What is Fibromyalgia? Living with fibromyalgia is tough. It invades all parts of your body and affects your quality of life. The major symptom is pain,
Summers are not ideal for patients with a chronic illness like fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, arthritis, etc. Every fibromyalgia patient is different and unique from the other fibromyalgia patient.
WELCOME to this week's Fibromyalgia link.
Fibromyalgia vs Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Is It The Same Thing? Many experts agree that the symptoms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
Meet Latoya, fibromyalgia warrior. She tells us how she is living with her new reality with fibromyalgia. She gives her tips and advice.
Everything you need to know about getting a fibromyalgia diagnosis, including current diagnostic criteria (widespread pain, fatigue, waking unrefreshed, headaches, cognitive symptoms), history of diagnosis, common comorbidities, and how to avoid getting misdiagnosed.
One of the minefields you need to navigate when you are diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, or any chronic illness - is who needs to know? Who do I need to tell that I have Fibromyalgia?
What is Fibromyalgia? Living with fibromyalgia is tough. It invades all parts of your body and affects your quality of life. The major symptom is pain,
WELCOME and thank you for dropping in! This is the fibromyalgia link up where you can start building a connection with a wider community of people who have fibromyalgia. Every week many fibro bloggers share their articles here and you can read the ones that interest you by clicking on the numbered links below. Don't forget to let others know about this link up so we can spread awareness of fibromyalgia far and wide.
I have a new tool to improve fibromyalgia symptoms & overall health to share with my fibro friends. I hope it helps you.
Pain is not the sole symptom of fibromyalgia. Beyond pain many experience fatigue, sleep disturbance, cognitive impairment, and a long list of symptoms.
Fibromyalgia and kids will walk you through on what to tell your kids, how to tell your kids, and how they can help with your fibromyalgia!
Fatigue is one of the major issue in fibromyalgia. A person feels exhausted even after a long night's sleep. More sleep causes more fatigue and tiredness instead of causing comfort. It is very common in Fibromyalgia patients.
What Was Your Name Again? If you find yourself searching for the name of someone you know well, or you just can't remember where you put your keys, don't
WELCOME to this week's Fibro Friday link up. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2023. Hope you can join in this week long linky party showcasing articles about Fibromyalgia.
Welcome to the Fibromyalgia link up helping to grow understanding of life with fibromyalgia - a chronic condition with many symptoms including all over body pain and fatigue. We hope you find some information to help you from the many fibromyalgia bloggers who share their fibro stories here each week. Last week we had many helpful articles including: Why are hot flashes and sweating symptoms of fibro from Janet who is a naturopath. Apple Cider Vinegar for Fibromyalgia 2020's top fibromyalgia news & researchVisit last week's link up to see all the entries.
WELCOME to Fibro Friday! I hope you have had a great week and that you are ready to share a link to your fibromyalgia post. Do not forget your post will be promoted in many ways after you add it here ~ as part of a group post next week on Fibro Blogger Directory where readers will be taken directly to your site rather than via inlinkz. as an individual post on X (formerly twitter) in a few weeks to over 17 thousand followers. as an individual post on facebook in a few weeks. as an individual post on tumblr in a few weeks. possibly on Pinterest at Fibro Bloggers Directory where we have over 45.4k monthly views.
The fibromyalgia sufferers mostly have nervous disorders such as chronic itching or irritable bowel syndrome. As discussed earlier, the formication is the communication problem of the nervous system and brain. So, this clears the linkage between the fibromyalgia and formication as the pain is mainly rooted in nerves.
Meet Hilary, a fibromyalgia warrior. She tells us her story on living with fibromyalgia and how to power through with a fibromyalgia diagnosis.
What Was Your Name Again? If you find yourself searching for the name of someone you know well, or you just can't remember where you put your keys, don't
Learn three key strategies to effectively set goals for chronic pain and fatigue recovery to manage symptoms and avoid flares when living with fibromyalgia. Here’s how to achieve the best goal setting results so you can get back to doing the things you want to do! Want to know more?
