fibro and bruises. jeez.

[mopinko]

so, last thursday i showed my usual supply of grace, and took a header down a half a flight of stairs. slammed into the wall head first. nothing broken or anything. a small cut on my head and a couple of bumps elsewhere. in the days since, as the bruises have bloomed, i see that i have one of the biggest bruises on my arm that i have ever seen, short of a car accident. it covers about half of my arm. a real beaut.
like it has in the past, this has given me quite a flare up of the fibro. i have felt like shit since then, and today have a pain explosion in my rib cage and shoulder. this is on the other side of my body. there is not a bruise in sight anywhere near where it hurts.

do other fibro sufferers have this sort of thing?

[Warpy]

1. Other than the moon being perpetually in Klutz, not really

but any fall or other accident will produce pain in places you think escaped unscathed. Likely you overstretched a few tendons when you fell and they're letting you know about it now.

[mopinko]

2. prolly true

little better today. i'm tired, but i spent most of the day in the kitchen. not cuz i wanted to, but because the freezer got unplugged. but....

[ThomCat]

3. I've wondered if I now bruise more easily

or if my bruises heal more slowly as the fibro get worse. It just seems like bruises last longer and hurt more than they used to.

I also get a lot of random bruises now where I don't ever remember doing anything to cause them.

[mopinko]

4. I get a lot of them, too

I get dime size bruises in places that I could not possibly have taken a hit. and they do heal slowly. afore mentioned bruises are almost gone, and the worst of the bumps is still a little swollen and sore.
it's always something.