Felt it coming on
Yesterday was a great day chocolate and flowers and love wise, and not such a great day pain and symptom wise.
Unfortunately my bad spells usually last a few days or so at a time, building to a peak in the middle.
Yesterday was bad, today is worse. I could barely sleep last night, and I’ve woken up with more pain and discomfort, and one of my least favorite set of symptoms I get…. urinary tract irritation.
Yesterday I had eye inflammation/dryness/soreness and I still have some today, but this morning I feel like I have a raging bladder infection.
I will have to go and get tested just in case I do have an actual bladder infection, but since the onset of my fibromyalgia, I’ve been this road before. All that urgency and urethral pain and discomfort is more than likely just what the fibromyalgic ‘irritable bladder’ acting up, it feels exactly like when I get a urinary tract infection and the only way to tell the difference between the two is go get a sample tested.
Just like I have irritable bowel, which is also acting up. Hell, the whole system is crashing. I’ve read that you can get a type of lidocaine/anesthetic to get to numb the oversensitive nerve endings of the urethra with people with fibromyalgia who suffer badly from this. I’m going to have to ask my family doctor about that, because nothing sucks more than something that mimics a bladder infection, but can’t be abolished.
It’s impossible to know whether I’ll have 3 or 4 days of hell coming up, or a few weeks before symptoms lessen a bit again. Unfortunately it’s all guess work, the worst part is knowing that I can’t know. Maybe this time symptoms won’t ease up again, maybe this time it’s an overall worsening of the condition that could last months or years? Who the hell knows, it’s evil scary stuff.
So, I had planned on a weekend of fun and frolic, going to Friday Fixe and Rascals, lovely kink events, but one thing I can predict, I won’t be feeling well enough in time to be going anywhere tonight or tomorrow. Even if by some miracle things start to ease up for me today or tomorrow, I’ll be catching up on sleep/rest.
That’s enough out of me, fingers hurting.