Well I just spent a week in a treatment centre for co-dependency and I must say by the end of the 6 days I was not feeling the fibro pain as much. Now I was not exerting myself and cleaning and cooking, so I am curious to know which came first! Also, my IBS was not an issue at all either. Curious!? Is it the fact that I had 3 square meals a day and not my regular stress from home or is it because I was not having to do the regular stuff and someone was making my meals and therefore no stress at all, (except working through all my co-dependency crap!) Not sure! And I'm not sure how to follow up with that and see, other than go back to the treatment centre :-)

For anyone reading this who does not know what a co-dependent is, because I certainly did not before my doctor and counselor placed that label on me it means from the Webster's Dictionary:

Definition of CODEPENDENCY

: a psychological condition or a relationship in which a person is controlled or manipulated by another who is affected with a pathological condition (as an addiction to alcohol or heroin); broadly: dependence on the needs of or control by another

 

Now this is definitely me. I have seen a pattern all my life. So which came first, the Fibro or the Co-Dependency. If you ever enter a treatment program, it is probably going to come to light that it was the co-dependency. But that's another blog

 

Back to my being symptom free from Fibro for 6 days.... It was a blessing. And it has happened many times in my life before. When life seems to go good, I can be relatively symptom free... and that is only in looking back with a different set of eyes. Oh I might still have IBS or the occasional painful day, but other than that not as severe as I have been as of late. That is something I will have to look at ...and try and see a pattern.

 

I am still digesting it all... and still trying to understand this wonderful (insert sarcasm here) condition that I have... and every layer that I pull back I discover something else.

 

Be patient with me, and I will try and be patient with myself...