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as always, you've cheered me right up! thanks for the kind words. and don't worry, just 'cause i have fibro doesn't mean i dont' have IBS (o joy!), so i'm not going anywhere. you get to put up with me anyway!

how do i feel about this fibro stuff? well, i was tired yesterday so i didn't think about it much. but here's what i'm thinking now: no biggie. well, of course fibro is "a biggie," but i think you know what i mean. "no biggie" meaning: what does it really change? it's not like having my doctor say "you have fibromyalgia" changes anything for me. in fact, it probably makes it better in that now i have a name for it and they can start attacking the problem. (interpretation: i can start researching and telling them what they're going to do to attack the problem!

) knowing it's fibro doesn't give me more pain, or make me more tired. so.... no biggie!

you know what's funny? i've always had pain in all kinds of places. different kinds of pain: achy, stabbing, shooting, cramping, etc... and for years i haven't even bothered going to the doctor because they always tell me "there's nothing wrong." there's nothing wrong? i can't sit in a movie without my knee feeling like someone stabbed it? ah, there's nothing wrong. i have had a "crick" in my neck for 2 1/2 years that nothing fixes? there's nothing wrong. i wear heels one day, and i'm fine. i wear the same shoes 5 days later and there's lightening bolts of pain in my toe and at the bottom of my foot? there's nothing wrong! i have muscle tightness in my hips that never goes away and no kind of stretching seems to help? ah, there's nothing wrong.

so... i just always sucked it up and kept going. which i still will do, but it's nice to know that there is something wrong.

at least i know i'm not nuts or a big baby or a hypochondriac. 'cause after 20 years of hearing there's nothing wrong, you begin to wonder about your own brain! but now i can get scripts for physical therapy and so forth and maybe get some of those things taken care of even though on xray "there's nothing wrong."

so really, i'm not that stressed about the fibro. the one thing i find very frustrating, though, is these periods of brain fog ("fibrofog"). they are terribly frustrating and they really piss me off. i hate being stupid, and to me if you can't think of easy words in a conversation, forget where you put your pants and you bump into things like walls, you could be perceived as stupid! that that symptom may always be there and reoccur periodically really makes me angry. i'm hoping if i can get into a good plan for deep sleep then that won't happen often, but there are no guarantees. so i'm not too terribly upset, just not looking forward to the flares of fibrofog. otherwise, i'm my normal cheerful self!

sadly, i just got my hair color touched up, and it's not blonde. LS, you may be onto something there! but i think i'll stick with the dark brown... it suits me better. (there are some blonde hilites, so that's something at least. since i don't have "severe fibro" then i don't need to be totally blonde!

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anyway, thanks for the cheer. you all are the best!

SMOOCHES!

OH! BY THE WAY......
not only does this stupid medicine they put me on for sleep give me horrible dry mouth and make me gain weight (!) but it also--- get this! ---- it ALSO makes me constipated. I DON'T GET CONSTIPATED. this is just wrong..... ARGH!!!!!

LOL

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