well, that didn't work...

I have been feeling wonderful lately. Wonderful as in zero pain, totally limber and like my body is a normal body that can function on its own. This has been pretty exciting to me. I chalked it up to the exercise I have been doing every day and the aqua fit I will eventually get back to when I'm actually at the office on a Monday and Wednesday...So on Sunday night, feeling like I could leap tall building in a single bound, I thought, "Why not try to decrease my 20mg dose of Elavil to 10mg? Maybe I don't need it anymore because I am exercising regularly and losing weight and I feel BRAND NEW!"Turns out that this isn't a viable option just yet.I felt stiff yesterday evening but  I was chalking that up to having increased my push-ups to 15 a day and my body getting used to it. But by midnight last night, I woke up with my body on FIRE and the pain was so sharp that I had been having nightmares about being in pain.Fun times.So I got up and took that second pill and came back to bed. My body is aching today, sort of like when you have the flu or if you've just fallen down some stairs and you feel bruised everywhere.I'm sort of disappointed I need to still take my tiny amount of medication every night and how quickly my inflammation flares up without it. Sigh. I guess I'm not quite ready yet. Although it might take a week or two of pain without the pills for my body to adjust. I just don't have the time/patience to test that out right now. I'll be back at work tomorrow (have been home due to repairs/renovations) and I know I can't function in the office when I get into these flare ups.So I will continue to exercise and strengthen my muscles and lose weight and try again in the summer if I am still feeling 100% like I was.Fibromyalgia is a strange beast and I don't want to have to feed her pills, I have been managing it almost completely with the food, exercise and other changes I have made. I was feeling NORMAL for the first time in a long time. I want it to be like that without pills, as minimal as they are.I am also trying to research a natural alternative to my taking Prevacid every morning. I have horrible acid reflux and I think that my pain started around the time I started taking this other medication regularly. I can't go 24 hours without one in the morning or I throw up fire. Bleh. I just know that taking this long-term does crazy things to stomach acid that you actually NEED. But this is another medication I can't experiment with while at work because it's almost crippling without taking it. So... what do to? I am down to only taking these two medications (with the occasional Advil for headaches or a migraine med when it's really bad). I'd like to me medication free if I can. It's a goal.Meanwhile, I will attempt to get through my push-ups today, but I don't know how well that will go due to my skin hurting to the touch. I WILL prevail though. Just need to wait for the workman to leave my basement. ;)