Living as a Fibro Woman
Living with fibromyalgia can often leave you feeling like someone or something has invaded your body. You react in ways that aren’t normal for you, often overreacting, lashing out, or pushing loved ones away. Inconsistent energy levels and chronic pain often result…
When you wake up in a fibromyalgia flare—with that feeling that you can’t move, as if a 500-pound weight has been dropped on you in your sleep—you can’t help but wonder how you can possibly face the day. On mornings like this,…
What to Know About Fibromyalgia Like many diseases, the cause of fibromyalgia is a mystery. There is no known cure or test to detect the disease. What is known is fibromyalgia affects approximately five million Americans age 18 and older, mostly women….
Anyone who lives with fibromyalgia has struggled to try to explain the chronic pain and fatigue they experience to their friends and loved ones, and even to strangers. Explaining fibromyalgia is no easy task. Sometimes just putting into words what you feel…
Fibromyalgia comes with three major types of pain sensations. Hyperalgesia: this is our major pain as part of the syndrome itself. It is an abnormal sensitivity to pain. The crux of our pain dysfunction. Allodynia: With allodynia, there is a triggered pain response…
Musculoskeletal Care, November 21, 2012 of 40 multiple choice questions was posted online with the objective to poll a large sample of adults with fibromyalgia about the impact on their significant other, friends and children. Questions included were regarding their symptoms, their…
I am in a Fibro Flare. The pain arching through me right now is difficult to describe, to be honest. It is a deep, bone-deep, throbbing ache that is at around an 8 on the pain scale. It is extremely distracting. It…
A 2-year long study In the Journal of Pain regarding Fibromyalgia has found results that suggest that Fibromyalgia ebbs and flows. Makes me wonder. There are years where I wonder if treatment is failing me because things are so much worse and…
I wish I had been prepared for the impact or what was going to happen in my life from chronic illness being newly diagnosed. Realistically. I had a firm belief back then I could limit the impact by choosing a specific job…
I have been struggling with work lately. And by lately I mean always. Always struggling to function through the pain. Always not quite doing it. My psychologist said well I cannot compare apples to oranges. I cannot compare myself to people doing…