Managing Fibromyalgia’s Effects on the Brain Doctors often focus more on the physical symptoms of fibromyalgia, such as pain, fatigue, and stiffness. However, many people with the condition also have trouble focusing, concentrating, or thinking…
Fibromyalgia Flares
Understand Fibromyalgia flares, their symptoms, common triggers, and effective strategies to manage and reduce flare-ups for a better quality of life.
How to Face the Day During a Fibromyalgia Flare
When you wake up in a fibromyalgia flare—with that feeling that you can’t move, as if a 500-pound weight has been dropped on you in your sleep—you can’t help but wonder how you can possibly…
Hypersensitivity to Non-Painful Events and Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is often described as a pain condition, but that description only captures part of the picture. Many people living with fibromyalgia experience something broader and more disruptive than pain alone: an amplified sensitivity to…
Tips for when you are in the Fibro Flare
I am in a Fibro Flare. The pain arching through me right now is difficult to describe, to be honest. It is a deep, bone-deep, throbbing ache that is at around an 8 on the…
Pain brain signals disrupted in fibromyalgia patients
New research indicates that a disruption of brain signals for reward and punishment contributes to increased pain sensitivity, known as hyperalgesia, in fibromyalgia patients. Results published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American…
Fibromyalgia Flare Research: What Science Reveals About Symptom Surges and Triggers
Introduction Fibromyalgia is widely recognized as a chronic condition marked by persistent widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive difficulties. However, one of its most challenging features is not just the baseline symptoms, but the…
Brain fog tips and tricks
Brain fog is a symptom of many chronic illnesses and chronic pain. Just seems that when we get ill and our bodies get fatigued or are fighting pain, or both, add in some lack of…
A Flare is one of the worst fibromyalgia experiences.
The Flare-up (see here for my article on it) is one of the worst fibromyalgia experiences. I fell into it sometime last night and woke up with the most unpleasant pains. In the hips, shoulders,…
Lack of continuous sleep in Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia has some pretty distinctive sleep disturbances associated with it not to mention comorbid sleep issues. It is one of the key factors in the syndrome… our inability to attain refreshing sleep. I wrote a…
Brain Fog, When It Isn’t Just About the Pain
Brain fog is one of those experiences that is hard to describe clearly, yet instantly recognizable to those who live with it. It is not a medical diagnosis on its own, but rather a symptom…