he finds that some of his patients have good luck with it. So after a very lengthy discussion I decide I will try it. It will be two weeks tomorrow and can I say WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LYRICA??? Two days after I started taking it I had my first painfree...no heavy duty ibuprofen day...in YEARS! Now everyday is still not like that, but atleast half the days of these last two weeks...I have been almost painfree (maybe a twinge here and there)...that's SEVEN days of no pain. When you have lived with pain for ten years...this is amazing. I sit and wait for the pain to start and it doesn't. Today has been a "pain" day unfortunately, but it does not discourage me near as much as I have been for so long. Now, I will say that there are some side effects...one is fatigue. For me I seem to be in a pattern of having a day full of energy and then a day of pure exhaustion. Again, this doesn't seem too bad when I have had days on end of exhaustion. Some days , now, I feel like I can take on the world...AND I feel so much more creative than I have for awhile. There are some other side effects that have set in, that aren't great...but hopefully live able...dizziness, tinny mouth, constipation, a little blurry ness a couple of times. What I do worry about is that other things I have tried for Fibromyalgia have helped for awhile and then POOF they stop working...I am hoping this is not the case with this. I am NOT a medicine taker...I hate even taking my supplements, but I am feeling good about this...
Now, here is an ice cream sundae for you:
We have these glass sundae cups, that nobody ever uses...and I said to myself..."Self, how about needlefelting a pincushion in it?" and there you have it...I am going to make three more to put in my craft show coming up.
And then there is this:
What the heck? Old rusty wire...and I would show you what these little babies are, but I gave the finished one away today to a dear friend. So you shall have to wait...I will share the link as to where I got the idea also...but for now, I must get to musical rehearsal...
Dancingly, Denise
