Fibromyalgia and diet

I've been reading again. I had heard of Fibro diets but never really considered that my diet might be affecting by fibro pain and energy level. If you haven't been to the National Fibromyalgia Association site you need to go( www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer). They have numerous articles on Fibro and Diet.

Also they have an article about coping with fibro that is informative. The article mentions celiac disease, which I had never heard of before (and I'm a nurse). On further reading I find that celiac is common in fibro patients and is very under diagnosed. (http://www.fmaware.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6726). I checked out the Celiac Disease Foundation site (www.celiac.org/) which gives a lot of information. Needless to say my doctor will be ordering the tests for me as soon as I can get an appointment.

Fibromyalgia and the holidays

We enjoyed a great Thanksgiving with our daughter and her family. My husband and son-in-law slept in front of the tv and my daughter and I played games all afternoon with the kids. We all enjoyed the day. Of course we ate too much ( I gained 2 pounds). The bad part of the day for me was preparing dinner. My daughter and I shared the work but I still wound up having to stand for quite a while which made me hurt pretty bad. I had to take a pain pill which I don't like to with the children around. But by the time we had eaten I was feeling better.

Another problem I had with Thanksgiving dinner is a problem I have with every meal. I have lichen planus in my mouth and I have dentures. It is amazing that I can eat as much as I did because every bite is painful. It is particularly bad if I get food under the dentures, which unfortunately happens frequently. I have had to give up a lot of foods that I like because of the pain. I can't eat anything even mildly spicy or very sweet because those foods burn my mouth so bad. I can't eat anything hard because it hurts to chew. I do on occasion eat things that really bother me just because I like them, but those times are becoming less frequent. Everything I've read about lichen says that it usually goes away after a year or two, but I've had it for about 7 years. I also have vuvular lichen and lichen in my fingernails. I'm told it is rare to have more than one form but that's me, if I can have anything that makes a person miserable I will get it.

I have been doing some Christmas shopping but I find that I need to know what I going to buy because I can only stand to walk around in the stores for a few minutes. When I go to buy groceries or if I try to wander around the store and look for things I wind up hurting big time.

I got our store decorated for Christmas but that took more than a week. It is very hard to get done the things I need to do.

But despite all my problems the holidays so far are going well. I've almost finished my Christmas shopping and I'm wrapping the gifts 1 or 2 at a time, instead of waiting til the last minute and having to do them all at once like I usually do. I spent some time yesterday addressing and writing cards to go our troops overseas. Now I need to do cards for family and friends. We didn't decorate at home last year and I haven't decided if we will this year; it takes an awful lot of work and pain.