The site that has the pain scale that I’ve found very useful has started carrying fibromyalgia t-shirts. I’d like the one with this poem on it MUCH better without the sappy graphic, but I suppose it’s appropriate: Grant me the…
NOT Helpful Suggestions
Eunice Beck, RN, on Coping with Flares and Mental Health I’m having an invisible spell again, or at least my disease is. Let me try to explain. In the first place, I’m in a major flare, which isn’t helping my…
Think of Something Good…
This week: Horrid pain and fibro fog. Unexpected $420.80 in car repairs. More hassle from the financial aid department. $2-3k less financial aid than I was supposed to get, and none of it paid to ME yet. On the nicer…
Squee!
I finally got around to subscribing to FM Network News and FM Aware Magazine. I’d been interested in both for some time, but I was reluctant to order publications that I haven’t ever had in my hands. My excuse, finally,…
PTSD & Fibromyalgia
Posttraumatic Stress, Fibromyalgia Linked Chronic Pain Condition Seen in Half of Veterans With PTSD I recently started thinking about FMS as possibly being the physical equivalent of PTSD. Your entire system is hypersensitive, which leads to all manner of problems.…
Blessing
The Director of Financial Aid at SPSU called me personally, not because of anything related to her job. She heard something about a connection between fibromyalgia and celiac disease, and she wanted to let me know in case it might…
Slow to Start Today
Current Mood: 🙁uncomfortable
Hello Thursday
Awe-inspiring: Rainbow Spectrum Photo For fun: Gay Marriage is For the Birds I just did a massive reduction on my LJ reading list again. I cannot keep up with it, so communities, feeds, and people were cut. Please don’t take…
Whinging
Damn. I have bug bites on my feet and ankles. I don’t want to say the “f” word, but that’s what they look and feel like. Hmph. I am absolutely sure now that the birth control pills are causing the…
Good Article About Source of FM Pain
Fibromyalgia Pain: Do We Know the Source? Roland Staud Abstract Purpose of review: Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain condition of unknown origin. Multiple abnormalities have been described, including peripheral tissue and central nervous system changes. The relation of…