A comprehensive guide on chronic pain, its causes, symptoms, and effective management strategies to improve your quality of life.
Living with a chronic pain condition, such as fibromyalgia, can be difficult enough in itself but, when it comes to relationships, it can also cause additional complications. Aside from the pain associated with fibromyalgia, the illness often has a negative impact on the patient’s emotional well-being. The combination of these two elements alone can place an understandable strain upon both partners in a relationship. In fact, a study published by the US National Institute of…
Before fibromyalgia, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and other chronic illness took over my body, I would return home from a vacation feeling relaxed or energized. At first, my illnesses would require a little more rest while away. Because I pushed through pain and fatigue in hopes of keeping up with my family, I always returned home feeling like death. It was not unusual for my body to need days, weeks, and a few times months to…
Some people have an irrational fear of doctors. While some of us have been victimized so severely, that we may never trust one again. Since my first chronic illness diagnosis in 2001, my life, has been nothing short of a nightmare. I know my body well. In fact, I know better than any test or doctor. Tweet Not to sound conceited. But not one test or scan has ever shown the destruction that has been…
If your spouse has been diagnosed with a chronic pain condition, such as fibromyalgia, it may feel like a strange thing to ask how you are coping. However, as your partner is busily navigating his/her own coping mechanisms, you may well be left struggling with your own challenges and frustrations. Click Here to Visit the Store and find Much More…. We recently posted an article that detailed some of the relationship pressures described by those…
For those of you that suffer from a chronic pain illness, such as fibromyalgia, it’s likely that you may also find it difficult to get a good night’s sleep. According to the Sleep Foundation, approximately two-thirds of adults who suffer from chronic pain, also report experiencing sleeping difficulties: “the combination of pain and sleep disturbance is a double-edged sword: the pain makes sleep more difficult and sleeps deprivation exacerbates pain.” Click Here to Visit the Store and…
When suffering from chronic pain, most people reach for comfort food. Would you still make the same choice if you knew this could be aggravating your chronic pain symptoms? Find out more. Nowadays, whether you suffer from chronic pain or not, the majority of people consume more calories than recommended. To make matters worse, many of these foods are high in saturated fats, salt, and sugar. Not only will this put you on the fast…
Chronic pain is an extremely painful condition that has a tendency to worsen at night, but what’s the reason behind this? Find out in this blog. As a law firm with vast expertise in handling chronic pain compensation claims, we regularly witness first-hand how debilitating the condition can be and are therefore able to empathize with our clients who approach us to work on their cases. When chronic pain flares up, there is no standard…
In past posts, I’ve written about feeling ill-equipped to handle the role of spouse, the (still ongoing) process of learning that I can’t fix everything, and just being there for my loved one. Those are all key components of becoming the best you can be as a partner, spouse, relative, or friend of a loved one who suffers from a chronic illness such as Fibromyalgia. However, some days are just tough… Click Here to Visit…
People with fibromyalgia are usually prescribed pain relievers, sleep medicines, antidepressants, muscle relaxants, and anti-seizure medications to help with their symptoms. These medications all come with risks and side effects so they are just as likely to do harm as to help. In this guest post, Marco gives us some tips to treat fibromyalgia pain safely. How to manage fibromyalgia pain safely Fibromyalgia is a very distressing disease, and very challenging to treat. A vast…
I do believe there are patients who have widespread musculoskeletal pain attributed to a syndrome we call fibromyalgia. However, I do not believe rheumatologists should be the “main caregivers for these patients,” as Pisetsky and others have suggested. We simply treat these patients by default. The main reason for my stance is the lack of any creditable evidence supporting fibromyalgia as a rheumatologic condition other than the existence of chronic pain. Although rheumatic diseases are…