Sounds almost crazy saying that and to be honest I’m not really sure how to explain it. I don’t want this to sound like I’m complaining for what could be perceived as mild symptoms. I want to use this post mostly to laugh at my ignorance and maybe as a warning to others.
For some context I do have moderate ADHD and I’ve definitely been over working myself these past few years. I have been having my regular fibromyalgia symptoms throughout this time but decided to ignore it. Telling myself I had to get through the day and I could take some pain killers later. Now I guess I’ve been doing this so much that I “forgot” all about my fibromyalgia. I ignored it and just pushed through, to the point that I’ve been able to not notice my lingering chronic pain as much. Sounds great right, I somehow managed to mind over matter this.
Well the inevitable happened. For the past months I’ve been having the worst symptoms I’ve ever experienced. My chronic pain reached a point that my bad day pain killers felt like I took a Tylenol instead, my fatigue has me feeling like instead of sleeping my body decided to participate in some sort of triathlon, and the muscle spasms and my pain sensitivity have reached a whole new high.
I was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on. It wasn’t until I started venting about my back pain to a co-worker who asked why I had such high dosage pain killers that I remembered all about my fibromyalgia, and realized I’ve been ignoring it for a little over a year. So yeah, all that to say don’t ignore your symptoms as they will come back with a vengeance.