
When you’re in constant pain and nobody believes you
Jennifer Brea was 28 when she found herself unable to finish a short bike ride or run — she’d head home halfway through and sleep for hours. “I kind
Jennifer Brea was 28 when she found herself unable to finish a short bike ride or run — she’d head home halfway through and sleep for hours. “I kind
By: Cort, The dysautonomia in FM patients can be characterized by unrelenting sympathetic hyperactivity throughout the day associated with a deranged sympathetic response to different stressors. The authors The autonomic nervous system
Any individual who knows somebody who experiences fibromyalgia or who suffers from it themselves knows how inconceivably excruciating and persistent this malady can be. Gratefully, as more individuals
Fibromyalgia is still like a black box, where most do not know much about it. Up till now, it is still incurable with no proven method to fix
People with fibromyalgia are also susceptible to having pain in the chest, a condition known as Costochondritis. The chest pain can range from mild annoyance to excruciating pain described
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition. It remains one of the hardest illness to be diagnosed as it surfaces as different types of pain and symptoms in different individuals.
I stood in my closet this morning, looking around as though I’d never been there. I couldn’t remember what I was doing, why, or what I should do
Cannabis has been used as a multi-use homeopathic remedy for centuries. Over time, evidence suggests that the plant was an herbal remedy for psycho-neurological disorders, breast cancer,
By Thomas G. Ciccone Interview with Tor D. Wager, PhD Historically, fibromyalgia (FM) lacks a definitive explanation for its underlying mechanisms of action,1 and has little consensus on objective, consistent physiological characteristics to
It’s not at all unusual for fibromyalgia to be misdiagnosed as another condition and vice versa, as symptoms of fibromyalgia are similar to that of other illnesses. Also, there
People with fibromyalgia don’t breathe properly Research has shown that shortness of breath (dyspnea) is common in people living with Fibromyalgia. While I was working in direct care, gong
Mary McCool Amy McLachlan’s chronic pain first manifested while lying in bed one autumn morning, when she discovered she couldn’t move her neck or shoulders. Her GP,
Many people suffer from a chronic condition associated with chronic pain. An example of this is chronic back pain. But question is when it is chronic? The rule for this is that
It is crazy, but sometimes I feel like a criminal tried continuously by people who do not know anything about me or my life and therefore I find it
This article originally appeared on Clinical Pain Advisor. PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Clinicians treating patients with fibromyalgia may want to consider low-dose naltrexone (LDN) as a treatment option, even
“The potential for brain measures like the ones we developed here is that they can tell us something about the particular brain abnormalities that drive an individual’s suffering.