Flare ups

[Dandelion2025]

Hi all,
I hope everyone's day Is going well.
I just wanted to post and ask if people generally, outside of having, what I myself consider to be good days, with very mild/mild pain, that only manages to limit me slightly, have flare ups?

Sudden/more intense pain, which lasts (for me) for anywhere from a day to several weeks?

Is there any symptoms or cues that you personally find happen before a flare up occurs?
Personally I find my stomach goes funny and then I lose most of my appetite.

I was just curious how others experience their pain/symtoms, if it's consistently at 100% or if it varies from day to day?

 

[sunkacola]

In a word: Yes. Having "flares" is a part of having fibromyalgia, and almost everyone reports having periods of time, from a few hours to a few weeks, when the pain is worse than usual.

I have not ever experienced anything that would let me predict these times. Usually I will just wake up in the morning knowing that that day is going to be harder than the day before, and sometimes that only lasts for a day and sometimes it will last for weeks.

 

[mcleod66]

With a flare how does everyone cope with their flare up as I have been suffering now for 13 days and it is getting worse and it is effecting my everyday life. Does anyone have any advice or ideas coping with a fare up.

 

[sunkacola]

With a flare how does everyone cope with their flare up as I have been suffering now for 13 days and it is getting worse and it is effecting my everyday life. Does anyone have any advice or ideas coping with a fare up.

If you have not yet done so I recommend that you read the post of advice on managing fibromyalgia that is at the top of the General discussion forum. There are many suggestions in that post for how to manage fibromyalgia. In general, fibromyalgia does affect every aspect of our lives from day to day and the best thing you can do is experiment with many different things in different areas of your life and lifestyle, to find out which things are helpful to you. What helps one person can make another person feel even worse, so while we can always tell you what we do, unfortunately it may not be helpful to you because what will help you is very likely to be different.

 

[hope23]

Flares is unfortunately a fact of life living as we do, whether you have fibro alone or fibro and other conditions which is also common, periods of being worse is something we all have to deal with.
As sunkacola said what works for each of us can be very different, for me its usually a combination of adjusting my medications, pulling back in my commitments whether that is working from home a few days a week or skipping dog agility etc for a little while, what i will say is this though rest is extremely important but so is keeping your body moving, whether that is walking to your letterbox or spending time lightly stretching inline with your capabilities, although it hurts, the flare and pain usually worsen or stick around for longer if you stop everything and just rest and not move your body much, although i know how contradictory that sounds(and how much like trying to climb mount everest it feels to try and do in the middle of a flare).

We are all here for you whether thats to talk about what helps us or simply to listen to how your feeling in this moment we are all here and we all know first hand what your going through/experiencing