Nov 07 2008
Feeling Older than You are from Fibro?
I was reading an article (http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/47071/fibromyalgia?ic=6042 ) on how fibro can make you feel much older than you are and it got me thinking, do you feel older than you are because of your chronic pain? I know I do. It is like my body is aging three or more years for every one of other people. I’m wondering if there will be a plateau of symptoms and pain, or if that increase will keep continuing. What do you think? Do you think that chronic pain just keeps increasing as you age? Or do you think that you can reach a plateau and that symptoms and pain will just stay at that threshold?
I’m thinking that eventually there has to be a stopping point, or at least a point where it doesn’t feel any worse. (Like for me there is a cold stopping point. 20 degrees feels just as cold as 0 to me, there is that stopping point of “ok, its cold enough”.)
I welcome any and all comments on this ponderment.
Hi Tina! Welcome back! It’s great to read your posts again. I recently wrote on Fighting Fatigue.org about this and I know that I definitely feel older. I believe that Fibromyalgia physically makes parts of our bodies function older as well. For example, I have had back problems since I was 18. I was told when I was in my early twenties that I had the back of a 50 year old. I’m now 39 and was just recently told after another MRI that I have the back of someone who is in her sixties. How depressing is that? I think the chronic pain can make you look older as well. My husband says I look younger than my age but when I look into my eyes I see the eyes of an old woman because of all of the pain and suffering from over the years.