Hi there...
I would be able to do quite a bit of work online, lying on or sitting next to my couch, but half of what I do - or used to do - actually needs intense face-to-face talk if possible, and transferring it to online work in the lockdown seemed less stress for me at first, but doubled work (30 instead of 15h/w) if I tried to do it 'properly'. So I've had to reduce it to about 20% of the 50h/w I used to do.
I've always "gotten up" out of bed & changed clothes, even when I was on sick leave for 10 months, to separate day and night and not decrease my sleep hygiene - using a couch in a different room. Doesn't it get an additional problem if you stay in bed? For me the best thing is gentle movements, with no pressure, so bed was actually not particularly good for me at all. Now I've got most of the pains down with pinpointing, alleviating, exercises and acupressure and my sleep up with passionflower, magnesium and esp. amino acids, bed is quite good - until I have to move
Interesting thought to ask
why it's so many that get fibro. That of course involves the many hypotheses about causes floating around, like CSS, AI, SFN, neuroendocrine, mitochondria/ATP... But I like the slant of looking at the big picture, incl. the
history. There's a study from 2004 about "History of fibromyalgia: past to present" which reminds us that muscle pain has existed
for centuries and used to be seen as a
form of rheumatism. That rings true to me: If people felt bad and cdnt move, I don't think they or their docs/healers were able to pinpoint differences as analytically as we can today. And there were always so many people with rheumatism, first quotes from Ancient Greece. And today also: my wife for a few years now felt I had rheumatism, so sent me there, also the 1st rheum. thought I had A.S. (ankylosing spondylitis), and was disappointed when I didn't have anything. The fibro dx came 3 months later when I went for a 2nd opinion. I must say that I was reckoning with fibro, because I and my GPs'd heard about it a bit and thought that might fit, without really knowing what it entails... yet...
As to direct triggers of fibro, such as perhaps environmental toxins - mine might seem to be swine flu, probably not that environmental.
I'm someone who has reduced the contact with environmental toxins early on, nowadays 90% organic food & clothes, reduced fume intake from cars and home etc., for ecological reasons, but also realizing how hypersensitive my body is.
If the prevalence of stress and trauma in the lives of many fibromites is anything to go by, stress in our modern day life & work might be something contemporary, while trauma is ancient - since humans and their wars exist.