Don't let anyone tell you that pain is pain. The blank, blanks who say that to you are people who haven't experienced anything more than a headache, toothache, or minor surgery. If you have Fibromyalgia, you soon learn to differentiate various forms of pain, acute or chronic. In the last three years I've had the not-so-much pleasure of experiencing a severe concussion and post-concussion syndrome, a ruptured Achilles' tendon, and now hip replacement.
What each new medical condition has taught me is that the pain of Fibromyalgia is different than the pain of other conditions in quality of pain. As the last remnants of anesthesia leave my body, my leg and hip are screaming at me ... "what the H E Double Hockey Sticks is wrong with you?" I'm struggling to sit here and keep my composure long enough to type this post. One thing that helps me get through these pop-up medical emergencies is the knowledge that they are/were acute. Yes, I still have some chronic symptoms from the post-concussion and Achilles' tendon issues, but pain is very minimal.
So, as I sit or lie here and cringe with pain, I keep telling myself ... "this too shall pass". I tell
myself that the difference between the intense pain of Fibromyalgia and gastroparesis, and this hip replacement is that the latter is acute pain. The pain of hip replacement will eventually subside and, hopefully, fade away entirely. The pre-op pain in the hip was only increasing in intensity and nature and was never going to go away without medical intervention. The pain of Fibromyalgia has highs and lows put never goes away. So, when I want to cry, I cry and then I tell myself ... "but this will pass".
Now it's time to get ready for the home visiting physical therapist.
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