My experience is that there are a lot of weird and wacky sites about fibro out there and people are looking for information they can trust. Also it is a bit of a desert out there with good sites few and far between. Where can you find reliable information about fibromyalgia? This is a question I asked in my facebook group because there is a lot of unreliable info about fibro out there... you know like fibro is an autoimmune condition or if you take this remedy or diet you will cure it. So I thought it would be good if people knew where they could find information they could trust... American College of Rheumatology This is a site for rheumatology professionals so it should have good information but also it is in ordinary, understandable language not doctor speak. National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association. Most of the articles on this US site are written by doctors. Versus Arthritis is a UK site that has a large section on fibromyalgia. Arthritis Foundation is a US site that has a small section on fibromyalgia. The American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association, Inc. (AFSA) is focused on research into fibromyalgia and also has information about what Fibro is. National Institutes of Health, (NIH) a US Dept. of Health & Human Services site has a section on Fibromyalgia. University of Michigan Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC) has the FibroGuide a symptom management program and other information. Fibromyalgia Network is no longer updated but has good basic info on fibro. Don't bother looking at their blog though as it is now totally irrelevant to fibromyalgia. National ME/FM Action Network is a Canadian charitable organisation with info on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia. This site contains reliable information from National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and true stories from people with fibromyalgia. Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) is a US foundation that supports research into fibromyalgia, ME and CFS. They report on the latest research. These sites are useful for getting basic information about fibromyalgia but I recommend finding out about it from people who live with it every day of their lives. The best place to find these people is at Fibro Blogger Directory (FBD). This is where you will find fantastic bloggers and weekly updates on what it is like to live with fibro. Do you have any other sites about fibromyalgia that you go to find reliable information? Please let me know in comments.
Are you experiencing brain fog, strange tingling and body aches? These may be signs of fibromyalgia. Read to learn more about this condition.
If you're living with fibromyalgia, you know that every day is a new challenge. On the outside, you may look healthy and as if you're living well. But in reality, you might be suffering from severe pain, chronic fatigue, and emotional anguish. There's so much to think about – from managing your symptoms to finding ways to cope to simply getting through the day. I've put together this list of 12 essential tips for living with fibromyalgia. I hope these tips will help make your life a little bit e
What is Fibromyalgia? Living with fibromyalgia is tough. It invades all parts of your body and affects your quality of life. The major symptom is pain,
Meet Ted Hutchinson, fibromyalgia warrior! Ted explains how to re-create your life after a fibromyalgia diagnosis and how to believe in yourself.
How does anyone respond to a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia? Let’s be honest, most of us probably haven’t heard much about it before we started to feel symptoms that fit the box of Fibromyalgia.
What is Fibromyalgia? Living with fibromyalgia is tough. It invades all parts of your body and affects your quality of life. The major symptom is pain,
Do you ever wonder if emotional therapy could help with your fibromyalgia symptoms? I have wondered this very thing, so I went to an expert to find out!
WELCOME to this week's Fibromyalgia link-up. Blog link-ups are a great way to showcase your articles and also to appreciate the work others do. Here at Fibro Friday we are all about helping information about fibromyalgia be seen by a wider audience. We promote this link-up every day to an audience of over 17 thousand fibro followers and then again, a few weeks later, we share your individual article link. We hope you can join in this week.
Many readers ask questions about fibromyalgia via email, social media, and comments. Some of these questions are more frequently asked than others, but all of them are great questions! Here are a list of the most common questions about fibromyalgia I receive.
What is Fibromyalgia? Living with fibromyalgia is tough. It invades all parts of your body and affects your quality of life. The major symptom is pain,
Fibro Friday is where you will find information about Fibromyalgia from people who live with it. Check out these amazing bloggers from last week's link up by clicking on their names. From top to bottom, left to right they are Katie from PainFULLY Living, Bethan from Hello Fibro Blog, Beverley from Blooming Mindfulness, Glenys from Morning Cuppas With Glenys, Susan from Living Creatively With Fibro, and Nikki from Brainless Blogger. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
WELCOME to this week's fibromyalgia link up. We are helping to raise fibromyalgia awareness by sharing articles about fibromyalgia. Every week we have a variety of people, living with fibro, joining in and sharing their posts. Last week's article links can be viewed here. Some of the wonderful bloggers who joined in last week. We hope you can join in this week by sharing a link and visiting some of the links below. Thank you.
