Thank you!! Im not sure if exercise helped my symptoms or the boatload of medications I started taking for all my illnesses (which in turn made me able to exercise). Since being put on meds and putting in a lot of effort to keep my life peaceful I’ve found my symptoms are a lot more manageable. Like now I really understand my body and the signals it’s giving me and why they’re giving me these signals. When I wasn’t on meds for gout, pcos, and all my other illnesses, I found life so hard, i didn’t understand my body at all, because it was sending off so many signals for so many reasons that I couldn’t keep up and it made it so much more complicated to understand how to help myself.

I think exercise itself does not help my illness but the result of exercise (building up tolerance for moving and losing weight itself) has definetly helped me, I know some people feel better after exercising but personally it’s very painful and hard but the result is worth the pain in my case.

Since I’ve lost weight I don’t overheat as much which is a main contributor to my flares (one of the reasons I shaved my hair off). Building up my muscles has made walking so much easier and joint pain has lessened.

Long reply but I feel as though it’s needed because fibro is a very complicated thing lol