The brief answer is that in 2002 I was 33 and I took up running again after a four-year absence due to a ruptured disk that needed surgery to fix. When I began to run…
Fibromyalgia Symptoms
A detailed guide to understanding Fibromyalgia symptoms, early warning signs, and how they are diagnosed.
Fibromyalgia as Experiencing Pain Where There’s No Injury
Introduction Pain is usually understood as a warning signal from the body, alerting us to injury or damage. A cut, a broken bone, or inflammation typically explains why pain exists. This simple relationship between injury…
As a Fibromyalgia Sufferer Myself, I’ll Tell You How It Developed in Me (A Story-Style Journey)
The Beginning: When Nothing Felt Serious Yet It didn’t start the way people usually expect a chronic illness to begin. There was no dramatic moment, no accident that changed everything overnight, no single day where…
Genetic Factors and Emotional or Traumatic Triggers in Fibromyalgia: Understanding How the Condition May Be Set Off
Introduction Fibromyalgia is one of the most complex and widely misunderstood chronic pain conditions. It is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive difficulties often referred to as “fibro fog.” One of…
Fibromyalgia is Complicated and so are its Causes
Introduction Fibromyalgia is one of those medical conditions that resists simple explanations. It does not behave like a typical illness with a single identifiable cause, a clear diagnostic test, or a straightforward treatment path. Instead,…
Stress That Affects the Hypothalamus May Lead to Fibromyalgia
Introduction Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain, persistent fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties, and heightened sensitivity to physical and emotional stressors. For many years, its exact cause remained unclear, leading to misunderstandings…
Fibromyalgia Diagnosis gives me new SUCKINESS
As everyone else said, it does suck, but how it feels to live with chronic illness varies as much as people vary. People react to their new limitations, lifestyle, and the overall new “suckiness” of…
In my Experience, Fibromyalgia Pain Can Happen in any Part of your Body.
I’ve had it for about 29 years now. In a word—-Pain. Never-ending, constant pain. Your shoulder will suddenly start to hurt, which can last for a few seconds to days. That can happen in any…
Fibromyalgia Makes Me Exhausting, Frustrating, Difficult, Painful, Embarrassing and Limiting
Introduction Fibromyalgia is often described in clinical terms: widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive difficulties. Those definitions are technically accurate, but they don’t fully capture what it feels like to live with the condition…
I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by a Physiatrist who told me that he couldn’t help me.
I’ve had fibromyalgia since the 1980s. It came on gradually, with a lot of muscle pain. I knew something was wrong and had a course of physical therapy, and started working out, which put me…