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 been diagnosed with osteoarthritis. I…
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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 tender spots while you are…
Have any incidents or trauma in your life that bought on your Fibromyalgia?
Story of Fibromyalgia Support Group Warrior ABSOLUTELY!!! December 2009 thru January 2010…..I was employed at a Major grocery retail store’s food warehouse (not naming names, but a little hint would be they are based in…
How can I help My Mother she has Fibromyalgia?
She can barely get out of bed some days. One day it’s her foot, another it’s her hip. She’s sad and tired and feels like my and my sister I’s lives aren’t what they could…
Why do some people call Fibromyalgia “Fatso-myalgia”?
Different sufferers have various opinions related to the term fatso-myalgia, Here we have we warriors who shared their experiences here. My life my way with fibromyalgia I am 5’4”. When my fibromyalgia symptoms started, I…
Is my Illness Related to Ascension?
It would depend on your definition of ascension. I suspect that just like almost all illnesses can be viewed from an anatomic, biochemical, and biophysics perspective, and often explained largely from each of those perspectives…
Can Domestic Abuse bring on Fibromyalgia?
Three Fibro Warrior Women have shared their stories of domestic abuse. That is how fibromyalgia is becoming worse with domestic abuse. 1st Fibro Warrior Women Yes, yes yes!!!!!! My ex-husband started abusing me emotionally and…
Have you done or used anything that increases your energy while suffering from fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue?
I had fibromyalgia symptoms for 15 years before I was diagnosed. At that time, I took a course of physical therapy where I did the Wharton stretch method, where you put a strap around your…
Why do Women incur Fibromyalgia with greater frequency than Men?
Fibromyalgia Vs Women The reasons that more women develop Fibromyalgia include, but are not limited to, the following physiologies and pathologies: The women’s pelvic girdle is more delicate than that of the men, wherein bigger…
Does any Fibromyalgia Sufferer have advice for someone who was recently Diagnosed with illness?
First of all, you haven’t changed. You’re the same person with the same condition, except now you have a label. I found that label very liberating because it showed me that I had a real…