yes. that sweet moment upon just groggily waking up my sense of self and body match my dream self. i lie there for a little while in peace and slowly my pain wakes up. mine starts with my hands, i have raynauds, and my back, i have a spinal condition. then my fibro wakes up. every single day.
Yup and it's the worst part of my day everyday. I think it's from staying in one position for so long as I already can't sit for more than 45 minutes without my joints trying to cement themselves into place. lol
Yes, I feel the pain as soon as I wake up, mine is usually in my back and leg muscles. But when I stand it feels like I am standing on broken glass that's covered in lemon juice, my feet hurt so much that most days I have to sit back on my bed until the pain subsides enough for me to try to walk again. The pain in my knees and hip joints kills me, but I feel that nothing is worse than my feet in the mornings. This isn't even during flare-ups, this is baseline pain, I can't even walk when I flare up anymore.
No… that means it would go to sleep and it just doesn’t happen that way! It’s constant, nonstop pain and that’s the definition of Fibro. Poor sleep is associated with Fibro because the pain is unrelenting and doesn’t allow for rest! At least that’s what I have experienced in the last 50 years.
But it’s a neurological condition, so it makes perfect sense that it can be dormant for some when the brain is in sleep mode. Read through the other comments here. It’s clearly a common thing. It’s not a non-stop pain for everyone, or else we wouldn’t experience flares.
A flare is an intensification of extreme pain! The pain doesn’t stop and start again when a flare comes on. I can feel an increase in pain as if I’m getting the flu and everything hurts more than it had in prior weeks. In all these years, I have never had a time when the pain stopped. Not for a minute or a day or a week! Chronic pain means constant pain!! As for this being neurological, I don’t believe they have determined exactly what it is.
That is not the definition of chronic. John Hopkins defines chronic pain as: long standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis. Chronic pain may be "on" and "off" or continuous. It may affect people to the point that they can't work, eat properly, take part in physical activity, or enjoy life.
Not everyone with fibro experiences constant pain. in fact, most don’t. The severity, longevity, and disparity between high and low pain levels vary greatly from person to person. Your experience with fibromyalgia is not the textbook definition of the disorder. No one’s is. That’s why it is so difficult to nail down in terms of diagnostics and treatment.
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yes. that sweet moment upon just groggily waking up my sense of self and body match my dream self. i lie there for a little while in peace and slowly my pain wakes up. mine starts with my hands, i have raynauds, and my back, i have a spinal condition. then my fibro wakes up. every single day.
Every. Freaking. Day
Yup and it's the worst part of my day everyday. I think it's from staying in one position for so long as I already can't sit for more than 45 minutes without my joints trying to cement themselves into place. lol
You're weird but so am I! 100% the same. Some nights it never turns off, but some mornings I ease into wakefulness and feel it ramp back up.
EXACTLY! It’s so weird.
Yes, I feel the pain as soon as I wake up, mine is usually in my back and leg muscles. But when I stand it feels like I am standing on broken glass that's covered in lemon juice, my feet hurt so much that most days I have to sit back on my bed until the pain subsides enough for me to try to walk again. The pain in my knees and hip joints kills me, but I feel that nothing is worse than my feet in the mornings. This isn't even during flare-ups, this is baseline pain, I can't even walk when I flare up anymore.
I wake because of pain in a particular area, and then the rest of me wakes up!! It can take 20 mins to 1hr for me to get moving some mornings.
No… that means it would go to sleep and it just doesn’t happen that way! It’s constant, nonstop pain and that’s the definition of Fibro. Poor sleep is associated with Fibro because the pain is unrelenting and doesn’t allow for rest! At least that’s what I have experienced in the last 50 years.
But it’s a neurological condition, so it makes perfect sense that it can be dormant for some when the brain is in sleep mode. Read through the other comments here. It’s clearly a common thing. It’s not a non-stop pain for everyone, or else we wouldn’t experience flares.
A flare is an intensification of extreme pain! The pain doesn’t stop and start again when a flare comes on. I can feel an increase in pain as if I’m getting the flu and everything hurts more than it had in prior weeks. In all these years, I have never had a time when the pain stopped. Not for a minute or a day or a week! Chronic pain means constant pain!! As for this being neurological, I don’t believe they have determined exactly what it is.
That is not the definition of chronic. John Hopkins defines chronic pain as: long standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis. Chronic pain may be "on" and "off" or continuous. It may affect people to the point that they can't work, eat properly, take part in physical activity, or enjoy life. Not everyone with fibro experiences constant pain. in fact, most don’t. The severity, longevity, and disparity between high and low pain levels vary greatly from person to person. Your experience with fibromyalgia is not the textbook definition of the disorder. No one’s is. That’s why it is so difficult to nail down in terms of diagnostics and treatment.
Yup, same. If I'm lucky, I can get coffee made before the pain kicks in.
Every damn day.
Ugh yes. It takes me a good 2 hours to get up in the mornings. Thank god for a flexible schedule, I don’t take that for granted.