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]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-about-fibromyalgia/#comment-45183 Wed, 26 May 2021 09:36:52 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=5457#comment-45183 As a reader with Fibromyalgia, I wanted to thank you for this as this 1) makes me feel less alone, 2) helps me look at my symptoms from another perspective, 3) helps me better explain my trouble to people. I also plan to write a character like myself, so I am reading and reading even though I have it myself.
Here I am detailing a few stuff.
Sometimes the pain doesn’t remind me of itself. I don’t actively think about it, though it is there, whether a light sting or a moderate one. Sometimes, though, it goes severe and keeps hurting. For me, it feels like a burning feeling. I also feel a wave of electricity from my back, shoulder, arms. The worst pain is the back pain and a certain shoulder pain. It hurts all the way to that hand, of course the other muscles keep hurting too but this is the worst. I can function most of the time, though often getting frustrated as it hurts and hurts. Sometimes I am unable to handle it so I sleep early to wake up refreshed… what a joke, I don’t feel refreshed no matter how much I sleep. If someone gives me a back massage, just on the exact points with soft touch, oh God what a heaven. But then, of course someone can’t give a massage forever, the pain is back. I sometimes daydream about those.
Sometimes I want to shout “I am in pain” but no one would take it seriously as I am “always in pain”. I should “learn to cope with it and shut up”. People get bored easily. They think that it is all in my head. When I can’t share my pain and the excuse of my unfunctionality, I feel distant and it causes stress, making pain more.
I hope my experience helps any writer who wants to write about it.

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