Fibro Forgetfulness is really a pain in the hump! This is not supposed to happen until you are sitting in your rocking chair knitting at age 70 or 80! Not at 51 when you finally have an empty nest and have a whole list of things you would love to be doing! An older person said to me the other day...well we all forget things every day...that is just part of getting old.....Not this! You don't understand...Fibro Fog is a big interrupter in your thinking process! I do not understand for the life of me why it is that I can seem to write things just fine but to speak...I forget words and cant seem to get through a conversation some times...so if you are talking to me and I get distracted...forgive me. What I am finding helpful though is to live with post it notes....make sure I have a pen and paper everywhere I am because if I write it down right away then I can always go back and read it later. Make sure you have a calendar where you can see it and mark every appointment! I have already missed a couple accidentally...something I have never done in my life! Be careful when writing out checks...ha ha...I have to confess I was in a real fibro fog one day this week and wrote out a check that said nineteen hundred dollars instead of nineteen dollars!! Big mistake!! It was OK though....thankfully we caught it, but it made me realize how bad this fibro fog really is, and how much more careful I need to be. I make sure my pills, and my husband's pills, are in pill boxes with the days on them, and keep them separately so as not to mix them up...there are some simple things you can do to fight this fibro fog that has taken over your fibro body at a young age! It is not part of the aging process.... it is a disease process that is still a mystery. This is why so much more research is needed to figure out why so many people worldwide have this disease....what causes it and what can cure it? Right now there is no cure...there isn't even any meds that really even help that much...I am on a few myself so I can say...the help is minimal...people expect me to "feel better" just because I now have meds. Well...I am still waiting along with all of the other people with Fibromyalgia across the world! I am in pain right now while typing this. It never seems to be gone. If you know someone with Fibromyalgia, then be supportive of them and realize that they are "Never" going to be better... there is not a cure...it is a disease that never leaves their body ...there may be days when they feel better than others but when you do not see them...they are Not having a good day. I hope you will all be having a good day today...I know we cannot take them for granted and we need to cherish the good ones!
