[GmaSue]

I was just empathizing with a friend about how hard mornigs are-and decided to post about it.

Oh yes, mornings...Mornings are a time where I have to start over from scratch, both physically and mentally. I have been finding out there is a big difference, though, if I prepare for it the night before. I like to try to forget what it is going to be like when I wake up-but I am going to try to start remembering on purpose and laying stuff out the night before. My medicine-a bottle of water-have a CD or playlist ready to play-clothes-a to do list of very simple things I have written the night before. The times I have done that it really helps to keep me from getting "stuck" where it can take hours to get up enough courage to move and do.

Mornings. They come 356 times a year. That's a lot of mornings!

Anybody have some stategies they use to face the morning monster?

[GmaSue]

I'm going to reply to my own post! ROFL!

I doubt very much, Sue, whether that "really helps" as you claim-maybe "helps a little" would be a better way of putting it.

[BlueMajo]

Yeah sue...

For me is difficult (sometimes I even hate to !) to open my eyes every morning... that mean, "here comes another day..."

In the past few months, what I have done, and has helped me A LOT to have better days and to "suffer" less in the mornings, is listening to music right after I open my eyes....

After 4 or 5 songs, I come here... then, have breakfast... then, shower... and suddenly, wow, it is not morning anymore

Hope that helps.

[sabimax]

although late night and then mornings are my worst for stiffness and pain!! undx here..

but I am a morning person, I get up and half asleep creep down stairs in pain usually..and just get ready and go..by time at work I am stretched out enough to be in less pain..and have to do what I have to do...

when home on day off, I do find it hard to get going on anything around here lol

guess my coping is I have to go to work to pay the bills so I gotta get up and go no matter the pain..hahahaha

hugsssss, good thread idea, sarah

[Doody]

Sarah, me too. I have to get up and go bright and early. Some days the stiffness wears off in about an hour or 2 after getting to work. This week I am having those days where I hurt all day long. And I am SO sick of it.

Yes, I need lists, bad, but I don't do them. It's getting me to do anything at all that is the problem, lol.

I'm amazed I've worked for 23 years in the same place as difficult as it is for me to remember things let alone deal a busy job.

Aargh, tonight I'm going straight home, soak in a hot bath, put on my jammies and rest, period!

But ((Gma)) yes, lists ARE helpful. Good on you for doing those! I really really need to.

[tamiloo]

Just wanted to share...good way to let family and friends know what you are going through...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941kVoQh9_s

[Doody]

((Ms. Loo)) Thanks for that link! Watched a few other fibro videos there and wow. Well we're not alone.

And I thought I was the only one who sometimes can't even stand the feel of a sheet on my body.

[BlueMajo]

Originally Posted by Doody

And I thought I was the only one who sometimes can't even stand the feel of a sheet on my body.

I know !!!! Do you know what I cant stand ? people touching my face !!!! Urgh...... I feel sorry because that makes me mad and have to tell people to leave me, but they usually think Im crazy (and Im sure Im a bit... hehe)

[GmaSue]

That was a good video, thanks for sharing it.

You now, I feel so sorry for little children that have this-I am not sure there is much more diagnosis or screening for it than when I was growing up in the 50's and they told me I was having "growing pains". I think of all of the kids sitting at school desks, hurting too bad to be in school, and wonder how many school nurses know much about Fibromyalgia. or Pediatricians, for that matter...

And that Lyrica commercial on TV almost makes it worse by talking about aching muscles-I wish that was all there was to Fibro-that would be bearable.

[christydiggs]

Originally Posted by GmaSue

I'm going to reply to my own post! ROFL!

I doubt very much, Sue, whether that "really helps" as you claim-maybe "helps a little" would be a better way of putting it.

I agree, it helps a tiny, been doing that for a long time now but every little bit counts.