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moonwatcher wrote:Thanks for describing that fulenn. In my time of the Swank discussion board, I read other people dealing with it. Hopefully it goes away altogether, or at least becomes less noticeable or bothersome or painful. I'll hold a good thought.
moonwatcher
lmggallagher wrote:Fuelenn:
I clipped your 4 item list and am posting it on my journal under wise words from Fuelenn. You nailed why I am journalling here too! My symptoms are hard to piece out too. I have found that I have eliminated things that I thought were part of the fibromyalgia and ended up being something else altogether ( like localized arthritis) and some that definitely are (like IBS) - even thought the top two pain and fatigue remain. I think like you there are numerous syndromes within our diagnosis that seem to be knocked out early on by the WOE. Funny thing is I still think I am having bad days when the severity is so much less there is no comparison. Our journals will keep us on the straight and narrow in future too, just as you say.
Thanks for the list and your clear goals. Along with the accounting of all the progress you are making and of course the delish meal lists!
fulenn wrote:
This journal is going to be hugely helpful to me in another year or two when I am feeling better and don't really remember how it was. I plan to come and look at it and remind myself of these things:
1--it wasn't my imagination
2--I am not exaggerating the memory of my bad experience, it's right here to read
3--don't quit eating right because look what happens when you do
4--don't be thinking, because you are doing so well that it can't happen again. It did this time. I was doing well, got lazy, busy, and just fooled myself into thinking that it wasn't really that bad and this couldn't really be what is making the difference, so eat what you want.
I think that number 4 is the most important thing for me. It is so easy after many years to begin thinking that maybe there was a misdiagnosis, maybe what I am doing to stay symptom-free really isn't making a difference, maybe I would have been fine anyway. I did that and will not make that mistake again. I will be on this board, if Dr. McDougall sees fit to keep it up, for years to come.
Fulenn
nicoles wrote:[I could not agree more, Fulenn!
(Hi, I'm Nicole, and I read your journal regularly, but haven't had time to post til today.)
I feel off the wagon a couple of times after thinking I was "cured" or maybe not sick at all, but that so was not true and I paid for it, with lots of pain and disability for a couple of months at least.
Your journal is very helpful to me, too.
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