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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Yes Gma, lists help. So do electronic reminders. I have my calendar at work remind me of things that I need to do. I also set my cell phone up with reminders. I have a few plants in my house. I see them every day. I look at them and think, I need to water them. I go into the kitchen to get water and get sidetracked doing something else. AND the plants get forgotten. I bought those little globes that they show on TV and they have saved my plants from premature death. Now if I can only remember to refill the globes. . . . . .

I have found that stretching in the bed before I get up helps some. There are simple stretches that you can do right there before you get up. It doesn't take very long either. And, before, I do that I just stretch out like I was a cat. It does make a difference for me. It doesn't make the ache go away but it does help to stretch the muscles gently. sssss to my friends.

Mistiis, stretching is a good suggestion I havne't tried. I wake and don't want to move because then the pain starts. The past 6 months has been the worst I have had with my fibro...don't know what to do...