What personality type are you? I am re-blogging this article because I find, personally, that is a very interesting read and I look forward to the following installment, which will give us a little more info about research into Fibromyalgia and Personality traits. Please click the link below to read the article 🙂 Fibromyalgia and […]
Category: invisible illness
How Fibromyalgia is diagnosed is often changing as physicians realise new and different things about the illness. I’d like to share a bit of Fibro history to help us understand just how slow that progress has been before indulging ourselves into the current World of Fibro Diagnosis. Early studies Recorded evidence of medical conditions […]
‘How Physical Therapy can Help Fibromyalgia (sponsored post) – Counting My Spoons’ shared by Julie Ryan is a useful read about exercise and it’s benefits to people with Chronic Pain disorders such as Fibromyalgia. For example, the author of the article Sarah Ross explains ‘how physical Therapy works‘,’types-of-hands on treatments‘ and also, very importantly… ‘Self-Management‘ […]
Link to the original: Fibromyalgia Awareness | Information, Tips, Support, Patient Stories: How on earth do you look sick Dedicated to raising awareness about Fibromyalgia and offer online support. Find fibromyalgia information, news, interviews and tips. – See more at: http://www.fibromyalgiaawareness.com > how on earth do you look sick Fibromyalgia Awareness Contact Want to share […]
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 […]
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 […]
Relaxation and imagery for guided meditation – Places for using your imagination relaxing & tranquil times This is just a selection of pictures of places for using your imagination. For you to view and disappear within while you relax and imagine yourself there. Using your mind you can take a walk along the path and […]
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.