One lady’s account of her battle with Invisible illness – chronic fibro pain & fatigue She says:“What nobody sees is the struggle it takes me to get out of bed each morning” The Mask of Invisible Illness and Fibromyalgia- Finally I’m Home This post was written by Elizabeth of Hope in Pain in Australia, and has been living […]
Category: chronic pain
What are the Symptoms of Fibromyalgia? Since determining what fibromyalgia is, which seems to be an undetermined Chronic Pain Disorder or ‘Central Sensitisation Syndrome’, and a type of illness that it is as a ‘Chronic Illness’, which can involve many symptoms such as ‘widespread musculoskeletal pain’, accompanied by ‘fatigue’, ‘sleep’, ‘memory’ and ‘mood’ issues. We […]
First Published here on 2015/06/05 I have read this and found it to be an interesting concept so am sharing it with you 🙂 However, I personally don’t agree with classifying Fibromyalgia to be ‘the second most common ‘rheumatic’ disorder behind osteoarthritis’ as the article suggests in its opening and ask readers to read this […]
The following post discusses what it is like for people with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) when they are talking on the telephone and the difficulties it can cause them. Article link: Telephone Difficulties with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome If you hate the phone, You’re Not Alone, (Updated March 07, 2015.) By […]
I find pacing is difficult to master but it truly does help with managing day to day tasks to minimize the amount of pain & fatigue. This blog post from ‘blogaboutchronicpain’, (Reflections on Living with Chronic Pain), discusses how to effectively navigate your time and energy by ‘Pacing’ and ‘Spacing’, to avoid overactivity and how […]
How FibroFlutters a support group for people with Fibromyalgia was born.