Introduction Living with fibromyalgia is about much more than coping with chronic pain. It is a condition that affects nearly every aspect of daily life, from physical comfort and emotional well-being to work, relationships, and…
Mental Illness
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Fibromyalgia Invisible Disability Awareness
Understanding Fibromyalgia as a Chronic Condition Fibromyalgia is a long-term health condition characterized primarily by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and a heightened sensitivity to pressure and touch. However, reducing it to just “pain” does not…
The Emotional Effects of Fibromyalgia
Living with fibromyalgia can affect you physically and emotionally. Fibromyalgia is stressful. The pain and stress of fibromyalgia raise your body’s level of cortisol, a stress hormone. Adjusting to the disease and finding treatments that…
6 Tips for Coping With ‘Fibromyalgia Fog’
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…
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…
Cognitive Dysfunction and Fibromyalgia
When the Mind Feels Slower Than It Should Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia is often described using the term “fibro fog,” but that phrase can make it sound softer or less disruptive than it actually is.…
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…
10 things I would tell the newly diagnosed with Chronic Illness
I wish I had been prepared for the impact of what was going to happen in my life from chronic illness being newly diagnosed. Realistically. I had a firm belief back then that I could…
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…