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Confusion or fibro fog?

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lynda10338
lynda10338

Hi, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia around 15yrs ago, the pain at times is horrendous but the worst thing is fibro fog I feel so confused I know what I want to say but things just get muddled up.Today I asked my husband a question but we ended up arguing because I just cant get him to understand what I wanted to say, feel as if Im going mad, also Ive started to drop things as at times there is like an electric current going up my arm leaving my fingers all tingly,does anyone else have this problem?

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  • Becka35
    Becka35 lynda10338

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    I get so frustrated when I can't get the words out I went to school for 8 years graduated top of class and can't get simple words out because of the brain fog. It's depressing. I also have this issue when I am very tired that my ears will pop and I can hear my heart beat and breathing through u ear it's so strange. Any one else have this problems.
    • deb97936
      deb97936 Becka35

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      hahahaha.. YES Becka I do to!!!    It is the wierdest thing.  I don't have my ear pop. BUT, I can hear the blood pumping through the artery under my left ear.  If you put your finger on the area of the artery under you ear it will cease till you release it again.   Plus it only happens when lying in a certain position with head on pillow,  I haven't had it for awhile now.   I did mention it to the doctor but he ignored it..

      I just decided that it must be muscular...  given that the muscles can be quite tight to rock hard, mostly 24/7 hence the all day/night skull cap headache.  But I get a couple of other types of heads, triggered from my munted neck.  Anything else muscular.  Even the minor muscles over the skull can give you a whopping head/migrain and so sensitive to touch your head.

      Hence when your shoulders/neck and head muscles are so stiff/cramped up and sore, your tired.  It can be due to the restricted blood flow to the head why your so overly tired, due to the muscle issue.

      I have to say that hearing the magnified sound of my artery valve pumping so loudly like that was at first kind of worrying.  I'm used to it now. 

  • neilwaud1969
    neilwaud1969 lynda10338

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    Tell me about...... Sometimes when......... And also I......... Without earning......... Sorry to tell that humorous joke, but that's like what my daily struggle is, yesterday I was in tears of sorrow as for the FIRST time I hadn't a clue what I wanted to say or what I was talking about. Very worrying at 46 years old.......

    Happy Sundays.

    • deb97936
      deb97936 neilwaud1969

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      We are a 'Class of our own'... are we not Neil....lol.....  Who gets top of the class?   Who get the 'Ducks'  hahahaha

      Neilwaud, I know how you feel..  Your about a decade behind me..  I'm past worrying about my memory aspect now, only because I understand what is causing it.  It's not like our memory has 'gone burgers'.. It's just slow to rise to the ocassions when we wish/need to call on it.  lol...  Then when we are relaxed or in our own drift of thoughts we are generally fine... because of no 'pressure' to remember...

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