Introduction Fibromyalgia is widely recognized for causing widespread pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbances, but one of its most frustrating and often overlooked symptoms is brain fog. Many people living with fibromyalgia describe moments when they…
fibromyalgia diagnosis
Learn how Fibromyalgia is diagnosed, including key symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and the tests used to rule out other conditions.
Fibromyalgia and Unnecessary Tests: More Care Is Not Better Care
Introduction: When More Testing Does Not Always Mean Better Treatment For many people living with fibromyalgia, the journey to diagnosis is long, confusing, and emotionally exhausting. Widespread pain, overwhelming fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties, and…
Fibromyalgia and Nurses: Understanding the Challenges, Responsibilities, and Importance of Compassionate Care
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing widespread musculoskeletal pain, persistent fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties, and heightened sensitivity to physical stimuli. Although it is increasingly recognized within the medical…
I Have Fibromyalgia Again
When Symptoms Return and It Feels Like Starting Over Hearing or saying the words, “I have fibromyalgia again,” can carry a mixture of emotions. For some, it reflects a return of symptoms after a period…
Fibromyalgia and the tendency toward anxiety
“When anxious people anticipate something bad about to happen- such as being confronted with creepy pictures of snakes or spiders- their right frontal insulas go into overdrive”, Blakeslee and Blakeslee Many of us with fibromyalgia…
Fibromyalgia and Living in a Chaotic World
Understanding the Challenge of Fibromyalgia in Modern Life Living with fibromyalgia is challenging under any circumstances, but navigating the demands of today’s fast-paced and often chaotic world can make the condition even more difficult to…
Fibromyalgia and Foot Pain: Understanding the Connection, Symptoms, Causes, and Management
Introduction Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive difficulties. While many people associate fibromyalgia with pain in the back, shoulders, neck, and hips,…
Fibromyalgia: the mosaic of treatments
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom”, Bertrand Russell I believe that those of us with central sensitization, that is, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, or to call it by another name -“post-traumatic stress disorder”, all…
Fibromyalgia and Skin Problems: Clothing that Causes Itching
Clothing & Fibromyalgia Pain – How Materials Affect Discomfort For many people living with fibromyalgia, pain does not come only from within. It is also triggered from the outside. Something as ordinary as clothing—meant to…
The Many Faces of Fibromyalgia: Understanding a Complex and Multifaceted Condition
Introduction Fibromyalgia is often described as a chronic pain disorder, but that definition captures only a small part of what many people experience. While widespread pain is one of its defining characteristics, fibromyalgia affects multiple…