The course has started!

Having done the phone session which involved talking about my views on Fibro and what I hoped to achieve, goals I wanted to set, etc, I started the course properly on Tuesday.


After a' getting to know you' and ground rules  setting, we were invited to name all the symptoms we suffered from and their impact on our lives. I ended up making the group laugh after looking at the white board smothered with words with the comment that if we were animals the vet would probably put us to sleep. Naughty of me but looking at that board with no space left to write anything more on it was very depressing. Next task was to fill in our pain charts, physically abilities....Can you climb a flight of stairs...our choices ranged from one to ten, one being it was easy to climb the stairs, ten being extremely difficulty. I had to go for ten :-( .  Most of the questions were scored like that. Then we were told what subjects would be covered, exercise, sleep, relationships, employment, pain management, depression, and all that good stuff.




Our homework for the week to to try and absorb the information we took on board, write out our goals, however impossible they may be, what we think we are likely to achieve and what we are afraid of not achieving. 

I start next week :-)

Well my Pain management course starts next week. The first session is just feeling in questionnaires about pain, activity levels, etc so that the three main people running this course have a general overview of where I am at with things. Then there will be 10 weeks of 3 hour sessions. I will miss two as I shall be on holiday but the Pain Psychologist says the two I miss are exercise related where the physiotherapist is going to be encouraging people to exercise despite the pain. Apparently I need the reverse, I have to scale down my exercise. I am, I am told, very much in the minority here.


So I shall be talking about my PM sessions, what happens, etc.  It is all part of my journey.