Fibromyalgia: What’s Your Gut Got to Do With It?

Research suggests that this chronic pain disorder may be connected to digestive health. Certain dietary changes might help alleviate fibromyalgia symptoms. By Kate Jackson Medically Reviewed by Samuel Mackenzie, MD, Phd If you have fibromyalgia and also experience digestive issues, your gut problems may be more than a coincidence. “There’s a definite correlation between gut health and fibromyalgia,”…

People With Fibromyalgia Are Only Understood By People With Fibromyalgia

A friend told me that she had heard two or three colleagues talk about another colleague who had fainted as a result of the side effects of a new drug to treat her fibromyalgia:while she was taking her on a stretcher she said, “No one can be so sick. ”In what seemed to validate my situation,…

Fibromyalgia and cardiac muscle: Fibro pain or heart attack?

If you have had this experience before, you will know that the symptoms around fibromyalgia and the heart can be very scary. Fibromyalgia seems to come with every imaginable pain, including chest pain. Many will go to the emergency room at least once because they think they have a heart attack. This is more likely to happen…

How Arthritis Attacks Your Feet and 11 Ways to Cure Arthritis Pain in Your Foot

If you live with arthritis, you are likely to feel the painful effects on your feet. “The feet are tremendously affected by arthritis,” says Vinicius Domingues, MD, a rheumatologist in Daytona Beach, Florida, and medical advisor to CreakyJoints. In fact, osteoarthritis (OA), the most common type of arthritis, affects the feet of one in six people…

Letter of apology from a doctor to patients with fibromyalgia

By Amanda Shelley I have excuses to do. I would like to apologize to all the patients I saw in my years of emergency care work who had chronic pain due to fibromyalgia or an autoimmune disease. I would like to apologize for not knowing, understanding and, in some cases, not even believing what is…

Fibromyalgia: “It feels like a pain inside the bones”

This syndrome, which is Tuesday, world day, is characterized by chronic pain. Patients feel that treatments and care are not up to par.  Fibromyalgia: “How to have pain inside the bones” Blandine Bouedo used to call her  “H21”  pain. “The other three hours were when I slept. And I slept because I was exhausted, “he   says. This 55-year-old psychiatric nurse has fibromyalgia. A…

The mystery of fibromyalgia was solved: researchers find the main source of pain in blood vessels

Do you suffer from chronic fatigue and muscle pain?  You may have fibromyalgia. It is estimated that 5 million American adults suffer from this condition. Of these adults, 90 percent of the victims are women. Unfortunately, this chronic disease can be extremely difficult to treat. The researchers originally thought that the symptoms were only in the patient’s mind. Because of…