Well, I get muscle pain. And this weather change is certainly making it worse. It also gets worse with stress, and the less sleep I get the worse it gets. Today is a day for what is call some minor pains, maybe some creeping a little higher then that on my ouch scale, but so far not too much... Unless you count that random one a minute ago (thank you heat pad!)
The muscle pain also goes pretty hand in hand with my anxiety. Yup, I have minor anxiety. It used to be so much worse, but I've worked hard to try and control it. This is going to be a life long battle, so I try not to get too cocky when I have a good week, I try and remember that it might sneak up again. It's always a little easier when I'm prepared or expect it.
You are probably wondering why I am mentioning this. Well, it's because either you listen to people tell you how they've overcome huge obstacles to be who they are, or no one talks about it at all. I'm going to. Sometimes it's nice to hear from someone just like you and to know that you're not alone. You don't have to have severe pain for it to matter, and you don't have to have dabilitating anxiety for it to affect you, sometimes each can fluctuate between non-existent, mild, and even moderate, and still be inconvenient and uncomfortable. You don't need to be IMO Ike to suffer from life altering pain or to have anxiety affect your daily life. Sometimes just a little is enough.
So I'm sitting here writing it out so it's not sitting in my brain distracting me, and using the writing as a distraction from everything else, with my heating pad. I don't want to take any muscle relaxants or pain medication unless I need to, they can make me sleepy and I've lots to do still!
Here's hoping it all goes down soon, and if you suffer these things too remember you're not alone, and we can still do things, might take us a little longer though.
The muscle pain also goes pretty hand in hand with my anxiety. Yup, I have minor anxiety. It used to be so much worse, but I've worked hard to try and control it. This is going to be a life long battle, so I try not to get too cocky when I have a good week, I try and remember that it might sneak up again. It's always a little easier when I'm prepared or expect it.
You are probably wondering why I am mentioning this. Well, it's because either you listen to people tell you how they've overcome huge obstacles to be who they are, or no one talks about it at all. I'm going to. Sometimes it's nice to hear from someone just like you and to know that you're not alone. You don't have to have severe pain for it to matter, and you don't have to have dabilitating anxiety for it to affect you, sometimes each can fluctuate between non-existent, mild, and even moderate, and still be inconvenient and uncomfortable. You don't need to be IMO Ike to suffer from life altering pain or to have anxiety affect your daily life. Sometimes just a little is enough.
So I'm sitting here writing it out so it's not sitting in my brain distracting me, and using the writing as a distraction from everything else, with my heating pad. I don't want to take any muscle relaxants or pain medication unless I need to, they can make me sleepy and I've lots to do still!
Here's hoping it all goes down soon, and if you suffer these things too remember you're not alone, and we can still do things, might take us a little longer though.