shak8
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Regarding pacing for pain, FM throws that concept out hard on its tush.
One or two arm movements can evoke a 10-day bout of increased local and body-wide pain (from a 5/10 baseline level of pain to an intolerable 7-8/10).
FM pain generation has its particular rules base which take self-discipline to stick to--each and every task using muscles in the FM-affected regions must be thoroughly consequenced, thought through and the task often dropped, if it's not an emergency.
I don't like the word "pace" in any form, because it has the connotation of marking steps in time, as though there is a miraculous progression upward and toward improvement, as though a religious effort. That there is something fundamentally wrong with you the way you just are with your illness.
FM changes how the brain responds to stress (think national and world politics, family stress, sensory, identity and self-esteem, social and role stress, life events).
Pacing: this changed brain and painful state is all reduced to the mechanics of do more A and you will feel better (B). FM doesn't conform to this concept.
Their logic of "pacing" comes from lived human experience---theirs. The human mind's propensity to quickly stereotype everything into manageable categories doesn't help us.
One or two arm movements can evoke a 10-day bout of increased local and body-wide pain (from a 5/10 baseline level of pain to an intolerable 7-8/10).
FM pain generation has its particular rules base which take self-discipline to stick to--each and every task using muscles in the FM-affected regions must be thoroughly consequenced, thought through and the task often dropped, if it's not an emergency.
I don't like the word "pace" in any form, because it has the connotation of marking steps in time, as though there is a miraculous progression upward and toward improvement, as though a religious effort. That there is something fundamentally wrong with you the way you just are with your illness.
FM changes how the brain responds to stress (think national and world politics, family stress, sensory, identity and self-esteem, social and role stress, life events).
Pacing: this changed brain and painful state is all reduced to the mechanics of do more A and you will feel better (B). FM doesn't conform to this concept.
Their logic of "pacing" comes from lived human experience---theirs. The human mind's propensity to quickly stereotype everything into manageable categories doesn't help us.
