Just a thought....

[Extremelygrumpy]

Just been thinking... About exercise..... When I was diagnosed with fibro in my 20s some 20 odd years ago, I was just given leaflets and told painkillers and stay active.. Swimming walking etc... And I did.. I had no partner no children so I carried on as normal working full time going out exercising loads and my fibro was only the occasional flare up of real bad tiredness my gp would sign me off work for a week or an odd bout of chostochondritis , I would down the pain killers and carry on to work.... Now I am in my 40s my body is a wreck muscles knotted and tense all down my back and neck arthritis in my ankle knees and hands and now one hip is hurting the same and making a click clunk when I walk.... During the time of wellness I met my husband and we had a child.... So maybe i should look back and think I was lucky my fibro was mild..... But ... Now... I don't think in my 40s I should have this wreck of a body... so after all this rambling ..my point....

What if all the exercise, and I did loads and working full time did that cause the fibro to become as bad as it is now and cause the arthritis to come on overnight literally when I was 43.... What if when diagnosed I had done less paced more would my body be this bad now... I,ll never know... But if it should happen to be the case that when diagnosed with fibro you should curb your lifestyle, I would much rather have done less when I was younger and be better than I am now... Does leading a totally normal life with fibro or trying to, actually wear your body out quicker?????

Just a thought.... Ramble over

VG x

[julieevh]

I started work on 8/8/77 and until my first big stroke on 8/1/07 I was working flat out for various companies, for my qualifications and my teaching career. For the final 10 years of teaching I was surviving on 4 hours sleep a night. It has got to have had an effect on my body and the broken down wreck it is nowadays.

I have a good friend who was a runner - she can barely walk now due to Arthritis.

I'm not convinced the human body was designed for excessive work and exercise; wish I'd have been much more gentle and generous with myself when I was younger. Look at the Queen Mum, a life of luxury and booze and lived to be over 100!

Julie xx

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I personally think it depends on a person's level of fitness and their general health. To be super fit and healthy (obviously not having Fibromyalgia), it is surprising how much the human body can sustain and achieve. Remember many cases of Fibromyalgia tend to be stress related or appear to be induced by having trauma to the body by an accident or illness. I am not sure anyone would contract Fibromyalgia just through harsh exercising, just to clarify this point.

At the end of the day some people have predispositions and hereditary links to conditions like Arthritis, so irrespective of general health and fitness they would probably have become arthritic because of the predisposition etc and it wouldn't have had anything to do with them running or doing other sports.