Forgotten but evidently not gone away
Mar. 23rd, 2010 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seticatI forgot just how painful a fibromyalgia flare can be. I'm one of those really lucky folks who have very few severe problems with it. In fact, a VA doc found it when I was a test subject for a project they were doing a lot of years ago. [Discovery = long story and not necessary here.] But over the last 10 years since I've actually had the diagnosis, I've had very few times I've felt miserable from it. It usually shows itself as back and neck pain and I just tough through it with OTC anti-inflammatories. But today, I've got a pair of knees that hurt from the middle of my thighs to midway down to the middle of my shins and my back and neck are cranky achy, so I'm guessing it's a flare.
Which would actually be okay. Better that than some form of nasty that it could be. So I'll deal and see what happens. If it doesn't start to clear in a day or so, I'll contact my VA doc and we'll see what we can do because right now it feels as if my knees are on fire.
But this just puts the SUX! on my walking/biking get-in-shape program. Right now there's no way I'm going to go to a local track and try to walk steady for 15".
Addenda: Just got back from the Wall-of-Marts and they had a combo bottle of glucosamine/chondrotin/SMS compound with 2000 iu Vit D in it - 132 tabs for $17 [take 2 x day]. The Wally Worker there said is was missmarked in price [supposed to be $23.00], but since it was on the shelf for that, that's what she charged me.
Wal-Mart and my knees for the win! Wish I had more cash flow until the end of the month to have picked up the other bottle on the shelf, but it's $15 left in the bank until the 1st.
Which would actually be okay. Better that than some form of nasty that it could be. So I'll deal and see what happens. If it doesn't start to clear in a day or so, I'll contact my VA doc and we'll see what we can do because right now it feels as if my knees are on fire.
But this just puts the SUX! on my walking/biking get-in-shape program. Right now there's no way I'm going to go to a local track and try to walk steady for 15".
Addenda: Just got back from the Wall-of-Marts and they had a combo bottle of glucosamine/chondrotin/SMS compound with 2000 iu Vit D in it - 132 tabs for $17 [take 2 x day]. The Wally Worker there said is was missmarked in price [supposed to be $23.00], but since it was on the shelf for that, that's what she charged me.
Wal-Mart and my knees for the win! Wish I had more cash flow until the end of the month to have picked up the other bottle on the shelf, but it's $15 left in the bank until the 1st.
