“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”, Mark Twain Given that modern medicine has been unable to find either a cause or cure for fibromyalgia it is little wonder that many have turned to an alternate way...
Fibromyalgia and Aging: Hope for the new decade
” To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old”, Oliver Wendell Holmes As we age each new year brings hope of change in a positive direction. Less pain, less fatigue, better quality sleep are the...
Male caregiving for the spouse with fibromyalgia
“Caring is pivotal to keeping the human enterprise going, yet its function is invisible in the organization of our daily lives”, Sheila Neysmith This is my 50th blog and I have never yet discussed male caregivers! In my book I discussed with the women living with...
Fibromyalgia: Trauma, Sleep disturbances, Night terrors, Sleep walking, Nightmares
“Trauma is so arresting that traumatized people will focus on it compulsively”, Peter Levine There are so many various kinds of sleep disturbances that it becomes somewhat of a check list to differentiate between them all. Some of us suffer from everyone of them. I began...
Fibromyalgia: Numbness, Tingling, Pins and Needles
” The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it”, Helen Keller A condition called paresthesia results in numbness, tingling and pins and needles in the limbs, due to disturbances in the nerve pathways. Those of us with fibromyalgia have what...
Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and the anxiety-prone brain
” The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought”, Robin Marantz Henig An article in the NewYork Times Magazine, October 4, 2009 by Robin Marantz Henig, entitled Understanding the Anxious Mind has led me to speculate about the anxious, highly reactive, overly sensitive temperaments of those...
Fibromyalgia and Medical Marijuana
“Make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere”, George Washington I’m not very humble when I say that I believe my book will one day be a steppingstone toward a greater understanding about why certain types of people are more prone to fibromyalgia. Furthermore,...
Fibromyalgia, labelling and the brain
“The changed brain stays changed”, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young This website is one which presents information which I hope is written in easy to understand language without too much academic or medical jargon. Many with fibromyalgia who might be suffering from brain fog or have trouble with focusing...
Fibromyalgia and Sounds/Noises: Misophonia
“One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter,complete silence“, Andre Kostelanetz There is a new (at least to me) term called “misophonia” (Wednesday, September 7, 2001 , Life section, The Globe and Mail) in which sounds can cause...