Chronic Awareness: Understanding Chronic Illnesses & Supporting

Why is it that every sufferer that I’ve met that has fibromyalgia also has a controlling personality or bipolar problem, including me?

Multiple doctors have told me I very likely have fibromyalgia (but my mother never took me to a rheumatologist), and I would say that I only am controlling to protect…

chronicillness 03/01/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Pain

What’s one thing that helped your Fibromyalgia Pain?

For me, it was addressing the root cause of the illness: heavy metal toxicity. I had 8 dental amalgams as well as a couple of root canals. I used to…

chronicillness 02/28/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

Is Fibromyalgia just a throw-away Diagnosis when they can’t figure out what’s wrong?

I don't know what it takes to make a fibromyalgia diagnosis because I don’t trust science’s model to describe and assess what the phenomenon really is. They do more harm…

chronicillness 02/28/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Flares

What percent of Fibromyalgia patients don’t respond to any of the commonly used Medicines?

You know this is the craziest thing I am going to talk about now… I'm not sure what the percentage is, but I can tell you that I spent years…

chronicillness 02/28/2022

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions

How would you decide if a diagnosis is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia?

Get your genes mapped. If you have either fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue it is probably most likely due to “Soft Tissue Calcification” which is caused by the body not excreting…

chronicillness 02/28/2022

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronic Pain Fibromyalgia

I find myself taking numerous sick days due to pain from my chronic conditions (fibromyalgia, lupus, thyroid disorders, bipolar)

It’s hard to address them all at once. I’ll just mention that your issue with panic attacks is probably both psychological as well as physiological. From your wording, it sounds…

chronicillness 02/25/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Fibromyalgia Medication

Who tests for fibromyalgia?

Traditionally, rheumatologists do the testing to find fibromyalgia. That is because originally, nobody knew what fibromyalgia was and they assumed, as it was linked to pain in joints and muscles,…

chronicillness 02/25/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

When you Got Fibromyalgia?

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.…

chronicillness 02/09/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

As a Fibromyalgia Sufferer Myself, I’ll tell you how it developed in me, As a story form for an easy understanding

About eight years ago, I went to my OB/GYN as I was experiencing some mild fatigue and joint pain. I had had a 20-year career as a dancer and had…

chronicillness 02/09/2022

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Conditions Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

Every Experience in fibromyalgia have some Level of Pain

Imagine being beaten and having huge bruises over your entire body, with a full-body sunburn on top of that, and having someone taking a stick and repeatedly poking all your…

chronicillness 02/09/2022