This past week I’ve been really struggling with my fibromyalgia due to the weather starting to change from summer into fall. I think everyone feels this to a certain extent, we start coming down with colds and it’s getting dark earlier. We all feel tired and want to nap and eat. I always feel like a bear getting ready to hibernate.
It doesn’t seem to matter how much sleep I get, I wake up feeling completely exhausted. I don’t mean the type of tired that starts to go away 10 or 15 minutes after you’ve got up, I mean the type of tired that 4 hours later you are still barely able to form a sentence. I wake up and on my way to my first class I am already calculating home many hours until I can either go back to bed, or whether I will have time for a nap.
The answers this morning were 14 hours – and no.
At home I walk around in a exhausted tired stuper, willing myself to stay awake when I do sit down to relax here and there because I know I don’t have time for a rest. I know that I can sleep in tomorrow morning so right now I’m living for that. I’ve got 2 Zumba classes to teach yet today, a basement floor I need to put another coat of paint on, and a long list of other things that need to be done before the weekend.
Last night about 20 minutes before I had to leave for my evening classes I almost fell asleep on the couch.
My body hurts. My hips ache, my sternum hurts, my lats and traps are killing me but not from exercise, it’s all stupid old fibromyalgia.
I’ve been using my Trigger Point Therapy Ultimate 6 Kit which helps in the long run but at the time hurts so badly it makes me cry. I’ve been trying to get lots of sleep, but as usal the irony of having Fibromyalgia is I often suffer from insomnia even though I’m so tired I can barely even think straight.
I think I would be quite happy if I could stay in bed sleeping or resting for about a week.
Thankfully, once my body adjusts to the weather I should be back to {my} normal and I’m really hoping that won’t take much longer as I have a really busy couple weeks ahead of me and it would be nice not to be a walking zombie.
For now, I have 28 minutes to relax before I have to start getting things ready for the second half of my work day. I think it’s time for some hot chocolate.
So let this be a reminder to you whether you have a chronic condition/illness or are perfectly healthy. As the seasons change we are all a bit more suseptible to illness, so take a little extra care of yourself <3
Jenna says
So sorry to hear of your struggle!!! A friend of mine also has your condition, and I see her pain daily! She also says the seasonal changes are the worst. U are in my prayers! Spa love!
Suzi says
Thanks 🙂 Generally speaking I do very well (and hide it pretty well when i’m not!) but since I rarely talk about it I think people sometimes forget I have the condition. Wishing your friend well as we get through this seasonal change!
I have a love/hate relationship with Spring and Fall. I love the renewal, everything waking up, that Spring inspires, and the crisp temperatures as we come into Fall. I hate, absolutely hate, how both those seasons kick the heck out of my Fybromyalgia. I certainly sympathize with what your going thru.
Exactly! Fall is really my favorite season which stinks, considering how it makes me feel.
The worst is the time change. Thankfully I find the change in the fall easier to take than the one in the spring!
Sorry to hear about everything you have to deal with. I am new to your blog in the past month but love it!
Thank you!
I am so sorry that its so rough for your right now. Back to school time in August really throws me off as my summer school schedule is much different, but other than that I am pretty lucky that none of the other changes affect me too much.
It’s annoying but I deal with it, I’m just trying to be more “real” about my struggles. People seem to think that when I say I have my fibromyalgia under control that means I have no symptoms, which isn’t the case, I just manage them better than most.