"Paint" word picture that describes your pain. For instance, right now mine is:
A very dark sludgey grey, spotted here & there with points of blackish red. At its edges it is a hot, hot & deep red.
Hope to hear from youse guys
Suz
My pain is red and bright white. The colors pulsate, like flashes of light, sometimes deep crimson, then shooting flashes of white almost like lightning.
My depression is midnight navy to black. Thick, deep colors, like oil paint, endless bold color.
Youse guys? You sound like my grandma, who used to make fun of us when we said y’all.
Wha in NY do you live? I bet the winters are a bitch. Not something I could handle.
My pain now is a purplish grey over most of my body, a deep ache like I am one big bruise. And it is red in my ribs, like I have a hot poker sticking me there. Bleh! But, you know the saying, the show must go on. So, while I am resting now after a relatively busy day, tomorrow is a new day and I will get up and get what I have to do done. And I might even give my precious Tulip a bath before the couple of days of balmy weather we are having disappears.
Hey y'all the winters are worse than your summers (wherever you are?). I'm on Long Island, now, but I'm not really a "Lung Eyelander". I grew up in Westchester Cty. NY and Lakeville, CT. :-) S.
SO VIVID.
From reading your other posts I'm not surprised that you describe your pain as being like lightning and all your colors as bold & deep. - for an FMSer you strike me as pretty energised.
Hope you have an aqua night.
S
I'm an artist, so I just can't help myself! LOL! I'm afraid if I succumb to the pain, I would be in bed everyday. I figure it hurts either way. I try to stay as active as possible, after my diagnosis, my doc gave me the whole shpeal about exercising, blah, blah, blah, & I thought, what a JERK, I feel like I can't even walk and HE WANTS ME TO RUN??? Well, I'm not running, but I find the more active I am, the better I feel. I believe in the serotonin release theory 100%. I can't say that I'm EVER pain free, but I can keep my mind & body busy, it helps!
Aqua would be wonderful, thanks!
I am in south Alabama, or LA (lower Alabama) as the locals call it. We are about 90 miles north of Panama City Beach to the south (the Florida border is 12 miles from us) and about 10 miles from the Georgia line to the east. So, yep, our summers get pretty hot but nothing compared to Houston where I lived for 25 years. The coldest place I have ever lived is Atlanta, Georgia. But it is funny what you become accustomed to. My sister lives in St. Croix, USVI, and when she visited here after my surgery in October, the poor girl was freezing to death and it was only in the 50s and 60s. Compared to year around temps of 78-88 or thereabouts, I guess it is freezing. So youse guys stay warm up there!
H, Colleen, I know exactly what you mean. My doc (a new rheumy) told me just last week that if I did yoga for 45 minutes a day and swam 5 or more days a week, then I would be able to get off all my meds and run a marathon some day. My question to her is: why the hell would I ever want to run a marathon? LOL. I ran cross country and track for years until my knees and three surgeries on them told me"no more"!. I walk just about every day- 1.3 or 2.5 miles. She told me that didn’t count cuz I told her that I walk WITH my dog every day and she said that is something I have to do and not exercise. Huh? I did buy a yoga DVD and started doing that. I will definitely have to slowly I free on that one. It is HARD and I have the beginners DVD. I don’t even want to think about what the intermediate and advanced are like. I also was told Pilates are good by someone on this site, Laura flora maybe? For some reason my rheumy told me not Pilates, yoga. I think I will do the yoga for a while and then try Pilates maybe to kind of vary my day. But I am enjoying the yoga, especially the end of the workout with the relaxation/meditation stuff. BTW, I told her I was not going to swim for exercise. She asked me why and I staid hat I did it for many years, some of those years against my wishes, and I hate it. She told me to go at least twice a week. I didn’t argue with her. I could go back in two months and tell her I did it but I am not a very good liar. LOL
I am in pain, I am always in pain to some degree. But walking and yoga are not going to make me any worse and I already hurt so why not do something to help my health? And it does help the pain for a while although it causes other pains (I am sore as hell from the yoga). So, do or die. Move or stop. Those are the choices, amongst others. I choose to move and to do.
Have a great night.
Hugs, MB