"Fibromyalgia and More"

I'm elated to have just discovered online support groups. I knew they existed, but I never really knew where they were. No doubt that face to face and phone is best, but internet is a tool.

Internet can be your reward or your downfall. You can use it as a tool to become even more socially connected, or you can hide behind the computer screen and possibly lie about your identity etc. and never really come and meet folks face to face.

Each a.m. I awaken with the following symptoms depending on the day

-excruciating pain running all thru my arms and hands

or

" "pain in my hips and legs

a headache

or just general body wide pain

-some days I'm too weak to do anything at all

I usually feel like I need more sleep no matter whether that's true or not. Because we don't get the deep sleep. (stage 4 I think that's called)

Today, I fell twice in the morning. Both times I used furniture to break my fall. "I've fallen and I can't get up" everybody laughed about the ads when they first came out. My neighbor falls a couple of times a week, and yells into her life alert machine. The ambo. comes out and helps her get up. I feel she shouldn't be living alone and I wonder why her family let her live alone. This last time she broke her wrist.

I don't know why I"m falling. I guess it's a neurological thing. Maybe they'll find that it's related to the difficulty remaining conscious that I had daily from 3/1/ thru 3/5 when I was in the hospital. I've believed for years that hospitals are likely to just make you sicker.

Hopefully something useful will turn up when I get the e.e.g. results. I don't think I should be living alone either.

My friend had a stay in a psych ward for a few weeks over the winter and caught a superbug which nearly killed her. Point made about hospitals.

"I've fallen and i can't get up!"

Sometimes it's scary to live alone. What if I fall and can't reach the phone? What if I'm too sick and weak to get to the phone?!

. This was put to the test on Thursday. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, when my face got hot really fast, I got naucious and collapsed. I wasn't totally unconscious, but wondered: "Am I gonna die in this prison cell?"

I came to enough to get to the phone. Stayed on the phone with a friend for 5 minutes and had her just talk me through whether or not I should call an ambulance. I decided that since I do live alone, I don't want to take another chance at another incident later in the day. She dropped me off at the e.r.

They ran a bunch of tests, and can't figure out why I collapsed. They said that many e.r. admissions are due to collapse. So they have ordered an echocardiogram (not sure exactly what that is) but I assume it allows them to see stuff they can't normally see. I'll keep you informed! I'd bet most people think: "Why "life alert" if you're young?" Because any manner of things could happen to a person even if they aren't a senior citizen.