Chronic Pain Today

Did you know how closely having fibromyalgia and having hypoglycemia are linked? I didn’t for years until I began to have it. Hypoglycemia is a low blood sugar, this can result in fatigue, irritability, dizziness, the fog that is associated with fibro, also anxiety and other symptoms. Checking your blood sugar regularly should be foremost on your mind, especially after a big carby meal. A hypoglycemic body is going to over produce insulin and will tank your blood sugar numbers resulting in the symptoms that will really wreck havoc with your fibro.

If you have fibro and your doctor hasn’t said anything to you about hypoglycemia, bring it up to them. Tell them you’d like to test your blood sugar for a month or so and log it in a manual to be looked over. And also remember, just because you don’t have hypoglycemia in January, doesn’t mean you won’t have it come that December. Keep a diligent eye on you and how you are feeling, and remember the cost of the test strips are covered under insurance usually. I made sure the doc wrote my script out for the ones that I could get the cheapest, and its been a real godsend to me ever since.

Be well and happy and healthy dear readers

I’ve been lax in blogging for a week or more. I’ve not been very “with it” due to fibro fog and the lovely hypoglycemia hitting me hard lately. I’m sore, I’m tired, and I’m just not stringing sentences together very well. But I wanted to bring up a point. Through this I’m pushed myself to do something. I was frustrated when my spelling tanked, when punctuation was a chore, and when my fingers just didn’t want to type what my head was saying. I erased a lot. I took breaks, a lot. And I was frustrated to the core, well….. a lot.

Stick with it, even when you want to just curl up with a blanket and stop functioning till it gets better. Pushing through it can show you that with perserverance you can still do things. There is no can’t, it is just a “can with difficulty” which beats can’t’s arse every day;)

I hope that you and yours are having a good day, with as little pain as possible. Its cold, and spring is still a distant horizon. But we will get through this gray sky and this bitter cold together.

work is coming along well, flowing good again, back in the groove all is well. Most of the aches and pains are getting better, and the medical stuff is sorting itself out into a better groove.  On the Karma/Wellbeing front: I got a snazzy new guitar and I just love it. Same person that is doing the work and the teaching of this old dog a new trick has a RC blog on today too, so go by and check him out.

 My chiropractor came back and I saw him yesterday. Did a good adjustment and a little bit of soft tissue work on the pressure points, and although I’m sore today from it, I know that I’ll get weeks of relief from it.

Stress is still an issue, I’m caught between worrying too much about some things and worrying too little about others. Never seem to be that lovely middle ground in there. But hopefully soon.

I hope that all my readers are well and happy. Don’t forget to leave me a comment and just tell me hi;)

On PodNova there is a very good podcast on Phantom Pains: Treatment and Relief of Chronic Pain. Many times we know what is causing out pain, sometimes we don’t but we can still see the area or know its there. For those that are suffering from chronic pain because of phantoms it is a different story. Too many times, a patient will lose a limb and there will still be pain. They are looking into the effects of a possible phantom organ link as well (where an organ causing pain prior to surgery is removed and yet can continue to pump out pain responses even after removal).

 I can understand the phantom organ aspect. I had my gallbladder removed two Februarys ago and there are times when I swear that is still the pain that I’m feeling. It is a very surreal state to be in, but then I tell myself that its only psychosomatic and that I’m not really feeling it since it isn’t even there. Little comfort but its all I have to go on at the moment.

Do you or someone you know have phantom pains, either limb or organ? I’d love to hear about it, please post in the comment section if you do. And have a happy and healthy, pain free day dear readers.

Many times those of us with chronic pain limit ourselves in what we believe we can accomplish. “Why I can’t do that, I’ve <chronic pain ailment>”. It is simple to not extend ourselves to further what we ourselves believe that we can be. This president’s day I’m reminded that one of the best loved and best respected president’s that we’ve ever had took little retreats to Warm Springs, GA so that his chronic pain affliction could be tamed for a little while longer. The polio that took Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have slowed his step, but not his mind or his heart. Today, let that be a reminder that nothing can really step in the way of your dreams, but yourself.

This President’s Day, may an affirmation that you are wonderful, you are powerful, and you can move mountains. Say it enough times that you yourself begin to believe it, and then say it again.