A comprehensive guide on chronic pain, its causes, symptoms, and effective management strategies to improve your quality of life.
By: Dr Alex Robber Over the last 20 years and I am 31 years old I have been facing chronic diseases in multiple forms. As long as I remember I had migraines, and I developed my fibromyalgia 8 years ago. I like to believe I’m fairly good at handling my pain after all these years. You might actually say that from time to time I am quite crowded with myself. I work in complete, socialize…
By: Dr Alex Robber Self-dubbing is one thing which continually surprises me about fibromyalgia. We have all heard of fibromyalgia-patients who deal with health workers who don’t think their pain is true or who are unbelievable about their diagnoses from friends and family. But I never expected to fight doubts in my own mind continuously. Maybe this is related to the tenuity of the diagnosis, I believe. There is no blood test or x-ray to…
By: Dr Alex Robber That will be 7:30 p.m. I’ll be in bed on a Friday night. So, I’m next to my husband and pets. There is nothing new here, and frankly, most of our friends do the same thing, but I wouldn’t really understand. It wasn’t the diagnosis or the pain that led me to avoid parties inviting my wives and happy-hour texts. When I started to drift so far, I don’t really remember,…