Fibromyalgia: ‘Like a Prisoner in My Own Body! Never knowing What Torture is Coming Next’

by M H Shahid

Fibromyalgia is the hardest thing to deal with people don’t understand. We asked the question to our online Facebook community “Living with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Illness” that How do you describe your feeling about fibromyalgia?.

Fibromyalgia is a great incentive to live for each day. If you wake up and can move, make the most of it. If you wake up and can’t move, then don’t. Get some rest, read a book, watch a movie. It might not be what you want, but it’s what you have to do for that day. Tomorrow is a new day and may well be different to yesterday. Be thankful that you have tomorrow because many people don’t. I know it’s difficult to feel that way when you’re in constant agony but there is always something good to in each day. 

No words to describe how awful it is it’s a living hell, It makes feel like I don’t have a life no more. But we have compiled few of the pain description tell us by our members below.

This is what community shares with us:

1. Kerryn E – It’s like being hungover and drunk but also sick like flu after doing a full body intense work out and 10 rounds with mike Tyson but lost and living on another planet because I’m an alien compared to others they can’t comprehend my life like

2. Beth W- it make me feel like a tin man. That’s perfect, the tin man that needs to be oiled in EVERY single joint. And someone holding a torch to ALL my aching muscles. With my head in a vice. Yep, that about sums it up, what a miserable existence

3. Kimmie G- Like a triple trailer ran over me; like I need my hips replaced; cut me off at the waist because lower half just isn’t used friendly; your worst hangover X’s quadrillion with the worst flu 2 hit mankind & a memory span the size of a knat……otherwise, I feel great!

4. Chris G- My feeling is that I have been killed, but still breathe through the pain…

5. Marjie C– It makes me feel like a prisoner in my own body! Never knowing what torture is coming next

6. Jessica C– I feel like I have been hit with a bat, my muscles feel like they are being torn and tugged, I feel like I have a 2×4 that sits on my shoulders all day while having the flu and sweating to death…

7. Vickie M- I feel like I have a little elf inside my body running around with an ice pick and randomly stabbing my joints and muscles 24/7.

8. Clara F- I feel as if I’m in the 12th Century and my body is been pull apart.

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9. Becky M– I feel like my bones are breaking from the inside out.

10. Tracey W – I have a ghost that loves to squeeze my body parts, like someone digging their fingers into your skin and grabbing your muscles in a tight vice grip

11. Angela Z – Like im the tin man with no oil can….. and was burned from my straightener from head to toe.

12. Paula G – Like I’ve been rolled down a hill in a barrel of rocks, spent the night in a running cement mixer, ran a marathon, then got dragged across a few miles of cactus behind a pissed off mustang

13. Delana M – At time it feels like you’ve been thrown off the mountain then stabbed with hot and ice then it feels like you’re on fire

14.  Tina F – It feel likes tour body is squeezed together like an orange All the time. Or as if there is twisted wire too tight around your body

15. Sandra L – A thief that has stolen my life. No two days are the same. You never know what it’s gonna throw at you. Every day is something new a new pain a new flare. Being bedridden. You’re fighting your body just to get through the day. Nobody should have to live no exist like this Pain is excruciating pain most people can’t handle n we have no choice but to accept it. The medical field has really let us down.

16. Tracy W – Like someone found the draw-cords to all my muscles and tendons, then pulled them all up thigh.  I feel like that a lot and peay it not gonna be a wedgy

17. Rachel G – I feel like I have been in a head on collision with a mac truck. .broken every bone in my body..and have severe flu on top of that.

18. Sharon N – It feels like you laying on a bed of rocks, getting up and walking is a challenge, feeling like you are walking on needles and pins. Taking a shower is so tiring, and the water hurts your skin.

19. Janice R – I feel like I,m tied to two horses and they are going in different directions. My arms to one horse my legs to the other one. My sockets feel out of joint. It gets terrible at times of flare ups. Other times not as bad , but still in pain.

20. June J – I feel like someone is dancing around in my brain and choosing what and when I become deaf, dumb and dizzy.

21. Renee H – It feels like a whole body migraine.

22. Aileen S – You feel like you have the flu all the time ,body aches and pains.

23. Julian S – Has anyone ever gone out drinking an dancing only to be knocked out and a three sided fight, involving 20 men, to take place on top of you. You think you are okay as nothing is broken and because you are drunk as f so you go home and in the morning you have the combination of a severe hangover, maybe even alcohol poisoning and are bruised everywhere? It’s a bit like that but much less fun and last longer.

24. Carol D- Feels like when u hit your funny bone.

 

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Let us know in the comments below that how would you describe your fibromyalgia Pain? Also Feel free to share if you find any description close to your heart.

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