Hi again Mooks,
My myositis problems are painful but, above all, it's an intense feeling of weakness and that weakness comes on when I try and use my muscles - for example if I try and hold my arms above my head or when trying to get up from chairs, climb stairs etc.
It's extremely difficult to describe as there is pain but, as I say, I think the weakness is the main feeling.
I also get a bruised type pain in my muscles but that seems to occur more from active disease activity and I decribe it more as "inflammation" - whether it is due to lupus or myositis I don't know.
Sorry, I can't help more,
Katharine
My myositis problems are painful but, above all, it's an intense feeling of weakness and that weakness comes on when I try and use my muscles - for example if I try and hold my arms above my head or when trying to get up from chairs, climb stairs etc.
It's extremely difficult to describe as there is pain but, as I say, I think the weakness is the main feeling.
I also get a bruised type pain in my muscles but that seems to occur more from active disease activity and I decribe it more as "inflammation" - whether it is due to lupus or myositis I don't know.
Sorry, I can't help more,
Katharine