Tag / Fibromyalgia

by Jana Rawling

CRPS & Weight Gain

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Give Me a Break

Before I got CRPS in my feet I had no problem with weight gain. But immobility over the past six years has caused me to become morbidly obese with Type 2 Diabetes. Oh, and there are four other rare diseases I’ve been diagnosed with too. Five rare diseases. How is that even possible?

I am definitely eating my emotions.

I have developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) because of the hopelessness CRPS creates. Getting a CRPS diagnosis is not a death sentence but, in many ways, it feels it might as well be. CRPS is known as the suicide disease for a reason. The CRPS prognosis is grim to say the least, and hope can become an ever-fleeting notion.

I want off the merry-go-round of not walking because of the pain, gaining weight from not walking, and not walking because of the pain, and so on. I know logically how to dismount the catch-22 spin but can’t seem to jump.

So, I write.

by Jana Rawling

Hot Temperatures & CRPS

Ouch!

CRPS Can Really Suck

CRPS is relentless when it comes to hot temperatures. Summer is closing-in, and the heat is rising. When it’s hot outside my body knows it. I can be in the air conditioning, and it hardly matters. I thank God that I live in a moderately weathered area of Southern California. But when the temperature rises above 75°, I feel it intensely.

My friend took me to the pharmacy to pick-up medications yesterday and it was around 86°. I had symptoms of a heat stroke when I got home. I felt like I was being microwaved for about three hours. I had four icepacks on me in various places, had to take a cold shower, and vomited because of the nausea.

CRPS sucks. CRPS with Fibromyalgia really sucks.