Piggy chops

Rice water onions mushrooms hard cider spices apples pork chops baked 350 for 2 hrs with a side of garlic green beans and almonds

Ahhhh the season changes

Not a good time for Fibro Sufferers

But get up, get moving and eat healthy! Helps keep you positive and not dwelling on all these things!! 

Lesser Known Fibro Symptoms

Most people who suffer from fibromyalgia are familiar with the condition’s many common symptoms. These include pain, fatigue, fibro fog, depression, anxiety, stiffness and irritable bowel syndrome. It’s likely that if you suffer from fibromyalgia, you will suffer from most – if not all – of these symptoms.

Which of these less common fibromyalgia symptoms do you suffer from? How do you cope?

 1. Chest Pain

Sharp pain in your chest is a worrying feeling and shouldn’t be ignored as it can often be an unrelated health issue. However, it’s often associated with fibromyalgia, as the chest is one of the trigger points where fibro patients experience pain. Sometimes this can lead to a shortness of breath, but more commonly it is a sharp pain in the chest area without any other side effects. Gentle exercises and deep breathing can help ease this pain, as can heat and gentle massage.

2. Dry Skin and Itching

Dry skin and itching is another symptom some fibromyalgia patients experience. Often skin can appear flaky and dry and those dry areas often become itchy. If you scratch at your skin, rashes can then appear or skin can appear bruised. Apparently the itchiness may be a result of pain signals being misunderstood by the brain, so it’s important to keep your skin moisturized and try to avoid scratching.

3. Tingling and Numbness

I think this is one of the more common lesser known symptoms. Tingling and numbness, also known as paresthesia, commonly exists in the hands and feet as a result of extensive use, and rest or massage can sometimes help this. However, your tingling can be caused by anxiety as a result of shortness of breath causing reduced blood flow. Deep breathing can often be found to improve paresthesia.

4. Excessive Sweating

This occurs as a result of an autonomic dysfunction in the area of the brain that controls sweating, bowel movements and other body functions. It can occur as a side effect of fibromyalgia and therefore requires fibro patients to carefully control their body temperature – something we are often used to as many fibro sufferers find heat/cold impacts our pain.

5.  Poor Balance and Special Disorientation

Losing balance is a frequent occurrence for some fibromyalgia sufferers. It is believed this is because we carry less lower body strength and our legs are less stable. Because of that, we are less able to steady ourselves when there is a risk of falling. Not only that, but the risk of falling is often increased due to special disorientation (sometimes an effect of fibro fog) and other balance-related side effects like ringing in the ears or blurred vision.

6. Heightened Sensitivity

Heightened sensitivity to touch, also known as allodynia, results in pain from things that wouldn’t normally cause you discomfort. Hyperalgesia is the term for feeling extreme pain. These two conditions as part of fibromyalgia can lead to immense discomfort. For example, something that causes some pain such as stubbing your toe or knocking your elbow can be excruciating to a fibro patient, and something that shouldn’t hurt at all like a friend patting you on the back when greeting you can cause great pain.