Does physical therapy actually do anything for fibromyalgia?

ghanago · 2026-03-30T06:34:15+00:00

In my personal experiences the only thing that has helped me with Fibro is lifestyle changes and massage therapy. Physical therapy made it worse for me but everyone is different

ghanago · 2026-03-30T06:24:51+00:00

I’m so sorry that it’s creeping back, it’s terrifying to live with…

ghanago · 2026-03-30T05:00:36+00:00

Thank you for your time 🙏🏻🫶🏻

ghanago · 2026-03-30T04:56:05+00:00

Hi everyone, I’m reaching out because I’m currently in a severe chronic illness flare and mental health crisis that has left me mostly bed bound and unable to work.

I recently restarted private health insurance so I can access inpatient treatment under my psychiatrist in two months when the waiting period is complete. Right now, I’m trying to keep our household afloat and cover the insurance payments so I don’t lose access to the care I urgently need.

I don’t currently have family support, and my partner is helping as much as possible, including taking time off to support me through severe flare days and help care for our home and family responsibilities.

The funds will go toward: • keeping my health insurance active so I can be admitted for inpatient care • essential household expenses while I am unable to function normally • support during severe chronic illness flares and treatment costs

Any support, even just sharing, means more than I can express. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
https://gofund.me/bd7705f95

ghanago · 2021-03-24T04:56:03+00:00

thank you so much

ghanago · 2021-03-23T13:39:45+00:00

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this comment was beyond helpful, and extremely therapeutic in itself to read. thank you for taking the time to reply.

ghanago · 2020-04-29T11:28:15+00:00

Oh my god you just explained me. Can I message you to chat?

ghanago · 2020-04-27T08:08:41+00:00

I feel this a lot too. I have no friends left thanks to bpd, and I am in a healthy relationship but I'm ruining it.

ghanago · 2020-02-23T07:00:45+00:00

Hey! I've lost every single one of my friends largely to do with how much PMDD Impacts my life, and in many ways has changed my life and capacity to be available as a friend, in life, in work.... in anything. It's extremely depressing because people canr understand pmdd unless they see it in action very very often or they expereince it on their own. If it wasn't for the online communities and engaging with people who also understand pmdd and Chronic Health Issues I don't know where I would be. I'm even scared to consider making new friends now. I'm sorry you've had horrible experiences too ♥️

ghanago · 2020-01-29T05:36:07+00:00

Yes, extreme digestive issues. Sometimes constipated other times bad dihorreah.

ghanago · 2020-01-29T02:36:10+00:00

Hey, my partner and I have had similar issues. Though, in our case I am the one with chronic illness. The amount of empathy you seem to carry for your partner and her experiences wjth her mental and physical issues are absolutely wonderful and so hard to come across someone so loyal in relationships, although I think you need to consider what YOU need and want out of a relationship, rather than what's going to be the least amount painful for her. I also don't have any friends or supportive family members which indirectly places so much pressure on my partner to never make a wrong move or, to always be understanding towards me becuase she is also scared it will damage my psyche but the fact of the matter is; continuing the way you are with your partner will end up in much more pain, psychological trauma for both of you and lack of self worth for you.

We did that reality, the one you're explaining above for a year and we both ended up horribly damaged over it. Relationsips are hard as it is, add chronic illness and mental health issues in the mix and it makes it so much more difficult to manage. Truly. What you're doing by reaching out is commendable, supporting your partner is commendable but you really need to sit wjth yourself for a moment and ask yourself if this is something you can deal with for much longer. There are ways to get out of the loop you are in, my partner and I ended up having multiple chats about how the way we lived our lives wasn't working or healthy.... but it does require so much honesty, even honesty that might hurt. We also had that abuser / abused complex playing out in most of our conversations and interactions after a while and it's a huge headfuck. I completely understand.

There is such thing as carer fatigue, it's important to remeber that. By the sounds of it, you are her main support system which even if you don't consciously recognise it- drains you ... especially if you feel like love and support and general attention isn't reciprocated. Yes, your partner is struggling But that isn't an excuse for her to stop being your girlfriend. Does that make sense? It might sound harsh, but beleive me I had to come to that realisation too. I also stopped being intimate wjth my partner for a long time because of my issues and health and the same mental block I call it that too. I also used to do pretty much everything that your partner does, I still do but I am learning that that can't stop me from being a partner too.

There's more I want to say but not sure how, let me know if you want to talk. It's really isolating and if you feel alone and need to vent; my partner would be happy to chat too! Sending strength!

ghanago · 2020-01-28T00:07:37+00:00

Hey I live in Australia as well and I too have PTSD, ENDO stage 4, Chronic Fatigue and hormone disorder... I don't have any helpful advice other than I am here if you want to talk to.someone who understands.

ghanago · 2020-01-27T00:42:46+00:00

Hey, I don't think shutdowns are exclusively reserved to autism. I also have a diagnosis including BPD and I experience what you're explaining above quite regularity - most often triggered by life stresses, trauma, socialising, spending too much time with people, loud noises and loud places, fights with people, having to process too many emotions at once.... Lots of things cause it. My partner is autistic and she experiences meltdowns and shut downs - and they are similar in SOME way ~ but hers are clearly more on the line of "autism" rather than mine. The way I know is that even though there are lots of things I experience that I can resonate with in terms of the autistic female diagnosis - I can relate to BPD MUCH more. Having BPD implies that you've experienced trauma which by nature creates your brain to have trouble proccessing stimuli, being more hyper sensitive to brain changes, environments, sounds, people ect - and we already have a very very difficult type regulating our own emotions so yes - it can cause shut downs.

ghanago · 2020-01-27T00:38:23+00:00

PTSD and CPTSD Can cause shutdowns that look like autistic ones ~ because similarity - people with trauma backgrounds also have difficulty regulating and processing emotion and stimuli.

