Fibromyalgia After Hip Surgery: A slow process
” Patience is a conquering virtue”, Geoffrey Chaucer So, the hip replacement happened almost three weeks ago. I had hoped that when I took my first step post-operatively I would not have pain. So...
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Fibromyalgia, my unquiet mind
” The mind is the most capricious of insects-flitting, fluttering”, Virginia Woolf Sit quietly for a minute and imagine this stream with leaves quietly floating by in the water. Now think of the many...
Fibromyalgia is a malfunctioning of the central nervous system
“Do something every day that scares you”, Eleanor Roosevelt I have had a difficult year, even being admitted to the hospital for several days with extremely high blood pressure. Now that I’ve settled down...
Fibromyalgia: Suffering With The Itch You Can’t Scratch
“Once it is understood that sufferings cannot be compared, then it is possible to speak of different sufferings in the same story because there is no comparison”, Arthur W. Frank Here it is… one...
Fibromyalgia and Aging: Hope for the new decade
” To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old”, Oliver Wendell Holmes As we age each new year brings hope of change in a...
Male caregiving for the spouse with fibromyalgia
“Caring is pivotal to keeping the human enterprise going, yet its function is invisible in the organization of our daily lives”, Sheila Neysmith This is my 50th blog and I have never yet discussed...
Linking together the causes of fibromyalgia: “Central Sensitization”
“The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response “, Daniel Goleman. Many years ago I had...
Fibromyalgia and Violence
” Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit” , Martin Luther King, Jr. Violence can be defined in many ways. It is anger at its peak in...
Fibromyalgia and major life transitions: accumulated life crises
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished”, Benjamin Franklin It really is all about the brain and how new pathways can become established and old ones can be paths less traveled. So many reports their...
Fibromyalgia: the overmedicated ‘patient’
“America is one of the few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs, Robert Reich BigPharma makes huge profits from those of us suffering from chronic pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, itching, and...
