I was diagnosed about 15 years ago. I have usually been able to manage my symptoms ok...question I have is...this past year I have had some incredibly stressful things happen to me. Can this kind of emotional trauma cause your fibro or chronic pain to be amplified...like thowing gas on a fire???

In a word....yes.
The pain can fluctuate to almost 1 kind of day to an 8 in a matter of days. Especially when you are stressed and your brain tells your muscles to tighten up AKA back to status quo.
I hope you are feeling better today.

I haven't been awake long enough to know how I feel...I have had a hard time feeling like I get enough rest. When ever I lay down to watch tv or take a break I'm asleep.

My pain gets worse as the day goes on and usually by the time I go to bed I'm almost in tears.

Hopefully today will be better...I'm trying to have a possitive attitude...

Oh Tam~~ I feel your pain, literally. I just came from 72 degrees on Sun am to a Winter storm Sun pm. My body is a regular barometer.

I am having big time Fibro issues right now. Weather change, stress, overdoing it, can all make me feel worse. Hope you get some rest and feel better soon.

take care.

Thanks Maryann...I can feel a storm as it comes from Oregon and we have had a front come through every other day dropping a lot of snow. Wind is something that really puts me down...

My Rheumy told me to move to Arizona. The dampness and cold really do a number on me. It also kicks my fatigue into high gear.

But who can take the heat in Arizona...

Ditto to all the above!
Its rough living in an area that changes weather so often.
If it would just say one way, I think I would be happier.

Oh, absolutely, ((((((Tammy)))))),

I've had fibro for almost 18 years.

I react to the weather. I react to lack of sleep A LOT. I react to when I'm sick with something else. Like you, the stress is a BIG ONE, too.

I've learned over these past almost two decades, that when I'm in a bad flair, everything -- EVERYTHING -- else has to go by the wayside. Stay in bed. Have the pizza joints cook for me. No housework. No dishes. No laundry. No cooking. No socializing. No nothing. Sleep and rest and heal.

It's a heck of a way to live isn't it I wish this country had spent some of the money that it's wasted pimping weapons and producing wars instead on things like fibro and chronic fatigue syndrome -- those diseases that kill so much productivity in this country and (I think) are a real warning that the environment is seriously tanking in this country. I believe fibro and chronic fatigue sufferers are the early warning system.

It's hard to live with a disease that requires you to sleep so much. Hope you feel better SOON.

Barb

Barb, thank you so much for your post...you to Maryann...

This past July my Son got married on the great 07/07/07. He and his wife went to Oregon on their honeymoon and while there they stayed with one of my nieces. Four days after they got back my nieces husband put a big gun to his head and ended it while on speaker phone talking to my son and his wife. We went out for the funeral. After we got back my sons wife left him to live with my neice the widow...crazy...now my son is going through a divorce. His wife had a little girl...not his but she did call him Daddy and me Grammy...it sucks and hurts.

Sorry about being so long but I think my pain still has a lot to do with that stress...