I asked my friend Beverly to write a guest blog about a pelvic floor dysfunction - a topic that has affected both of us. She found that physical therapy improved her pelvic floor dysfunction. Unfortunately, I saw the same physical therapist without the great results. Our wedding night … [Read more...]
Symptoms
Posts discussing various symptoms related to Fibromyalgia, or just symptoms I may be experiencing.
Fibromyalgia and Abnormal Cerebral Bloodflow
Anyone with a chronic pain condition understands that pain takes your attention away from other (more important things). This study shows that the pain is not just figuratively taking your attention away, but is literally doing so by re-routing your cognitive blood-flow. The study evaluated cerebral … [Read more...]
Is tracking your pain a mistake?
Health.com had an article on 13 mistakes that Fibromyalgia patients make; the first mistake was "not tracking your pain". They suggest that you should keep a pain diary to be able to better assess improvements in your health. Since "patients are always in pain so it's hard to judge when things get … [Read more...]
Chronic Migraines and Cluster Headaches
Migraines have been on my mind a lot lately, both literally and figuratively. I started another period of cluster headaches about a month ago, and as I've talked with friends about my migraines I realized that I'm often finding myself defending my migraines (at least it feels that way). The truth is … [Read more...]
Relationship Between a Positive Attitude and Fibromyalgia Symptoms
A study of 735 Fibromyalgia patients, examined their affect (mood), breaking them into four sub-groups and examining the correlation between affect and symptoms. The four groups were Healthy (low negative affect/ high positive affect) Depressive (high negative affect / low positive … [Read more...]
4 Interesting Tricks to Help You Sleep
The joy of Fibromyalgia and Insomnia is that I am always looking for a trick to help me sleep. I've tried counting sheep, I've optimized my sleep hygiene, I take warm epson salt baths, and the magic answer still eludes me. In my search I've come across some very interesting tricks for sleep, that … [Read more...]
Fibromyalgia and Celiac Symptoms Overlap
Overlap in Fibromyalgia and Celiac Disease Symptoms Fibromyalgia isn't considered an intestinal illness, although many with fibromyalgia do also have digestive symptoms or irritable bowel syndrome and some have been diagnosed with other digestive disorders. However, the overlaop in fibromyalgia and … [Read more...]
Did You Fall Down? Fibromyalgia Fall Risk
A 2013 study followed 18 people with Fibromyalgia for 6 months. Guess what. 17 of them reported falling down. On average they fell twice during the six months, and nearly fell three times. Are you surprised? I'm not. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd followed 18 healthy people for six months … [Read more...]
Learn to Control Your Pain and Flares
At this point anyone with a chronic illness knows that stress increases their flares (or likelihood of a flare). But, are you creating your own flares, and the stress that creates them? You could be controlling both the stress and the flares. I know it's hard to imagine that we actually have any … [Read more...]
Sunday Inspiration: Acute Pain vs Chronic Pain
Each Sunday I share something from another blog or website that made me really think. This week I'm sharing a post from Kate, The Almost Great, on the topic of acute pain vs chronic pain. She dislocated her knee and the responses she got were interesting, as was her post. Here's a … [Read more...]
