By Norah Wickerson Our personality can increase our chances of developing an addiction to alcohol, drugs or gambling, or becoming an ‘adrenaline junkie’ for extreme sports or computer games. Could our personality also predispose us to develop Fibromyalgia? We often think of our personality as our ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ reinforced in the adage ‘finding our…
Fibromyalgia is defined as A condition which causes wide spread pain and tiredness Yet there is so much more to it So many things we wish you knew We wish you knew That we wish we could be happy and carefree again That the pain steals the lives we used to have What it…
When Lady Gaga announced she had fibromyalgia in 2017, it helped raise awareness on what is often a very misunderstood condition. “Very often fibromyalgia patients go from doctor to doctor searching for an answer,” says Dr. Elizabeth Volkmann, assistant professor of medicine in the division of Rheumatology at UCLA. “Doctors will look for lupus or rheumatoid…
Fibromyalgia, a silent thief, Stealing peace and causing grief, It grips you tight, consumes your soul, And takes away the life you know. Invisible to the naked eye, Yet, it makes the strongest person sigh, Chronic pain and fatigue the norm, As life becomes a constant storm. The aches that linger, day and…
As I write this, bolts of electric pain shimmer down my right leg and up toward my shoulder as my joints throb in time with my heart. Every time I stand, my vision kaleidoscopes to black and back again. And today is a good day. To look at me, I’m just another 35-year-old white woman,…
By Sarah Warburton A few weeks back, I caught Covid for the first time. It hit me hard and recovery is proving to be rather slow. I thought I’d write about my experience of having Covid along with fibromyalgia and some of the things that helped me, as it might prove useful to other readers…
Av Sarah Warburton For noen uker siden fanget jeg Covid for første gang. Det slo meg hardt, og restitusjonen viser seg å gå ganske sakte. Jeg tenkte jeg skulle skrive om min erfaring med å ha Covid sammen med fibromyalgi og noen av tingene som hjalp meg, da det kan vise seg å være nyttig…
Mens jeg skriver dette, skimrer bulter av elektrisk smerte nedover høyre ben og opp mot skulderen min mens leddene mine banker i takt med hjertet mitt. Hver gang jeg står, blir synet mitt kaleidoskop svart og tilbake igjen. Og i dag er en god dag. For å se på meg er jeg bare en annen…
Da Lady Gaga kunngjorde at hun hadde fibromyalgi i 2017, bidro det til å øke bevisstheten om det som ofte er en svært misforstått tilstand. “Svært ofte går fibromyalgipasienter fra lege til lege og søker etter et svar,” sier Dr. Elizabeth Volkmann , assisterende professor i medisin ved avdelingen for revmatologi ved UCLA. “Leger vil…
Fibromyalgi er definert som En tilstand som forårsaker utbredt smerte og tretthet Likevel er det så mye mer Så mange ting vi skulle ønske du visste Vi skulle ønske du visste det At vi skulle ønske vi kunne bli lykkelige og bekymringsløse igjen At smerten stjeler livene vi før hadde Hvordan det er å…
