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The Good With The Bad

I’m having an incredibly bad fibro day. The pain started yesterday evening and just kept increasing until everything hurt. I do mean everything. Even my butt cheek muscles seem to be screaming out in pain. Last night I couldn’t even pet my poor dog because just the task of lifting up my arm to make the petting motion was agony.

And I didn’t sleep well at all last night. The Flexeril didn’t appear to do any muscle relaxing and the Melatonin didn’t make me sleepy enough to be able to sleep through the pain. I couldn’t find a comfortable position because everywhere hurt and no matter which way I tried to lay on the bed, this or that limb or muscle group complained angrily.

So, I’m cranky today and I don’t feel like being on a diet or sticking to my 12oz of caffeine or drinking 24oz of water. I certainly don’t feel like dealing with anyone at work, but I have a Vendor coming on site today who is supposed to finally fix what’s been broken for a month — everyday it’s another stupidity with those guys. I’ve already told the Project Manager that I don’t feel well and I’m cranky; he said it was o.k. to take it out on the Vendor as long as I’m nice to the Users (ie. our in-house customers). I have no problem with that.

The good news is that I’ve managed to drop 2 lbs in the last two weeks following my 5 days of Diet2Go and two days of my own healthy eating. I think that’s a pretty healthy weight loss rate. So far I’ve managed to keep my old obsession with the scale in check and I’ve only gotten on the scale about every other morning rather than the 3 or 4 times a day that I used to do when I “dieted”.

Plus, like I said, for over a week now, I’ve only had 12oz of caffeine a day, except for 1 day when I had a migraine and then it was only 16oz. I’ve been trying to drink 24oz of water every day for the last week but have only been successful for about half the days. My Living Well class has suggested I give myself “permission” to add those Crystal Light To-Go packs to my water to help make it easier to drink. I may try it because I have a real mental block about it; I almost would rather go thirsty.

I had wanted to go to Old Navy this afternoon and look at their sweater collection because I like the ones in their latest commercials, but I’ve decided that the fibro is just too bad today and that I should really clean out my sweater closet and regular closet first and make that a project for this weekend and the new sweaters a reward. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better fibro day so I can get the project done as well as some neglected house-cleaning. I’m starting to be too embarrassed to have the cats and dog see it.

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Published:: 05.10.07 / 12pm

Category:: Health, Life

Social Tags:: caffeine • Crystal Light • diet • Diet2Go • fibromyalgia • Flexeril • healthy eating • house-cleaning • melatonin • Old Navy • water

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Lulu 05.10.07 / 10pm

Oh, I do hope that you feel better soon!

Try the Green Tea add-ins from Lipton. It’s not too sweet like the other flavors…just a little bit of flavor. I think it’s the best out of all of them.

I do love those Old Navy commercials that advertise the new sweaters! However, I bought three new ones at TJMaxx earlier this week, so I better stay away from that place.

Wacky Mommy 05.10.07 / 11pm

I do want you to feel better soon. Sending good thoughts from Portland, Ore.

J. Lynne 08.10.07 / 11am

Thanks, gals! I feel better than I did today. Though I got nothing that I wanted to done over the weekend.

I can’t do Green Tea because of the caffeine, I’m sorry to say.

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