Fibromyalgia Awareness: Understanding Condition & Supporting

Managing Fibromyalgia

Q: In addition to medication, how can I manage my fibromyalgia? A: Medications may be necessary to manage your fibromyalgia, but there also are a number of day-to-day strategies for coping with the disease. Your psychological outlook is important, with studies finding benefits from cognitive therapy for women with fibromyalgia. Specifically, studies find, negative thinking increases stress and affects your perception of pain, so learning to minimize and control these thoughts can improve your symptoms.…

by chronicillness•01/06/202308/23/2025•0

How A Fibromyalgia Sufferer Changed Her Life Through Diet

For over a decade, Holly Donald suffered from debilitating symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Changing her diet has changed her life. With two young children and a demanding job, 36-year-old Holly Donald attributed her poor health to the pressures of a hectic lifestyle. Exhaustion, cramp, joint pains, Brain fog, and migraines were a daily occurrence for the local authority supervisor, impacting on her relationships with family and friends. It was only when her crippling symptoms worsened to…

by chronicwoman•10/27/202208/23/2025•0

High rate of restless legs syndrome found in adults with fibromyalgia

A study in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that adults with fibromyalgia had a much higher prevalence and risk of restless legs syndrome than healthy controls. The study suggests that treating RLS may improve sleep and quality of life in people with fibromyalgia. Click Here to Visit the Store and find Much More…. Results show that the prevalence of restless legs syndrome was about 10 times higher in…

by chronicwoman•04/06/202108/23/2025•0

Feel that cold – Fibro Weather

“Fall Blends” oil pastel by Shelley Lockwood Fall was one of my favorite seasons. Some days, damp ones to be more precise are rarely pleasant or enjoyable. Last week the dull ache got less dull and today the coldness to the core started. As the cold slowly seeped deeper and deeper, the pain spread and intensified. Other than applying some heat and layering up, there isn’t much to do except waiting. Round and round it…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

Easing My Flair for Fibromyalgia Flares

Some flares are pretty, fibro–flares are not. An important part of my learning to LIVE with fibromyalgia has been trying to pinpoint my personal triggers of fibro-flares. In other words what makes all my fibro symptoms go from manageable to really, really bad. Sometimes so bad that I literally can’t stay upright. Some of my flare-ups have lasted days, some have lasted weeks. Before I had a better understanding of what I was dealing with I…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

Warning! Friendship Erosion in Progress – Fibromyalgia

But first…let me tell you a story about friendship I found myself always wanting to crawl back into bed and turn it into my own little dark comfy n’ cozy cocoon. My only company in the room was a huge cup of coffee, my dog, and the TV. I’d nap whenever I need to, which is pretty much always. I’d only get up to…Ummm eliminate the last coffee I drank, and of course, make myself…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

Dear Spoonie Friend,

Sorry I haven’t written lately… but I’m trapped in this never-ending nightmare. I can’t work, I can’t sleep, I can barely type at all. This latest Fibro-flare is really packing a punch. The pain at night is unbearable. I can’t shake the brain fog so… When I explain why I haven’t written sooner… you will understand my Spoonie friend. Click here to Get this or Visit Fibromyalgia Store Now if I wrote that in a letter to…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

A Tale of Two Years; My Fibro Tale – Fibromyalgia

We begin this Fibro Tale two years ago this month… Looking back to the beginning of my fibro tale. I don’t believe pharmacy was necessarily the wrong choice for me at the time. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last two years it’s that no two single Fibro-tales are exactly the same. No two sets of triggers are exactly the same. Click here to Get this or Visit Fibromyalgia Store Every single one…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

Life With Fibromyalgia One Task at a Time

A big part of my life with Fibromyalgia is figuring out how to stop mentally berating myself over not living up to expectations. Expectations? Whose Expectations? Why my own of course. Rationally I’m aware that there is no magic bar that’s been set for me by others. There is no invisible line of measurement being monitored for results. Nobody is judging my achievements let alone defining what those are. Click here to Get this or…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0

Post Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

7 years post fibromyalgia diagnosis and I’m still trying to accept that lowering the bar is essential to living my best life. Pushing myself beyond my physical limitations leads to a flare, period. I push too hard and I get knocked down. It’s really that simple. Forgiving myself these limits. Now that’s where I struggle. I’d like to say that I’ve learned not to beat myself up over it. But, that’d be a lie. The…

by Dr Alex Robber•03/01/202108/23/2025•0