How I Describe Fibromyalgia to People Who Have Never Felt It

Fibromyalgia: For those who don’t know Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder that causes strong extensive body pain, hypersensitivity, chronic fatigue and patient is not able to sleep properly. More women are affected but can affect people of any gender or age. Approximately 10 million people in the United States are suffering from fibromyalgia. The Diagnosis…

Driving problem associated with Fibromyalgia and their solutions

Breakdown: Peoples with fibromyalgia cannot walk, drive or bike very far without pain. Getting a ride is mostly not an easy task for the Fibro community. Driving requires a person to sit in a fixed position and move in some specific ways that may worsen the pain. When you are suffering from fibromyalgia, travel is also daunting…

Fibromyalgia and Dental Issues

Fibromyalgia and Dental Issues Do you hate your dentist? Well you are not alone, especially if you have FM symptoms. Get professional advice on surviving dental treatment with least FM pain. Some get a terrifying rush when seeing the words “dentist visit” on the calendar. But when you have FM, these appointments can be more…

What Does Fibromyalgia Feels Like?

Fibromyalgia is a Constant pain that never goes that makes you feel like crying. Living with fibromyalgia is be like a Never ever being out of pain in some part of your body or your entire body is bruised. Almost like you’ve been sleeping on a hard floor and someone was kicking you all over. I…

The Seven Dwarfs of Fibromyalgia

Grumpy  Lack of sleep can turn the brightest ray of sunshine into little more than a damp squib. A cocktail of drugs aimed at making your life more tolerable can also scarily change the way you interact with others. Whether its the withdrawal symptoms of coming off a medication, side effects of starting new tablets or…

A TENS Unit for Fibromyalgia Pain

What is TENS? Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a therapy sometimes used to treat localized or regional pain. During TENS therapy, electrodes deliver electrical impulses to nearby nerve pathways which can help control or relieve some types of pain. TENS is often used to treat osteoarthritis, chronic pain and postoperative pain. A personal TENS…

Hyperreactive Brain Network May Be Cause of Chronic Pain in Fibromyalgia

Hypersensitivity in fibromyalgia Hypersensitivity in fibromyalgia isn’t the same things as being “too sensitive” in the way people usually mean when they throw that phrase around. It’s not that we’re emotionally fragile, it’s that our physiological response is bigger than most people’s, and over the years researchers have learned more about how the brains of…

Why there are so many different symptoms of fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia cause chronic pain to its patients for their entire lifetimes. This pain can be in different parts of the body. It has many symptoms but the fibro symptoms list is different for different people. Although a large population is affected by it, the consistency of symptoms is rare. Curious about this, we asked our Facebook community “Living…

“Fibromyalgia is NOT …” !

The main cause that misunderstanding and myth often encircle the chronic condition that causes pain and exhaustion and every person who has fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) experiences it in a different way. Education is a key to effectively manage symptoms. Fibromyalgia is a chronic and untreatable condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, chronic exhaustion, brain fog…

Ear Problems and Fibromyalgia: How to Deal with Ear Issues?

BY JULIA NELSON Many fibromyalgia patients often complain about having issues with their ears. Are these two issues related? The problem is that most people who are being affected by fibromyalgia often feed horrible and they often tend to think that they just have another problem to deal with rather than this being in direct correlation…