📝 I may be a failed human torch
One of the symptoms I hate the most in fibromyalgia is how it messes with my internal temperature perception. Whatever the season we're in, if I'm in pain, I'm sweating. If I do something that my body interprets as physical effort, I transform into a human sweat waterfall. Sometimes, things get even worse, and I feel so hot that I have trouble breathing.
Let me use today as an example.
When I woke up, I brushed my teeth and then cleaned Chico's toilet. In a matter of seconds, my t-shirt was soaked in sweat, and my eyes were burning from the perspiration dripping from my forehead and into my eyes.
But it gets worse. Sometimes, I feel so hot that I have trouble breathing. And today was another example of that.
All of this because I woke up, got out of bed, brushed my teeth, and cleaned my cat's toilet. Just this.
There's an upside to this, though [I'm trying to look on the bright side of this, ok...]. Occasionally, before I start feeling the pain increasing, I start feeling crazy hot and sweating. This allows me to at least have a few moments to prepare myself for the upcoming pain increase. Those few moments can go from a few seconds to a few minutes, but never more than that, unfortunately.
Better than nothing, though 🤷.
