” 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 many…
Fibromyalgia: The body holding on to past trauma
“The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciousness, both as flashbacks during waking states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep”, Judith Lewis Herman Trapped in our psyche,…
Fibromyalgia and Neuropathic Pain
“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it”, Naomi Wolf As I have frequently written there are two kinds of pain: nociceptive and neuropathic. Those of us with fibromyalgia suffer from…
Fibromyalgia and Happiness
“People are made happy by one thing and one thing only-pleasant sensations in their bodies”, Yuval Noah Harari What is happiness? Sometimes I think I have been seeking it my entire life and it still…
Fibromyalgia and brain ‘zaps’
“There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me”, Pink Floyd Just as I thought that I had nothing new to write about I have discovered that the weird ‘brain’ sensations I have, which only last…
Fibromyalgia and Medical Marijuana Revisited
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”, Leonard Cohen–Anthem Cannabinophobia has resulted in a frenzy of political, medical, social, and cultural chaos for generations in spite of the fact that…
Experimenting with Medical Marijuana for Fibromyalgia
“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug”, Willie Nelson Well, here I am in the second month of experimenting with this wondrous herb. It isn’t easy…
Fibromyalgia is an anxiety disorder
” People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger”, David D. Burns Everyone worries, it falls under the umbrella of anxiety. It is not about…
Fibromyalgia and its Siblings: Symptoms, Symptoms, Symptoms!
” Trying to eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there’s more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important”, Marianne Williamson…
Fibromyalgia and the highly empathetic/ highly sensitive person
” Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods”, Anthon St. Marten Anton St. Marten writes that to feel intensely is “the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate”. Rather than…