3 of the worst things to do for fibromyalgia
Hello
This week I am going to tell you the 3 of the worst ways to manage fibromyalgia pain. Some of them might even be very common advice that is doing the opposite of what it meant to.
Rest more
I know. The first thing to do is to get in bed a wait for the pain to be over. As we hope that will help make it better.
This makes perfect sense for the first time you had pain. Even more so when there was a specific event that caused the pain. Like falling on it or spraining it.
However, fibromyalgia is different. The pain keeps on coming back out of the blue. Nothing seems to have caused it this time, and every time it comes back it gets worse. Or maybe there the whole time.
More rest will cause more issues. It’ll make you weaker, less able to do things like get up from the chair or in and out of the bath. It will also make you depressed and have a significant toll on your mental health.
It is the worse thing you can do.
Isolating yourself more.
When you have been in pain a long time you might become terrified that the moment you leave your house to visit your friends or do something you want to do, the pain is going to come back. You will be stranded with no one that can help you.
This terror will lead to anyone cancelling all plans with anyone, always responding to an invite with No and staying in as much as possible.
When we isolate ourselves we make ourselves feel worse which in turn makes the pain worse.
Over time that will lead to psychological issues.
And you will have no friends.
Wait another week to see if it’ll get better
This is the right move when it is the first time you had knee pain or something like that. For fibromyalgia, it isn’t
The longer you wait, the worse the pain gets and the more your problems will cause problems all their own. It will cause things complicated mess of problems that you do not want.
Waiting before you get professional help will not work.
Did waiting longer to fix the leak in the roof make it easier to deal with?
I didn’t think so.
Jason
