Sensory overload is one of the most misunderstood and distressing aspects of fibromyalgia. While pain and fatigue are often discussed, the way the nervous system reacts to everyday sensory input is rarely explained in depth.…
Weather Effects on People with Fibromyalgia and Why Winters Can Be Especially Hard
Weather has a powerful effect on the human body, but for people living with fibromyalgia, those effects are often magnified to a painful and life disrupting degree. Changes in temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and seasonal…
Fibromyalgia and Persistent Chest Pain: Understanding the Source of Undiagnosed Pain
Persistent chest pain is one of the most frightening symptoms a person can experience. When pain appears in the chest, the mind immediately jumps to worst case scenarios. Heart attack. Lung disease. Life threatening emergencies.…
To the Husband Whose Wife Has Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Illness: What You Need to Understand
If your wife lives with fibromyalgia or another chronic illness, your marriage is carrying a weight that few people truly understand. You may love her deeply and still feel confused, helpless, frustrated, or even invisible…
Sleep Issues with Fibromyalgia: Why Pain Keeps You Awake at Night
Sleep should be the body’s time to recover, reset, and restore itself. For people living with fibromyalgia, however, night often becomes another battlefield. Instead of relief, bedtime brings heightened pain, racing thoughts, muscle stiffness, and…
Extreme Itch and Rashes with Fibromyalgia: Understanding What Causes Skin Irritation
Fibromyalgia is widely known for chronic pain, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties, yet one of its most misunderstood and distressing symptoms often appears on the skin. Many people living with fibromyalgia experience intense itching, unexplained rashes,…
Aspects of a Fibromyalgia Diagnosis That Doctors Don’t Tell You: Preparing for the Unspoken Challenges
Receiving a fibromyalgia diagnosis can feel like both an answer and a beginning. For many people, it comes after years of unexplained pain, fatigue, and frustration. Finally, there is a name for what has been…
Diagnosing Fibromyalgia: What to Do When Tests Come Back Normal
For many people, the road to a fibromyalgia diagnosis is long, exhausting, and emotionally draining. It often begins with pain that does not make sense, fatigue that does not improve with rest, and symptoms that…
Diagnosing Fibromyalgia: What to Do When Tests Come Back Normal
For many people, the journey toward a fibromyalgia diagnosis begins with confusion, fear, and hope. Pain appears without a clear injury. Fatigue becomes overwhelming and relentless. Sleep no longer restores energy. Brain fog interferes with…
An Accident Changed How I Manage My Fibromyalgia Pain: Learning from a Surprising Intervention
Living with fibromyalgia is often described as learning how to survive inside a body that does not behave by familiar rules. Pain arrives without warning. Fatigue settles in no matter how much rest you get.…