Have you ever thought that the way you feel and experience the pain is the same as others does, but everyone copes with the chronic pain differently. Everyone has its own strategies to feel better when in extreme pain. Some feelings are common in all of us fighting the immense storm of pain. Chronic illness…
6 Painless Fibromyalgia Symptoms That Often Go Unnoticed
Fibromyalgia pain can easily derail your entire life. It’s an agonizing and seemingly endless experience that leaves you unable to do the things others take for granted. But while this pain is the most noticeable symptom and the one that usually sends people to the doctor for the first time, there are a large number of painless…
Lady Gaga’s Netflix Documentary puts Fibromyalgia Front and Center
BY JULIA NELSON In a lot of ways, Lady Gaga’s new Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two, is your standard pop star documentary, in the vein of Madonna’s Truth or Dare or Katy Perry’s Part of Me. It follows her around as she’s writing and recording songs and music videos for her album Joanne, and preparing for concert appearances (including her performance at Super Bowl XLI)….
If you love someone with fibromyalgia, keep in mind that they suffer from severe pain that varies from day to day and hour to hour.
If you love someone with fibromyalgia experience severe pain that varies from day to day and from hour to hour. We can not predict that. So we want you to understand that sometimes things have to be canceled at the last minute and it bothers us as much as you. We want you to know that we…
Lady Gaga Fibromyalgia Announcement Gives Voice To Millions of Patients
BY JULIA NELSON Logan, Utah. Statement from Sharon Waldrop, Vice President of the National Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Association on Lady Gaga’s recent announcement that she suffers from the illness: “We commend Lady Gaga for the incredibly brave act of revealing her fibromyalgia diagnosis. By sharing her story with the world, she is giving voice to…
Fibromyalgia and Swelling
Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal condition, followed by fibromyalgia. More often than not, fibromyalgia is misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Characteristics of this disorder/condition include muscle and joint pain/tingling, fatigue, and many other symptoms. Quite often, individuals who have fibromyalgia also experience social isolation and depression. Many also experience both swelling and fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is very difficult…
10 True Causes of Fibromyalgia Your Doctor Will Never Tell You About
It is estimated that fibromyalgia affects almost 6 million or 1 in 50 people. Fibromyalgia is classically characterized by chronic pain, particularly muscle aches, fatigue, trouble sleeping, brain fog or cognitive impairment, depression, and painful tender points throughout the body. Conventional medicine has yet to uncover the cause of fibromyalgia and only offers to treat symptoms with…
16 Ways to Imagine What Fibromyalgia Disorder Feels Like
BY JULIA NELSON 1. “Imagine the worst sickness, fatigue and pain and your head is in a deep fog where it made you think to go to the hospital. Now imagine feeling like that every day and knowing if you go to the hospital they will likely find nothing wrong and send you home and tell you…
43 Fibromyalgia Symptoms – Anyone with muscle pain should read this
This article was written by Julie Hambleton, fitness and nutrition expert and co-founder of the Taste Archives. In the United States, between three and six million people, or one in fifty, suffer from fibromyalgia, a debilitating syndrome characterized by pain experienced throughout the body with no obvious cause. Although people often don’t get better with…
Fibromyalgia is now considered a lifelong disease of the central nervous system
Fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis and is still largely unrecognized. It is now believed to be a lifelong disorder of the central nervous system responsible for increasing pain in the body. Daniel Clauw, MD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, examined the neurological basis of fibromyalgia in a plenary lecture…