u/GeekAtHome

Today I was supposed to teach my daughter how to ride a bike without training wheels and I woke up with a tension migraine so bad, I can't open one eye.

I can't keep missing out on things because of this. My kids deserve a mom who isn't laid up in bed all the time.

I'd cry but it'll just make the migraine worse.

I was just given a working diagnosis of mild fibromyalgia. I'm 45 and perimenopausal. In my reading, I've learned that perimenopause makes fibro worse.

In my case, it made all the weird things my body did finally get bad enough to take them to the doctor, and that's when I was diagnosed.

It feels weird getting this diagnosis now though. Like, shouldn't this have come years ago?

My diagnosis has been helping puzzle pieces fall into place though. Stuff that my body just...did...that never made sense but I never tied to the other bodily JOTTs (just one of those things).

From anicdotal perspectives, will my fibro continue to get worse as I progress into perimenopause and eventually become fully post-menopausal?

We want to take the kiddies to a playground today, preferably a good sized one

We want to stay for a few hours, so it needs to have toilet facilities.

We do Mooney's Bay a lot as we're south end folk, but we'd like to try a new park for funsies

Suggestions would be amazing. Thank you 😊

My dad was a complicated man but mostly a dick. I'm certain he loved us in his own way, but he was too demanding, too angry, too mean and too narcissistic to show us in any long term, meaningful way.

Of course there were good times but, for me especially as the eldest, they were deeply overshadowed by the bad.

His internment is June 5th and my aunt's have asked for music suggestions.

Dad liked country and country. That's it. His favorites were Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Brooks & Dunn, Charlie Daniels...you get the idea

So, with all that in mind, how on earth am I supposed to find any appropriate songs?

Please help...

(If all else fails, I'll suggest "When I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton)

Hello. I'm a 45 year old woman and I was just given a working diagnosis of fibromyalgia.

As I've been reading more and more, I'm learning that weird things my body did that I thought were normal, were fibro.

Like lightning shocks of pain zapping through me randomly. Or suddenly feeling like someone kicked me in the shin, only to have it disappear just as fast as it came on.

I also have bilateral wrist pain that my doctor ran every test on and it came back as nothing...and yet there are days I can't close my hand properly.

I've been extremely temperature sensitive since puberty as well as photosensitive. Last year being at the park too long with my kids caused my hands and feet to swell, turn purple and itch/hurt.

I think I'm getting a later diagnosis because perimenopause has kicked it up a notch.

I now get the feeling of sunburt skin, especially if I've gotten cold or I'm tired. I'm incapable of being a human if I've done too much the day before. Some days simply climbing the stairs can send me for a nap, and the next day I'm perfectly fine again.

Thankfully, from what I have read and what I know from others that have Fibro, mine seems to be a mild case. So, we're happy for small miracles.

As this progresses, what can I expect from this?

What are good sites to look up or books to read?