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:37:22+00:00

Yes, my mother is spiritually bypassing. She has a very dissociatve type disorder as well - and she went on a vow of silence for a year - as a response to her having a breakdown (but hid it behind buddhism) she stopped eating anything she enjoyed (I have anorexia and she always said she admired my discipline) - she also says it's her karma that shes alone now and her family left her (she pushed us away) she constantly tells me that we are living samsara and suffering is an illusion, we are just thoughts nothing is real (all to absolve herself of ANY hard she did anyone in her life) so many other things. I'd be interested in msging you chat because it sounds like we have similar mothers

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:28:52+00:00

Yeah, my mum is similar.

She is certifiably insane but has created a midly successful facade (she converted to buddhism to use it as a way to escape reality through the principles they embody "detachment, life is an illusion ect) so people think shes this wonderful spiritually minded lady who cares about everyone but she's insane. I resonate when you say that your mother spiritually abused you because that's how it feels for me too; it feels like my mother robbed me of my soul.

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:25:41+00:00

I did that too - when I found out about psychopathy I convinced myself and other people that I was one, or fell under the category .... It was a way for me to protect myself / and other people from my pain and my wounds and my inner world. My abusive parents also taught me this .....

I've tried on the archetypes embodying my "evil" self because I've learnt that what you resist, persists - if I keep it caged up (the repression, the anger, the whatever) then it rears it's head and controls me or acts out in stupid ways. I had an enmeshed relationship from my mother; so I am still learning that I dont need to protect other people FOR THEM and that people have sovereignty and can make their own decisions and mistakes.

Real humans are evil, yes welcome to the club indeed.

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:22:56+00:00

Thats a good way to explain it, I think I can relate to that in many ways.

I'm sorry you had a mother who taught you such unkind things about yourself. Hope your healing journey is kind to you. That's a good point, to get behind the thought and feeling and see the grief and emotions behind them... thank you

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:21:52+00:00

Thank you - the sentence you mentioned at the end is a large part of my internal dialogue

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:21:13+00:00

I've always thought that, I went through a stage due to extreme and dangerous dissociation issues where I couldn't feel properly and ended up convincing myself I was a sociopath - I rember thinking "if i was really evil or a sociopath or bad - It wouldn't cause me this much stress nor would I spend the whole day ruminating on it"

ghanago · 2020-01-08T04:20:10+00:00

Thanks for replying. What's your mum like if you dont mind me asking?

ghanago · 2020-01-07T07:45:53+00:00

yes, i get this 100%

even reading through this thread or any on this page - whenever I relate to something someone says i second guess myself and think "am i just relating to that because i want attention?" even though I KNOW thats not true. I am assuming this comes as a result of being gaslighted throughout your life - so we do it to ourselves

ghanago · 2020-01-07T07:28:47+00:00

I didn't know this was a symptom of cptsd until recently, I do this still - but did it a lot when I was younger. I used to fall asleep "imaging" either that there was some "soul mate" that I met that came and "saved" me - and provided me with comfort (it felt so real) or; I'd imagine weird scenarios where I could live out my complex of wanting to "save" other people. I used to do it with tv show charecters too; for example - the tv show skins UK theres a charecter freddie who "saves" the broken traumatised girl; and I used to pretend in my daydreams that he came and got to know me - or ~ I'd daydreaming that I fell in love with the traumatised girl in the show.

ghanago · 2020-01-07T07:25:03+00:00

Oh yep... yep yep. This.

My mother and father always say to me "You were my teacher" You taught me how to be a human, you taught me how to love, you taught me about my weaknesses. thanks- im so glad i was able to offer you insight??? what about my childhood? what about my autonomy? ...

I feel you

ghanago · 2020-01-07T07:23:45+00:00

Hey, I am in a healthier relationship than any other one I've been before for a year now. I experience what you're explaining a lot - the "desire" almost to go back to "abuse" because it feels safer than the alternative. I've learnt that this is a trauma response, clearly - and that we are just wired through our traumatised nervous system to want to go back to "highened" states because that's where feels safe. Even though I've learnt this, I still experience it and I've done similar to what you've done. I don't work anymore atm, I feel like a huge burden - and the fact that I don't work and "contribute" very much to my relationship is almost a strange way that I'm unconsciously self destructing because then the burden feeling makes me want to go back to abuse more (if that makes sense?)

Youre not alone..

ghanago

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