Longlongmeri
New member
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2014
- Messages
- 4
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 08/2012
- Country
- US
- State
- Utah
I ask this because about a year ago I experienced the hardest month of my life. I had been diagnosed with fibro for 4 years prior before deciding to board a plane to a foreign country to adopt a 3 year old. Talk about terrifying! I was not sure I could handle another child with the way I felt, but we went for it. Won't go in to the reason why this happened, but I had to go by myself in the second trip to take custody and be with her for a week alone before the two of us flew back. Surely from the stress, I was totally flared up on the flight over and cried for hours on the plane that I did not think my body would hold up - especially my aching arms and back. But here is the surprising thing.... Despite being THE WEEK FROM H#LL with carrying a 25 pounder around at all times, tackling a thrashing child, and walking up and down two flights of stairs 50 times a day (I was not in good shape prior), and about 5 hours of sleep each night.... I was literally pain free. This pain free continued in the 3 day journey back and the intensive month back at home as she transitioned. I was running on a constant state of stress and adrenalin. When things started to normalize, my symptoms came back (she is doing awesome now, BTW). I think about this a lot and how the highly stressful time made me feel less pain. Can anyone explain why this is for me?