Coping with Fibromyalgia in Home
The world lost a woman yesterday.A boy lost his grandmother, three people lost their mother and a man lost his wife.This woman was a pistol, tough and strong and a force to be reckoned with.I grew up with her tails
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Last week I found myself in the worst flare of my life. After a month of mounting stress, marital grumblings and the sheer psychosis of living chronically ill I hit bottom. Bottom when you have Fibromyalgia really hurts. So I
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There is a book whose title I will not tell, written by an author that will remain unnamed, that everyone in the whole wide world made such a gigantic fuss about. Hollywood even made it into a movie! And all
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Recently I posed a question in Fibromyalgia Support Group, our support site on Facebook. I am looking for more information about this Fibro-monster, but not what I can pull up in a quick Google search or another strange set of
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A thought just suddenly popped in my head, seemingly from nowhere, and I am finally able to put my finger on exactly what the stigma of Fibromyalgia brings to the table. See its not that we don’t want to get
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I had an extremely eye-opening and revealing thing happen to me this weekend. Whilst I was dealing with some minor family upset, I Fibro-crashed. All my energy had been spent and exhaustion socked me square in the jaw. I became
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Either that, or this terrible impatience and frustration and I kinda have to admit, pure anger pouring out of me is the premonition of a flare. But I have to say all I do is look around at the wreckage
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I had a strange and riveting dream the other night. When I woke from it I was confused and unsure what it meant. Maybe I had been watching Project Runway recently or something. But anyway, I was at a small
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I can say the 1 good thing about my uber intense type A personality is that when I got sick there was no doubt in my husband’s head I was sick. Watching me struggle up the stairs with a laundry
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I have had Fibromyalgia since mid 2006, acquired during a long bout with a viral infection in my central nervous system. I used Neurontin, Percocet, Cymbalta and Lyrica in the following 4 year after to manage my pain. While on
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