JoJoisms

Adventures in Fibro

Written By: JoJoisms - Oct• 12•13

rutabagaI have Fibromyalgia which means I have pain in various points on my body which travel to other areas without warning or notice.  Along with that I also have  strange feelings that aren’t pain, but are rather funny.

Almost every morning, I have a painful and stiff neck, shoulders and certain parts of my legs.  Sometimes this is accompanied by spots of pain in other areas about as big as a pencil eraser that travel from place to place and time to time.  In fact, it changes so often, when someone asks, I have to play “Find the BooBoo” because I’m not always sure where it will end up at that moment.

Along with headaches and pinpoint traveling pains, I have other odd sensations that baffle the mind and giggle the heart.  Periodically, I feel like drops of water are dripping on my leg.  Other times I feel like something is crawling on me, but when I look down or feel that spot, nothing is there.  It’s not constant, but it happens enough to where I’m often surprised to find something actually crawling on me!  lol

As my son says, “I don’t like pain; it hurts me!”  But I also don’t like the weird phantom sensations because they make you question your sanity.

Tune in later on this blog as I recount smelling smoke that isn’t there.  It’s a smokin’ story!  LOL

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2 Comments

  1. Carla says:

    Those moving sensations are called neuralgia, i.e. nerve pain. It’s a hoot! I’m used to most of mine, but the ones that I can’t stand are the ones when I feel like somebody lit fires all over me that I can’t put out. UGH I smell smoke, too. Not crazy about that one, but not quite as bad as the feeling like matches are burning all over me.

  2. JoJoisms says:

    No matches here, but the pain has been increasing lately.