The phrase “tender points” isn’t something you hear every day. But if you have fibromyalgia, you may be familiar with those words. In fact, your doctor may have used tender points to diagnose you. What Are Tender Points? In 1990, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) introduced criteria for diagnosing people with fibromyalgia. Part of the criteria included 18 possible…
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS) and fibromyalgia are two very closely related disorders that often get mistaken for each other. RSDS is more commonly known as “complex regional pain syndrome. When the two disorders meet in one person, life can become very difficult and painful. While there are treatments for both disorders, understanding their differences is important in…
Research is done to study the impact of early life events on a person’s later life. It was to measure how much the childhood environment and events affect the psychological life of a person. It is the disorder that not only increases the sensitivity of pain but has a number of other co-morbidities. In the world of health and medicine,…
Recently, one of our Facebook followers asked why pain from fibromyalgia would disappear while in the water. She simply went swimming in a lake and noticed that her pain was gone while she was in the water. A commenter replied that she swims once per week in cold water and that relieves her fibro pain as well….
av Julia Nelson National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, som øker bevisstheten om en kronisk lidelse som påvirker anslagsvis fem millioner voksne i USA, og er preget av utbredt smerte og ømhet, ofte ledsaget av tretthet, nedsatt hukommelse og andre fysiske problemer. Tilstanden kan oppstå med andre kroniske smertetilstander, som slitasjegikt, revmatoid artritt og lupus. Den eksakte årsaken…
by Julia Nelson National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, which raises awareness for a chronic disorder that impacts an estimated five million adults in the United States, and is characterized by widespread pain and tenderness, often accompanied by fatigue, impaired memory and other physical issues. The condition may occur with other chronic pain conditions, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid…
av Julia Nelson En av de største problemene med å ha fibromyalgi er smerten som føles i elleve forskjellige trykkpunkter i hele kroppen. Men det mest merkbare man føler å ha fibromyalgi er fysisk smerte og personer med fibromyalgi lider også av en annen type smerte, og det er den følelsesmessige siden av ting. De sanne…
by Julia Nelson One of the biggest issues of having fibromyalgia is the pain that is felt in eleven different pressure points throughout the body. But the most noticeable thing one feels having fibromyalgia is physical pain and people with fibromyalgia also suffer from another kind of pain and that is the emotional side of things….
av Julia Nelson Tenk deg hvor vanskelig det er å akseptere at ingenting ser ut til å fikse tilstanden som skjer i kroppen din uavhengig av hvor mye tid du bruker og hvor mye penger du bruker på leger, avtaler og medisiner. Hvis du er heldig får du en dag den nøyaktige diagnosen og det er…
BY JULIA NELSON Imagine that how hard it is to accept that nothing seems to fix the condition going on in your body regardless of how much time you are spending and how much excessive amounts of money you are spending on doctors, appointments and medication. If you are lucky enough, one day you get…