Diamond, I experienced that adrenal surge for no good reason when my adrenal reflex got knocked completely out of whack because I had been in too much of a high stress environment too constantly and for too long. I also had PTSD from being in a state of fight-or-flight 24 hours a day for several weeks until I got out of the situation. It took many weeks longer to settle back into normal than the precipitating event took, but it did eventually go back to normal, thank goodness.
Still......who's to say what something like that experience might do to the body long term?
Which, as you say, doesn't explain why some people develop fibro and others don't.
I guess I am just really tired of not having anything that I can actively do about this.
Lately I have had some very bad flare days, and then I got the 'flu, which I am still recovering from. (don't get it. it is a bad one)
What has been happening the past three days is a new one for me. It's only my right thigh, and feels as though the bone is in a vise, crushing it. The pain meds, which normally last 8 hours, are only working for 2 to 3 hours on this and I cannot take more of them.
So, I lie with a heating pad on my thigh and twitch and whimper.
Wake up in the night with it suddenly hurting so badly it makes me almost leap out of bed.
Or, I get up and limp around the house.
It is pathetic.
The first day, I tried to massage the muscle to see if it would help, and any pressure anywhere felt as though I were being jabbed with a poker. The next day and today the pain is the same, but touching or massaging the muscle doesn't hurt at all. doesn't help, but doesn't hurt either.
And why?? No one can tell us.
My body just keeps coming back with familiar patterns of pain, and then every now and then, like the thigh thing, comes up with new and ever-more-creative areas and ways to offer me fresh pain.
I just want to live a normal life. Really, I am very lucky because a lot of the time I can at least pretend to do so, pretend that I have nothing wrong. But it takes a lot of energy to uphold that and sometimes I feel resentment towards my own body for giving me this pain. I don't want to feel that way. I really like my body, and it's a good body, except for this.
Glad I gave you a laugh at least.
My dogs and cat do that for me, and I am so grateful to them for that. It really is the best medicine, isn't it.
I only wish it worked to fix whatever it is that is wrong with us.