Explaining Fibromyalgia Pain

Punching bag....It feels like you're the bag. You know? The brand new heavy punching bag. The new one they put up new years morning. Then, the furry of a thousand and one resolutions come down on you for days, weeks and months on end. Torn, bruised, busted, battered, bested, beaten and just worn out. That's how i can describe fibro today

Mine acts up with the weather change, so every season brings it's own little version of hell lol

Mine gets worse according to barometric pressure .. low pressure kills me

I basically describe it the way you have, it's like flue ache and bruises from the inside (and feels like bruises on the outside, too, but there's no actual bruise). The biggest hurdle I've found is that most people understand acute illnesses but can't empathize with chronic illnesses. They're used to it going away quickly, so they downplay chronic illness because they can't imagine that just being life.

Makes complete sense. I read years ago an explanation of FMS that I still use. "The pain of FMS is like a stereo with the volume knob all the way up & someone broke the knob off."

I get a combination of all of these. I am especially prone to flares when I overdo or when I injure myself.

I get that, but I also get: sharp pains feeling of being in a vice tingling/buzzing

I get a lot of burning nerve pain too sometimes

Definitely! I liken it to doing the hardest workout and the aches that go with it is what the Fibro aches feel like for me.