Saturday 2 June 2018

The intensity of pain during menstruation can be insane!!!  Such as the feeling of hot pokers being jammed in to your low back.  Just the visual that comment creates can certainly sum up the reality of what if feels like!  Any one with me?  

I know that I've always had a very painful menstruation, however I knew many people growing up who did but I didn't actually realise until these later years that mine or anyone with fibro, does not have just 'the regular dysmenorrhoea', it is full force, brutal and 100x worse than the average... why is this?  I have looked into it and all I can see or read or take note of is that it 'just is'... because we feel pain on a higher level, but I actually feel like my spine flairs, and the area around my low back seems to be screaming out in pain.  The good news is that Tramadol does seem to take the edge off, a heat pad seems to make it feel slightly better, anti-inflammatories on top of this may help improve it but overall, it just hurts like F--K!!!!!!

So I guess it means that I wander about in a zombie like state for 4 or 5 days... hurting when I bend, hurting when I lay in bed at night, hurting when I'm smiling, hurting when I'm just living my life... something I guess those with FMS just 'do', on a regular basis.  God, we are a special group of people aren't we?  I think we are.  I think you are!  Brave as they come, to face each day, week, month and years with a brave face, and a fighting attitude... how great we are!  Keep your chin up, remember there are others out there fighting the same battle and we aren't alone in this big bad fibro world.

Go well.