Many of the fibromites I know also suffer from depression and anxiety At the very least the constant pain and drastic life changes can lead to discouragement. Granted, Youtube can’t treat depression, you need a doctor for that. I’m talking more about the days that just seem a little bit off. Sometimes, I window shop for items I’m working towards like a Hansgrohe faucet or spend time outside. On those kind of days I watch this video. “I can do anything good”. The really great thing about this is that it was taken in the early 90’s before Youtube was ever around, it was just a home video. Where do you get inspiration?

Today fibromyalgia reminds me of one of those emergency broadcast tests on TV. It seems to say “This was a test. This was only a test of your pain system. If you would have actually been on fire you would have smelled smoke and then it would have stopped eventually. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming”.

July was a crazy month for me which had me traveling all around the state to different family functions while still doing all of my work everyday. Granted, my business didn’t get as much attention as it usually does. That was the thing that had to go, but as far as all of the jobs that actually pay the bills, those ones still got done.

I knew that eventually I would have to pay for this. Healthy people say to just rest. However, with fibromyalgia, it takes awhile to get back to normal. Hopefully this is something that people with jobs in healthcare can understand. In this case, it’s been a month and my health still isn’t back to it’s usual pattern. If I break my routine for a day it will take me 2 or 3 days to get better. If I go for several days in a row running at a super human pace then that time really increases exponentially. What is your recovery time for fibromyalgia like?