Greetings

[Jimmy1]

1, but I feel like I just can't relate. Other women just don't get it, so I have no friends. `Is this what it's supposed to be like? Feeling alone all the time?

Even when we are surrounded by friends and loved ones we feel alone. It is a very lonely disorder.

 

[Barberian]

Poor concentration is a common symptom of PTSD and anxiety. "Fibro fog" is a common symptom of fibromyalgia where your head feels "foggy" - difficulty concentrating. So, I get a triple whammy between the three.

 

[tnkg1rl]

Baberian

How do you deal with the fibro fog? It's like I just can't get anything done, and then when I get behind I get so anxious about it I get avoidant. Do you have that problem as well?

 

[Jimmy1]

You see, I get the same symptoms and my wife even thought I had fybromyalgia. Maybe I do.

A word of advice, just go with the flow. Some days I get nothing done at all, yet on the days it's all good you try and do as much as possible. Find something mind numbing to do like a PC game etc, that way there is no real concentration.

 

[Barberian]

I don't deal with it very well either. Patience is the only way through it. Accepting that my memory is only seconds long sometimes. Accepting that I may have to put off something until I can concentrate helps. I don't live by a schedule, I live by when I can do it without stressing out about it. I don't have a job, so I don't have that pressure. My wife helps a lot, I don't do anything with the household finances, taxes, bills, groceries, etc.

One day I may be able to do pretty much anything I want, then the next, I can't do hardly anything. It may even change mid day, or hourly. That's my life now, no sense in fighting it.

Communicating with the Mrs. how I am doing if I'm having trouble with any of my conditions helps too (PTSD, anxiety, fibro, depression, pain meds, lack of sleep). That way she knows for the most part what I can do and deal with.

I hope this makes sense. I'm having difficulty today concentrating. Lack of sleep, pain meds, fibro day.

 

[tnkg1rl]

Thanks Jimmy,

My husband said to do the same thing, he is 100% he has TBI and 9 back surgeries, he fell off a cliff. If he can't do stuff he just doesn't, and that's ok because I pick up the slack, when I feel bad he picks up the slack. I'm in school full time so it's hard to do something that doesn't require concentration :). It's nice to talk to people who get it.