Re: Questions about flares

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-Yes I do have pain free times, in fact most of the time I am fairly

pain free. I cant imagine having bad pain most of the time. I had one

bad flare. I woke up in Nov. and could not lift up out of bed. The

pain was in my shoulder blade. It lasted for 2 months. My husband

knew where to massage due to the knots in my muscles. The doc gave me

flexeril for flares but they do not help. I generally always have

mild neck pain sometimes bad neck pain. I also had the very sore

stiff feeling middle finger for a few months. Generally my major

symptom is fatigue and not sleeping well.

-- In @y..., suzimcmullen@c... wrote:

> I am curious about the issues of flares. I can imagine that a

flare is when things are hurting really bad, but I wonder.. do any

of you ever have pain free days? I haven't had a pain free day in

too many years to count. It's always something. My feet have been

in constant and horrible pain ranging on the pain scale from 0-10

every day since 1998. The only time I don't feel pain in my feet is

the few hours at the beginning of the day after I have been up awhile

and before I have been on my feet for a few hours. I can't stop

walking or stand in one spot without them hurting bad and if I sit

down or lie down ever I get shooting pains and cramps in my feet. On

top of the feet I have had a constant neck and shoulder thing going

on and it pretty much just jumps between the 2 sides.

>

> Most of what I feel has been happening for so long I just

ignore it. What has drove me to start investigating all of this is

that I guess I am in what you all are calling a flare. The pain is

getting worse and everything I deal with is piling on all at once

instead of just having 1 or 2 places hurting at one time.

>

> So have any of you ever went through a remission period where

you felt human?

>

> ttyl

> Suzi