Chronic pain and anxiety
Its the start of a new day but that feeling of dread and worry about my chronic pain resides in the pit of my stomach. So many thoughts and worries are going around and around in my head. I think of all the things that I have to do during the day, the tasks that people who are free from fibromyalgia take for granted such as going to work and making sure the house is clean and tidy and I feel overwhelmed.
I pull myself out of bed and gravitate downstairs to make my breakfast. If I make the wrong movement in my legs I can feel that unpleasant pain and at times this leads to a surge of panic running through my veins and an urge to find some semblance of chronic pain relief. All I want to do is to be able to sit down and relax and not have to worry about my fibromyalgia. I want to be able to laugh again and to be carefree.
I subsequently get myself dressed and walk down to the train station each time wincing with the chronic pain in my legs. Once on the train I look around at the other passengers who are looking down at their mobile phones or reading and wonder what it must be like to be able to wake every day with no worry about how they are going to cope with fibromyalgia for the day.
Chronic pain and work
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Reading the experiences of a lady called Britt who documents her personal experiences of chronic pain and the isolation and fear she goes through with her chronic pain has helped me immensely. In addition, there is a blog published on the mighty.com entitled What I Wish Others Knew About Living With Chronic Pain which has been written by a lady called Emily Murray. This blog describes what her experience with chronic pain has been like.
What struggles have you had with your chronic pain? Please leave a comment below.
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