Fibromyalgia syndrome is a common and chronic disorder characterised by widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points. There is so much more to fibromyalgia and you can learn more about it by clicking on the links below.
WELCOME to this week's Fibro Friday blog link-up for information about fibromyalgia. Sharing your article about fibromyalgia here will help others understand more about fibromyalgia. Also, your post will be shared on social media around the world. Each week I share the previous week's links to over 24,000 fibro followers. Visiting the links here will help you learn more about fibromyalgia from others who live with it. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
Welcome to the Fibromyalgia link up helping to grow understanding of life with fibromyalgia - a chronic condition with many symptoms including all over body pain and fatigue. We hope you find some information to help you from the many fibromyalgia bloggers who share their fibro stories here each week.
The answer might surprise you! The name does not fit the illness and fibromyaliga is NOT solely a pain symptom. We'll bust some myths for you.
The medical definition of fibro fog is: Fibro fog: A type of cognitive dysfunction reported by many people with fibromyalgia. Also sometimes referred to as brain fog, its symptoms include difficulty with concentration, memory deficits, and confusion. The reason for the changes in brain function with fibromyalgia is not clearly understood. MedicineNet This article is all about fibro fog and the information about it from people who live with it, not from medical sites. The good thing is if you want to learn more, about a particular quote, or the person that said it, you can click on the blog names at the end of each quote to be taken to that person's blog. I personally find fibro fog one of the most challenging parts of fibromyalgia because it just stops me in my tracks. It stops me functioning completely. I cannot think straight. I cannot concentrate. The best way I can describe it is that is like someone has laced your drink with some kind of drug. Here is what others in the community say about it: When we are talking about poor cognitive function we have to be precise and to not confuse it with just being absentminded but studies have shown there are real cognitive dysfunctions occurring with fibromyalgia. Nikki at Brainless Blogger. Experiencing fibro fog can be frustrating and stressful. I hate the brain fog more than the pain and fatigue. My anxiety goes through the roof when I can’t concentrate, feel distracted, mix up words and am unable to form a complete sentence. Sue at FibroDaze Fibro fog gets in the way of remembering basic words. I could be in the middle of speaking or typing something out and not be able to remember a word as simple as bed. I’ll end up going to Google and typing in the full description for it (or asking someone nearby -) “what’s that thing that you sleep in?”, just to get the basic word. Julie at Counting my Spoons I called the police station and was informed I'd parked blocking the driveway of an apartment complex and was towed. did what? Talk about Fibro fog! I could have swore that was a parking space, not a driveway. No wonder I found parking so easily. I had to walk to the tow place and pay a kings ransom to get my car back. Oh not good! Leah at Chronicles of Fibromyalgia. When I first started to experience it I thought it was due to a particular drug that I was taking for my pain and Fibromyalgia, so I cut down to the lowest dose but that made no difference whatsoever. Barbara at Back Pain Blog UK Unfortunately, ‘fibro fog’ is very much in your face and it’s hard not to feel embarrassed, frustrated or ashamed. Especially if it happens in front of someone who doesn’t know and doesn’t need to know about my fibromyalgia. Donna at February Stars. I have said for years now that I was worried it wasn't brainfog at all and was early onset dementia or Alzheimers. I get so confused at times and stop mid sentence totally blank with no idea what I was just saying. I ask the same thing over and over and totally forget I have, and to be honest it scares me. Jools at Fibro My Arse Ache I explain to others that I feel a thick fog taking over my brain, rusting the works. Then, in this foggy state, an invisible vampire comes and drains the energy out of my limbs, leaving them limp and heavy. Katie at Pain FULLY Living If you've got fibro then you know fibro fog and some days you are pretty clear headed and other days your brain is just not working. Donna at Fed up With Fatigue. Many people with fibro are all too aware of the “brain fog” that can happen from time to time. You can have