Things are moving along at work well. I'm now training to do two different jobs so I keep busy which makes the days go by faster. I finally got out of the hotel and officially moved into my new house. I still have a ton of stuff down in Alabama, so I've been going back and forth every weekend. It's exhausting, but that's my life for the next few months. At least I have a more comfortable car to spend the time in. Anyway, that's not really the point of this post.
This week another person from my first project showed up at work. Apparently she's been on nights but switched to days when her man got transferred to another project. Anyway, she's sitting next to me now and we pretty much picked up where we left off when I last saw her a couple years ago. She's the only one I feel that really understands when I talk about chronic pain. She knows what it's like when people say "you're too young to hurt like that" because she's hurt since she was a kid too. I was updating her on the various things my different doctors have tested, tried, or said. She shook her head and said "You have fibromyalgia, like me." It was like everything clicked into place. I had heard of it before, but figured that if I had it, wouldn't one of the doctors I've been to have brought it up? But then I realized my doctors were too specialized/focused. I never went through ALL my symptoms with any one doctor at any one time, so how could they have seen the whole picture??
Apparently there's no cure and really no treatment. My friend said she manages it with diet. She did an elimination diet to see what caused her to hurt worse and what made her feel better. She gave me some foods that cause her symptoms to flare up as a starting point for my trials. So now I start my own elimination diet and hope I can get my symptoms under control. She suggested processed sugars, caffeine, soda, flour... That'll be fun. I'm also going to research some and see what other people have found. Off on another adventure I guess!
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