Each year the FMPSC holds a contest to mark May12, International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Check out R.E.S.C.I.N.D. for more information about FM Awareness day.

For our 2000 contest, we invited wallabiees to submit words or phrases that they or their family or friends use to refer to how their fibro affects them. 

     Like: fibro fog for that fuzzy state of mind we sometimes have, 
     or fibero optics for the blurred vision, 
     or fogot for when the fog makes you forget things (like the 'r' in forgot!) 

Here are the entries and the winners:

fibro-dextrous: neither hand works

fibro breeze: the one I trip over all the time

feeble frog:  My five year-old grandson, Eric, would hear the family referring to my fibro fog on many occasions. One day, he said, "Grandmom, are you still a 'feeble frog'?" (3rd place - Bobbi)

elephants dancing on my body:  when i am in flare

fibromites:  an easy handle for our group and all our fellow sufferers.

sniglets:  when I fumble my words

fibro funk:  how I feel on those days when nothing satisfies, when the pain is not too bad, fog is fairly thin, but for whatever reason I just don't feel good

fibrotic-  when I feel like I'm being controlled by my symptoms.   (more than usual)

B.D.: life before diagnosis and A.D.: life after diagnosis

Fibritching: what  my sweetie says I do when I am in a Fibro mood (1st place - Carlton)

Lumberelves:  When the pain begins in my wrists, ankles, or knees, I "picture" these two little elves dressed like Paul Bunyan and using a two-sided saw, they are quite merrily sawing my bones! Back and forth, back and forth--the saw must be very dull, for they never finish the job!

fibrometer (like barometer): the intense pain I feel when the weather changes (2nd place - Debil)



holographic bruises.  They are always deeper and more painful than they look

achy breaky [fill in body part].  Don't think this one needs defining
:)


fibro phrases: when you leave words and phrases out of sentences


fibro head:  nasty headaches that come creeping up from the upper
back/shoulders area


fibramnesia:  when I have twenty minute conversations, hang up, and
can't remember a thing about the conversation


Fibro-frommige: the act of 'frommeling' in a drawer for something and
realising you don't have a clue what you're looking for anymore.


Fibro-daggers: the look I give my doctor when he goes to press on my
worst tender points (in the upper chest).


Fibro-mammogram: need I say more ? Sure thing to elicit a primordial
scream and give me a good week of chest pain.


Fibrotruckitis: where is that truck that ran over me last night ?


Fibro-why-did-I-do-that: what you say when you did more than you know you should have and are paying for it big time. Or when you snap at a loved one for no reason.


Fibro-bunny: the things that take on a life of their own in the house
of anyone with FMS.


Fibro-ignore-it-and-it-will-go-away: the best front line philosophy for
living with Fms.


Fibro-fedup: When you have had it with FMS!


If you have any ideas for a contest, or would like to help out with a contest, please contact us at:  contests@fmpsc.org

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