The Fibro Follies

Helium is a site that collects and publishes articles from writers all over the world, on every topic imaginable. As you can imagine, some of the quality of the articles can be questionable. But I’ve done the weeding out for you, and I can recommend the following articles on Helium as good resources for educating yourself or others about fibro - what it is, what it feels like, how it’s treated, and what the current state of research is.

Note: this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of the absolute “best” of all Helium articles on fibro - just four that I can ethically recommend to you of the ones that I’ve seen. They’re all collected under the general topic: Fibromyalgia: symptoms, treatment and associated conditions explained.

1. “I have pain all over. Advil and Tylenol don’t help very much …” so say the patients that come to author and doctor Erich Rosenberger, M.D..
2. Linda Steinbiser’s daughter was diagnosed first, over ten years ago, which may have helped her daughter recognize the same symptoms in Linda. Here’s her article, complete with some good advice about dealing with the fallout fibro brings.
3. Luelle Smith writes in this short article about her experience with conservative, non-pharmacological treatments for her fibro.
4. This article was written by Judy Waller, who doesn’t have fibro but spastic cerebral palsy. However, a conversation with a friend with fibro led Judy to discover that the alternative treatments they were following had beneficial effect for both. Read about her regimen here.

A note of warning, however: remember that every body is different - literally. Your physical chemistry may not react well to some treatment regiment someone else swears by. Some so-called natural remedies can even do more harm than good. If you have a question about a treatment you’d like to try, do your research (on trusted sites only, please) and consider bringing it up to your doctor, if you have a good medical professional on your team who takes alternative treatments seriously and is willing to be open minded about new regimens.

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