There are times with Fibromyalgia that I exceed my walking limits. It is actually difficult sometimes because the limit changes. It can be a short distance one day and a decent distance the next. There…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A detailed guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), including its symptoms, causes, and effective treatment strategies to improve energy and well-being.
So You Have a Chronic Illness. Is That a Disability?
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness often raises an immediate and very practical question: does this mean I have a disability? The answer is not as simple as yes or no, and that uncertainty can…
Learning About Disability
Introduction Learning about disability is not just an academic exercise or a matter of social awareness campaigns. It is an ongoing process of understanding how human bodies and minds vary, how societies respond to those…
How do fibromyalgia and chronic illness upend your life?
You’re sitting in the doctor’s office, being told you have an incurable illness. Maybe you have to leave your career, or pull back on your workload, with set accommodations. You can’t live up to being…
A Woman To Be Remembered for Fibromyalgia
Introduction Some lives become memorable not because they are free of struggle, but because of the way struggle is carried, endured, and transformed into meaning. Fibromyalgia is one of those conditions that reshapes daily life…
Unspeakable Pain but Were you Hurt Most?
There is a book whose title I will not tell, written by an author that will remain unnamed, that everyone in the whole wide world made such a gigantic fuss about. Hollywood even made it…
I Am Getting My Fight Back Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is often described as a condition that takes over parts of life quietly but persistently. It does not usually arrive in a dramatic way. Instead, it builds through patterns of pain, fatigue, disrupted sleep,…
My Experience in the Gupta Fibromyalgia Recovery Program
Beginning the Search for Something That Could Help Living with fibromyalgia often creates a long stretch of uncertainty before any clear answers or effective strategies begin to take shape. For a long time, my experience…
Learning How to Manage One Day at a Time: Fibromyalgia
Living With a Condition That Does Not Follow a Schedule Fibromyalgia does not operate on a predictable timetable. It does not announce when symptoms will intensify or when a lighter day might occur. Instead, it…
What to Do About Those Lumps, Bumps and Swellings!
Understanding Why Lumps, Bumps, and Swellings Appear Noticing a lump, bump, or swelling on the body can be unsettling. The immediate thought for many people is concern, but the reality is that most of these…