A comprehensive guide on chronic pain, its causes, symptoms, and effective management strategies to improve your quality of life.
By: Dr Alexa James Living with Fibromyalgia is challenging. We really need researchers to get on with this weak condition, which appears to be advancing on the basis of several factors, attention and time, and to fully find out how Fibro works and the best way to treat symptoms. Doctors have just treated the symptoms and thought that it would be enough to control it, but it doesn’t work long-term. In the past, fibromyalgia tended…
By: Dr Alexa James Fibromyalgia cannot, of course, text the people who live with it, but it could look like that if it did. It was thus a hypothetical question that we asked to share what a text conversation with fibromyalgia might look like in our Facebook community. Many people talk and we have compiled a list of few messages for you. Here is what community share with us: 1st Warrior Share Their Fibro Conversation.…
By: Dr. Alexa James We experience hundreds, thousands and hundreds of tiny movements every day in our everyday lives. We probably don’t even think about most of that. We have natural instincts and reflexes. We have tasks and tasks every day. We’re working, we’re playing, we’re training. We are breathing in, we are exhaling. Even before we get out of bed we wake up in the morning and spend another day facing. In the night (or…
By: Dr Alexa James The main cause, which often circles misunderstanding and myth around the chronic condition causing pain and exhaustion, is experienced by everyone with fibromyalgia syndrome. Education is a key to managing symptoms effectively. Fibromyalgia is a chronic, untreatable condition that can affect between three and six percent of the world’s population, characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, chronic exhaustion, brain fog, and sleep disorder. Since fibromyalgia was only recognized officially some decades ago,…
By: Dr Alexa James Very often, people do not understand what Fibromyalgia is like, and other chronic, invisible diseases that cause chronic pain. In their lives they have experienced constant pain, so many have somehow, but they have never had to deal with long-term pain. I tried to search for the “official” pain labels for different pain types I felt but could not find a label with a proper description for them all. I found…
By: Dr Alexa James Fibromyalgia has changed me in many different ways, most often, I don’t feel like my own age and some people think that I either don’t look like my own age, but what a fakes smile or some make-up can do surprises me, that can make you seem like an ordinary, happy and healthy person, but it’s not the way I feel. Fibromyalgia is an ill-understood disease. Missing understanding and support almost…
By: Dr Alexa James A Life Not Fully Lived A lonely journey can be fibromyalgia and chronic pain. Although it is a lonely journey even if you are surrounded by many people. It’s warm and inviting when you’re “your people.” But yet, you try your best not to give your discomfort and pain away. You feel your pain and struggle when you are alone and you know that you are always going to live it.…
By: Dr Alexa James I just feel you. I feel you. I look okay, I’m okay. I live an active life, which is relatively normal. I’m walking, I’m driving, I’m climbing stairs. Visibly, I’m not disabled. I have no limp, no cane or wheelchair or walkers. I have no limp. I’m working a job of complete time. I’m living alone. I live alone. I take care of myself. I take care of myself. I’m cooking,…
By: Dr Alexa James We always look for ways of identifying and distinguishing ourselves. A way to be a single person. The Funny One, the Smart One, the Beautiful. The fan, the creative, the athletic. The “fan of sport,” One way I don’t want to do that is to “be a fibromyalgic girl.” “The painful girl, the painful girl” or “the tired girl.” “The painless girl,” I’m more than my pain. Ask me to camp.…
By: Dr Alexa James The chronic pain of such a hot button is pain relief, pain medication, and the treatment of pain. People believe that people who are suffering from chronic pain or seek pain medicines can not go beyond the truth. Individuals with chronic pain and chronic pain seek one thing alone, pain relief or pain control. Unfortunately, many pain conditions are widely misunderstood, especially fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia, therapy and management of this condition are…