Rhyl
Active member
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2020
- Messages
- 70
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 12/2021
- Country
- US
- State
- KY
I was officially diagnosed a few months ago, but I've had chronic pain for several years. I also have costochondritis, osteoarthritis in my knees and at the base of my thumbs, low back pain, and de Quervain's in my left arm.
Some days I hurt so bad I just want to die. Since my left arm started to bother me (July of 2021), the arthritis in my right hand flared up and has never stopped. So, both hands hurt a LOT--and it's really hard to use them (hard thing for a writer/editor)--and whenever I do anything that requires me to be up and about, I pay for it with a flare-up of the costochondritis--my ribs and sternum and arm hurt with the slightest touch (they feel bruised).
Many times, after I've been active during the day, all I can do is sit here and hurt. Or go to bed and hurt. Besides being sore to the touch all over, everything just throbs.
Not sure why I'm writing, except that the depression (which I've had for decades) is so bad now, and everything feels completely pointless. It's hard to eat because I have no appetite, it's hard to feel like anything I do will matter.
Thanks for hearing me.
Some days I hurt so bad I just want to die. Since my left arm started to bother me (July of 2021), the arthritis in my right hand flared up and has never stopped. So, both hands hurt a LOT--and it's really hard to use them (hard thing for a writer/editor)--and whenever I do anything that requires me to be up and about, I pay for it with a flare-up of the costochondritis--my ribs and sternum and arm hurt with the slightest touch (they feel bruised).
Many times, after I've been active during the day, all I can do is sit here and hurt. Or go to bed and hurt. Besides being sore to the touch all over, everything just throbs.
Not sure why I'm writing, except that the depression (which I've had for decades) is so bad now, and everything feels completely pointless. It's hard to eat because I have no appetite, it's hard to feel like anything I do will matter.
Thanks for hearing me.