been logging every flare since early May, trigger column and all. two months in i have twelve flares total. six i tagged weather, four i tagged overdid it, two i just wrote unknown bc i couldn’t pick which one it was. thing is the two categories look almost identical on paper.
june 14th, barometric pressure dropped 8 points overnight before a storm rolled in, woke up at a 7 out of 10, tender points lit up like usual, couldn’t get through my shift standing at the counter. june 22nd, no storm anywhere near mobile, but i’d done a full 8 hour shift on my feet plus grocery shopping right after, and i was at a 7 out of 10 by evening with the same exact tender points hurting. if you handed me those two log entries with the dates blacked out i genuinely don’t think i could tell you which one was weather and which was activity. same pain level, same spots, same recovery time, about 36 hours either way before i felt normal again.
my PT keeps telling me pacing only helps the overdoing it flares and there’s nothing you can do about barometric ones except ride it out. fine, except i can’t consistently sort my own data into those two buckets, so how am i supposed to know which advice even applies on a given morning. started wondering if central sensitization just doesn’t care what set it off, the nervous system fires the same alarm either way and my brain backfills a reason after the fact bc it wants an explanation more than the data actually gives one. anyone else find their flare log basically useless for separating weather from overexertion, or is there some detail i’m missing that actually tells them apart for you