During a pain flare, feeling anything touch your body can be excruciating. On those days, you’ll likely reach for soft, comfortable clothes that don’t add to your pain. Hello leggings, goodbye tailored pants. While you could just throw on an old T-shirt, wearing something that’s fashionable and comfortable can help boost your mood and make you feel more confident…
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Relationship between Fibromyalgia and Restless Leg Syndrome
BY STELLA JONES It happens a lot that when you think that you have dealt with every single symptom of fibromyalgia, out of nowhere one more symptom throw at you? And that one more will be something you have never imagined having a connection with fibromyalgia. Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is another symptom added in that…
How Summer Heat and Humidity Affect Your Fibromyalgia
By Dr Alex Robber Fibromyalgia is mostly known for the pain, fatigue and discomfort it causes a person, and several factors can increase the risk of having it or increase the pain. Many patients have reported that being exposed to different kinds of weather makes them feel more pain. For example, being outside on a…
The Apology I Owe My Patients With Fibromyalgia
By Dr Alex Robber I have an apology to make. I’d like to apologize to all the patients I saw in my years working in urgent care who had chronic pain due to fibromyalgia or autoimmune disease. I’d like to apologize for not knowing, understanding, and in some cases not even believing what you were going through. You see,…
How the Death of My Father Has Affected My Fibromyalgia
By Mikki Ingram I’ve recently discovered that though my fibromyalgia by itself is incredibly difficult and painful to live with, my symptoms have increased in severity following a deeply painful emotional blow. On January 13th, 2018, my father passed away. I didn’t find out about it until February 11, 2018, but it didn’t matter how old the…
How Fibromyalgia Makes Me Feel Like I’m Being Buried Alive
BY JULIA NELSON The darkness is all-encompassing. I can’t breathe, and there is an almost unbearable weight on my chest. I feel like I’m being crushed and the pain is excruciating. All I can hear is thump, thump, thump – although at this point I’m not sure if it’s the beat of my heart, or if it is…
Fibromyalgia sufferers have a greater corneal sensitivity
BY JULIA NELSON There is a link between fibroomyalgia and cornea. This was shown by a study conducted in Turkey and published by Eye. Those with this syndrome have a greater corneal sensitivity, with symptoms similar to those of the dry eye People suffering from fibromyalgia would also have increased corneal sensitivity and eye pain. This…
Two simple tests can ID fibromyalgia in pain patients
BY JULIA NELSON (HealthDay)—Two simple tests can indicate a probable diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) in patients with chronic pain, according to a study published online Oct. 23 in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Kim D. Jones, Ph.D., from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and colleagues studied 352 patients scheduled for routine examination in two primary…
How Hydrotherapy Can Aid Fibromyalgia
BY JULIA NELSON Fibromyalgia is a situation that normally regular medicine can do pretty minimal to aid. For that motive several victims will glance to substitute therapies in buy to get aid and one that could be of benefit is hydrotherapy. In this write-up we are heading to contemplate what fibromyalgia is, what hydrotherapy is and…