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Aug. 10th, 2021 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckApparently changing our AC setting from 76F to 77F makes my pain levels and my ability to sleep much, much worse. I nudged the thermostat about nine days ago and took it back down again Sunday night when I realized that I felt a bit better every time the AC kicked on. Also, I wanted to stand under the shower as cold as I could take it and never come out because the cold helps my joint aches.
Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night were all the sort of sleep where I woke every 15-30 minutes because I hurt and needed to change position. Naproxen and Tylenol didn't help, and Sunday was awful. I had trouble getting too and from the bathroom due to the pain.
Monday, I felt vastly better. I had had a decent night's sleep, and I'd gone from almost a 9 down to something closer to 7. I still spent a couple of minutes with the shower as cold as it goes. Warm/hot water doesn't make anything worse, but the cold makes things briefly better. My body temperature doesn't seem to be fluctuating at all, and nothing's red or swollen, but every joint and muscle aches.
I have a rheumatology appointment later this month. I'm hoping they'll be useful; I'm not holding my breath, but it would be amazingly nice to have any sort of map of the prognosis. I don't think they're going to offer anything at all that will be useful for the pain (my long, long list of things I can't take means coming up with a safe medication is difficult).
Also, it's at least 50% that they shrug and say, "Well, fibromyalgia. Go lose weight. Exercise more."
Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night were all the sort of sleep where I woke every 15-30 minutes because I hurt and needed to change position. Naproxen and Tylenol didn't help, and Sunday was awful. I had trouble getting too and from the bathroom due to the pain.
Monday, I felt vastly better. I had had a decent night's sleep, and I'd gone from almost a 9 down to something closer to 7. I still spent a couple of minutes with the shower as cold as it goes. Warm/hot water doesn't make anything worse, but the cold makes things briefly better. My body temperature doesn't seem to be fluctuating at all, and nothing's red or swollen, but every joint and muscle aches.
I have a rheumatology appointment later this month. I'm hoping they'll be useful; I'm not holding my breath, but it would be amazingly nice to have any sort of map of the prognosis. I don't think they're going to offer anything at all that will be useful for the pain (my long, long list of things I can't take means coming up with a safe medication is difficult).
Also, it's at least 50% that they shrug and say, "Well, fibromyalgia. Go lose weight. Exercise more."
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Date: 2021-08-10 09:26 am (UTC)*crossing fingers that the rheumatologist has something useful to say*
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Date: 2021-08-10 11:41 am (UTC)I want to KILL THEM every time they say "lose weight." Yeahright. So easy.
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Date: 2021-08-10 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-10 01:50 pm (UTC)I hope your rheumatology appointment is useful! Good luck.