September 27, 2007 – 11:07 am
I’ve been in a rut of sorts lately.
See, usually I’m pretty highly functional for a fibromite (thanks in no small part to tramadol). But the last few days I’ve been feeling increasingly run down and … off, I guess, is the only word to describe it. (Remember our discussion about how hard it […]
September 24, 2007 – 1:05 pm
I’m still in crunch-mode - hopefully will have time to post a more in-depth article or two later this week. But I just found this amazing comment on Flickr’s Simple Pleasures With Fibromyalgia/Coping Skills thread, which goes over some really useful information about sleep - how to get more of it and the right kind. […]
September 17, 2007 – 1:36 pm
Sometimes, our wellness (or level of wellness, or at least the extent to which we hurt) depends on our ability to adequately communicate our answer to a seemingly simple question: “How are you feeling?”
Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Pain
It’s not so easy to answer when you hurt all the time. There’s the […]
September 7, 2007 – 3:26 pm
Is there anything worse than a flareup of fibromyalgia? Probably - but in the throes of one, the patient would be hard-pressed to name one.
The worst flareup I ever experienced came on suddenly at a grocery store. I’ll never forget it. I started the shopping trip a little tired but nothing out of the […]
September 4, 2007 – 10:43 am
Sometimes, it’s really hard to do this - the blogging about fibromyalgia thing, I mean. I don’t want to merely recount statistics, cover treatments and new studies and trials. I want to tell stories. And unfortunately, or fortunately, that means coming face to face on a daily basis with the hell that this illness brings […]
September 1, 2007 – 8:33 am
This post at a blog called “koo talks” bothers me, and I need to say something about it.
The author, attributed as Groshan Fabiola, writes:
Due to the fact that most medical treatments are unable to overcome fibromyalgia, the disorder is considered to be incurable. However, this belief is far from the truth. Although fibromyalgia is a […]
August 31, 2007 – 2:52 am
For those of you who’ve just been diagnosed with fibromyalgia (fibro for short), the world might look a little different to you right now. And you may well feel that a stranger has suddenly taken over your body, thanks to the sometimes off-the-wall reactions some of us have to finally hearing the diagnosis.
I’ve identified in […]
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