Nope, I've always had it, though it wasn't diagnosed until I was a couple of years into grad school. Before that, my doctors told me it was all in my head, and that everybody else was in just as much pain as I was, and I believed them. I really thought the synaesthesia was normal.
Most of the time, I can keep the fibromyalgia in remission with low doses of unexciting medications, with a bit of Tai Chi and yoga on the side. Most years I have a week or two of crash-and burn when something knocks me off my equilibrium, but I have a repertoire of skills now that allow me to pull out of flares in fairly short order. Getting by with no analgesics will mean more Tai Chi, more yoga, more massage, and more care to avoid little injuries and catching colds. It's the disruption between one stretch of equilibrium and the next that's always a bitch.
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Date: 2006-03-14 09:29 pm (UTC)Most of the time, I can keep the fibromyalgia in remission with low doses of unexciting medications, with a bit of Tai Chi and yoga on the side. Most years I have a week or two of crash-and burn when something knocks me off my equilibrium, but I have a repertoire of skills now that allow me to pull out of flares in fairly short order. Getting by with no analgesics will mean more Tai Chi, more yoga, more massage, and more care to avoid little injuries and catching colds. It's the disruption between one stretch of equilibrium and the next that's always a bitch.