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Hi there, how dost thou be?

Is fibromyalgia what I think it is? That really scary mutation where any damaged tisue turns to bone?

Hey, thanks for taking the time!

No, fibromyalgia DOES affect muscles, but it can't turn them to bone. That's impossible. It affects the muscles the same way that arthritis affects joints. Lots of pain, with no easy relief from drugs.

The worst thing is, its worsened by lack of sleep. You know how your body reboots while you sleep? Well, someone with fibromyalgia doesn't get the "reboot" correct, and so you wake up as sore as when you went to bed. It's a vicious cycle, and the worse you sleep, the worse you feel, and vice-versa.

Like arthritis, the best preventative for the symptoms, not the disease itself- since there is no cure, is simply diet, exercise, and plenty of rest.

It's just a cruel joke that one of the symptoms of fibromyalgia is sleep deprivation.

Well, here it is at 1:30 am again. Think I will TRY to sleep.

Oh no... it isn't impossible for tissue to be turned to bone by the bodies own repair system, it is just that it occurs in people with a very rare genetic disorder.

I can empathise with lack of sleep I finally got some last night, and didn't wake up until 4:30 this afternoon.

It must be rare, I've never heard of it.
Sounds horrifying.
Hope you get some rest.

Haven't been to sleep yet, might have a quick knapp after going to the cinema. I get really absorbed into films, I get inside them, which whilst I'm doing it doesn't make me drain but after the buzzz that a really well made and well written and of course performed film wears off it catches up with me... Of course if a film is less good then it's less of drain because you just don't inside the film in the first place.

I really think it must take a great deal of strength to deal with anything like that be it fibromalagia or the tissue to bone desease... Which I know exists, I've seen people with it, but can't find anything on it on google.