Fibromyalgia: pink palms, smooth feet
” The biology of pain is never straightforward, even when it appears to be”, Lorimer Moseley I thought I knew it all: fibromyalgia is a constant hyper-arousal of the central…
Sara Corning: A Brave Humanitarian Nurse
“She learned to Serve Others”, the headstone of Sara Corning My dear Readers: Now it has been 11 years of writing almost monthly blogs about fibromyalgia and attending to the…
The twins: Fibromyalgia/ PTSD
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment”, Judith Lewis Herman In my book…
Fibromyalgia After Hip Surgery: A slow process
” 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…