Coping with Fibromyalgia in Home
It’s early December and that means we’re about to crash straight into the holiday season. As the shortest days of the year approach, many of us are anticipating gluttonous feasting, exchanging gifts, enjoying the company of family and friends and
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My Christmas present one year was an evil cold. I had been lucky the past several years not to encounter any viruses. After reading about the negative experiences of other bloggers with FM or CFS who have caught a flu
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After a gluttonous Christmas one year, my husband and I looked at ourselves and decided we had to go on a diet. Things had been spiraling downward for a while. The primary factor was that I had been diagnosed with
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Chronic illness hurts all over, and that can extend to your budget. It’s not polite to talk about money, and that can lead to a cone of silence around this difficult subject. When I developed fibromyalgia five years ago, I
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Are There Negatives to ‘Think Positive’ Advice for People with Chronic Conditions? I was in my physiotherapist’s office when she probed an unexpectedly painful spot. This was the year my body began to fall apart and I had gone to
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Interested in natural treatments for fibromyalgia or chronic pain?Learn about how tart cherries, one of the top antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods, can reduce pain and alleviate insomnia. Many people with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions are interested in effective
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that we may not all like the same music, but we all like music. Our favourite artists help us celebrate the good times, express our emotions in the difficult times, and while away the
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I have been given this product as part of a product review through the Chronic Illness Bloggers network. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company. I
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Is Food Really Medicine? Is there such a thing as a diet to treat fibromyalgia? While there is no consensus on a single diet to treat FMS, research does point us in a few intriguing directions– specifically, symptoms improvements from
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If you have fibromyalgia, could massage be the effective, natural and drug-free treatment you have been looking for to treat your muscle pain? If there is one hallmark symptom of fibromyalgia, it has to be sore, aching muscles. Chronic body-wide
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