Please avoid these things if you have fibromyalgia?
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Please avoid these things if you have fibromyalgia?

I’m not telling you what not to do, but a way to get to the point where you can do things. Avoiding things with fibromyalgia is a slippery slope. It reinforces how disabled you are.…

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Have you done or used anything that increases your energy while suffering from fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue?
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Have you done or used anything that increases your energy while suffering from fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue?

I had fibromyalgia symptoms for 15 years before I was diagnosed. At that time, I took a course of physical therapy where I did the Wharton stretch method, where you put a strap around your…

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Does any Fibromyalgia Sufferer have advice for someone who was recently Diagnosed with illness?
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Does any Fibromyalgia Sufferer have advice for someone who was recently Diagnosed with illness?

First of all, you haven’t changed. You’re the same person with the same condition, except now you have a label. I found that label very liberating because it showed me that I had a real…

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What do the stories of Survivors tell us about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
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What do the stories of Survivors tell us about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

A wonderful database of patients who have accomplished a remission from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been created by Chronic-illness Community has video-interviewed several survivors and he has made these available for review. The…

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What do you want others to understand about your fibromyalgia life condition, that others don’t seem to realize?
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What do you want others to understand about your fibromyalgia life condition, that others don’t seem to realize?

My fibromyalgia is considered to be at the severe end of the scale. When one has a disease/illness/condition where we frequently get the “but you don’t look sick” cry from the healthy unknowing masses, it…

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My Fight with Fibromyalgia (My Best Way to Tackle this Illness)
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My Fight with Fibromyalgia (My Best Way to Tackle this Illness)

I don’t know if my way is best, but I’m nearly symptom-free. I take medication and I slowly increased my exercise and activity. The worst: In the spring of 2008, my fibromyalgia (technically fibromyalgia syndrome or FMS)…

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Fibromyalgia: Do you think that Fibro Patients are imagined to live without pain?
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Fibromyalgia: Do you think that Fibro Patients are imagined to live without pain?

I would think that would qualify as an oxymoron, calling Fibromyalgia a “comfort zone”! Since I noticed the first pains, it seems as though I haven’t been comfortable again. I know you mean more on…

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Is there a potential cure for fibromyalgia or a way to protect against fibromyalgia?
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Is there a potential cure for fibromyalgia or a way to protect against fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is primarily a neurological brain disorder. It is seven times more likely to strike women than men, and it doesn’t matter what nationality you are. The hypothalamus part of the brain acts as a…

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