- Has anyone experienced fatigue out of nowhere? Like you are fine and then fighting to keep your eyes open?
316 points80 comments5 d ago
- Bug Crawling Feeling? Electric Shocks?
Is it only me or does it feel like everyday you have a feeling that something is crawling on you and when you look nothing is there? It feels like lice or bedbugs, or a strand of hair on the skin....
137 points47 comments2 d ago
- Chronic Brain and Spine Processing Disorder
As an experiment, I’m going to start telling people that I have a “Chronic Brain and Spine Processing Disorder” instead of using the Fibromyalgia term to see how it lands. I’m tired of being told...
103 points36 comments6 d ago
- Pain so bad you gotta laugh
Anyone else have them 10/10 pain flares where your so in awe of a how a human body can withstand so much pain you just laugh And the pain so bad you can't even cry
97 points19 comments3 d ago
- went to pain clinic today and told yeah you're just gonna keep deteriorating
I went to an appointment I'd been waiting months for. (nhs) I was told by the head of pain management that I'm going to keep deteriorating month by month, and the only thing available to me is...
88 points124 comments1 d ago
- If being confused and in pain was a job, I'd be making at least 7 figures a year
I have no idea what I've done differently recently, but the pain and confusion is hitting hard and fast. I can hardly stay standing for more than a minute, and nothing even remotely touches my...
88 points6 comments7 d ago
- what do you do for work with fibromyalgia?
i have fibromyalgia but it’s super difficult to find a job that doesn’t flare my disorder. what do you do for work? how do you get by?
74 points161 comments2 d ago
- How are you?
Fellow Fibro Warriors: How are you all holding up with the changes in weather? How's the stiffness? Fatigue? Any wins? I want to know: how are you?
71 points122 comments6 d ago
- Wife made me a tattoo
My wife is a tattoo artist in Las Vegas and I asked her to make a tattoo that represents my fibro pain. I often feel like a bird caught in barbed wire and just get too tired from the pain to move....
67 points11 comments5 d ago
- New boss won’t accommodate me
I just need to vent because I'm really struggling. I've had fibromyalgia for over 10 years and have spent most of that time just pushing through. At least once a month, I'm so physically exhausted...
65 points15 comments4 d ago