The flare up today made me miss hanging out with friends...

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My kindle, in the background is the bus interior

Another day, another appointment!

This was rheumatology, to help confirm that it's 'just' fibro and excessive stiffness from untreated hypermobility, which he did!
I can start with rehab/physio/pain management

Bonus, hospital is an hour on the bus, loads of reading done 😂

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Some mornings I wake up and parts of my body have chosen violence. Today it's my eyes. I would worry, but y'know, it happens often. Rather like I have the phrase "my usual quota of dizzy spells" and this is something my GP understands as being a thing.

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#ChronicPainLife is realizing that having -scale- for your migraines is patently -not normal- & yet not only having one but having friends who understand exactly what you mean... FML It's day 3, ranking is "mild"... do with that what you will.

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a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying . Alt: Leslie from Parks and Rec (Played by Amy Poehler) says "Everything hurts and I'm dying."

straining a muscle in your abdomen, like between the V of your ribs is AWFUL! Laughing hurts, sneezing hurts, coughing hurts... add that to my chronic knee pain, arthritis, and slight migraine and it ALL hurts.

I'm going to go play some more SWTOR.

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A mock up of the ebook The Money Alchemist - a powerful 31 day journey of practical money magic. The book is a deep delicious purple with gold lettering and features blue and purple crystals a potion bottle with a stopper full of gold liquid and some gold coins there are swirls and stars around them all implying serious money alchemy! The book is on a dark wood table with some gold coins next to it and an old candle flickers in the background on a gold candlestick with candle wax running down the sides.

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Chronic pain is being woken up at 3:30 a.m because your back and leg are on fire. #chronicpainlife #chronicpainsky #chronicillness

No one asked, but I like to track weather for many reasons, but one important one is I like having the knowledge that I woke up in pain not because I did too much, but because the pressure of the air is literally squeezing me.
Just gotta know who’s responsible for it🥴
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Went for a slow walk today.
At first — pain.
Halfway — breath, softness, quiet relief.
Sometimes, your body just needs you to show up.

#SmallVictories #ChronicPainLife

Waking up like a hundred-year-old:
dull back pain, creaky joints, bargaining with gravity.
Breathing too deep feels risky.
Life tip: move like you’re made of glass.

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Woke up pain-free today.
No heaviness, no noise in the bones.
Just breathing, smiling, being.
Feels like a private holiday no one else knows about.

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Used to walk 20 km for fun. Now 300 meters and my back wants to sue.
Funny how life quietly rewrites itself while you’re busy pretending it’s fine.

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Tried acupuncture, magnets, monks, lasers. Pain said “aww.”
I’m not asking for advice. I’m documenting the sitcom.
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Good morning = my back hurts slightly less than usual. At this point, I take it as a win. 🫖

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Woke up haunted… by my to-do list.
Pain's tagging along today, but we're still showing up—haunted doll energy activated.
Let’s see what magic we can make.

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Bad pain day. If anyone needs me I’ll be over here eating a frankly obscene quantity of Carr’s Cheese Melts.
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Photo montage, one photo showing Owen looking bemused in the pub, one showing a canal full of weeds, I've showing me looking bemused at the busy road we're walking alongside

This week's "cerdded twp, am ein iechyd twp" (stupid walk, for our stupid health) is less pretty

The rugby is on so we've headed South east away from the city, towards the bay. The bay is too far though, so it's the pub in the Novotel instead! 😂

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Me outside a probably Victorian building

Saw a new physio, be agrees that just concentrating on symptoms is a sensible way forward, given I'm 7 years into "shoulder shrug" as a diagnosis!

Also Cardiff infirmary is old and pretty

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Just realised I can count my shin splints. There’s 26 if anyone’s curious.

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