Today's blog is going to be about pain. For those of you who don't know (which is probably most of you, considering this blog is on Day 4) I have fibromyalgia. (Check out www.fibrohope.org if you're not familiar with the disorder.) Anyways, how I found out about the medicine I'm on, Lyrica, was through this commercial that I have a love-hate relationship with. I love it because it pointed me in the direction of meds that can help; I hate it because the woman in the commercial is so fucking whiny. "Today I really struggled with my fibromyalgia... the pain was terrible... blah blah blah..." I want to smack her.
Why do I want to smack her? Well, while fibromyalgia is not degenerative and can respond to palliative care, it is incurable. "Incurable" as far as I know, means "it isn't going to go away." To me, "it isn't going to go away" means "whining won't do any good, so STOP FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT!!!" You see the whining attitude pretty much anywhere you go to look up fibromyalgia on the Internet. "omg u guyz i hurt soo bad... my rhuemy wont do nothin..." "Gentle hugs and surrounding light to you!" [SMACK!] The interesting part to me is that you can spot a correlation between spelling, narc demands, and whining. The greater the amount of whining in the post, the poorer the spelling and grammar and the greater the number of demands for narcotics will be. I never met a narc that did jack for fibro pain, but call me a crabby old bat. But I digress.
The thing of it is, complaining about it, or "venting" as the complainers love to call it, often makes the pain worse. My doctor and I were talking about this the last time I went in. He was warning me about how meds only take the edge off the symptoms and I told him, "That's all right, the pain isn't what bothers me. I don't mind having a bit." (I have had migraines since age 8 and have lost count of my tattoos. Pain is not the issue.) He said that that was the attitude to have, that so many people wallow in it and sit on their duffs and that makes them worse. I don't mean to imply that fibro is just a question of mind over matter- most of us have been told that before our dx, and we all know about how well that works! But, wallowing in misery and making your whole life be about the pain and suffering isn't the answer either. Not only will you make your own suffering worse, but then I'll be forced to come and bitchslap you, and I am guessing that bitchslaps would cause one hell of a flare. :D
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