trouble grasping words, remembering details, and have trouble remembering what you came into this room for. Brandi at Being Fibro Mom I was frantically searching for words and information in my head, feeling like I was swimming through a thick fog. My vision even felt worse at that point! It’s so difficult to explain, but I get why they call it brain fog – it really does feel like the inside of your head is filled with mist in place of a brain!! Katie at Katie Cupcake This one can be really frustrating but I sometimes find I can’t think what I have done when. I will mention something I thought I did yesterday to be told that was three days ago. I can even lose track within a day as to what I have done. Susan at Living Creatively with Fibro There’s been a thousand conversations where I’m reaching for simple words that blew away a moment before I want them. There have been even more times when I say one thing when I mean another. Sometimes I know I’ve done it, but often I don’t. Melissa at Melissa vs Fibromyalgia In the meantime my (lack of) memory has become legendary at home, but whether it is due to nonchalance, alcohol, pregnancy, fibromyalgia or old age, I still don't want to admit it. Ria at Stronger than Pain Trying to function in a head that’s so fogged up is darn scary.I had found several weeks ago the degree of forgetfulness had exacerbated. On the bus on my way home, I nearly got lost. I mean, I couldn’t remember where I was, and how to get home. Alisha at The Invisible F Fibro fog has made it so that I really hate phone calls. Phone calls are not only challenging, but I find it exhausting to focus on a phone conversation. I have a lousy short term memory, so even if I answer a telephone call, by the time I am done talking, I may have forgotten most of the conversation. Melissa at Fibro Warriors Of all the wacky things that go along with fibromyalgia, brain fog is probably the most disconcerting for me. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m retired military, and making quick, sound decisions was part of my everyday life. Now, it often takes me a while to even process what I’m supposed to be making a decision about, much less make one! Terri at Reclaiming Hope It’s like a turtle trying to run in peanut butter. Cynthia at My Inspired Fibro Life When you are in fibro-fog, it is as though you are slowly losing your mental faculties from the base up and it feels insidious and profound. It also feels, somehow, like your head is being squeezed or compressed, like you want to shake it to get all the parts to fall into the right places again. You can see words hanging there but can’t reach for them, your can’t organise your thoughts enough to set action into motion, you feel disengaged and unable to relate to people in direct communication, like you are watching them through a fogged window, your mind wanders like you are half-asleep, ordinary things startle you, you pedal in mid-air to get a foothold on you priorities and what you (dimly) thought you were meant to do today, though the remembrance of whatever that was floats like a ghost in the air. It can feel humiliating, frustrating and deeply upsetting on so many levels. Helen at Living Whole This is a cognitive impairment that causes problems such as temporary loss of memory, forgetting words or mixing up words, losing your train of thought, or saying things that don’t make sense. It can be frightening when it happens, as these are also signs of other conditions, such as Alzheimers Disease. Pamela at There Is Always Hope I often struggle to string sentences together, am increasingly clumsy and can be extremely forgetful about anything and everything. It really frustrates me, can be quite embarrassing and makes me feel stupid. It can also make me feel hungover on life. Bethan at Hello Fibro Blog There’s is nothing more frustrating to me than fibro fog. My mind just won’t think straight and it seems to just come on for no reason at all. I start switching up my homonyms and forgetting the most common words. Mandy at Mandy and Michelle I was sitting there the other day on the couch, yup, again. I was so “drunk” and cognitively impaired, I couldn’t do anything. While I have suffered for years with brain fog from Fibro, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and chronic headaches & migraines, this new found “drunkenness” and impairment with perception and spacial awareness is new. And pretty sucky. Stacey at Fighting With Fibro I forgot a word I was searching for in the doctor's yesterday and the air hung in pregnant silence. It was embarrassing, but my mind is suffering fibro brain fog and I don't look sick, so I didn't mention it. Glenys at Morning Cuppas With Glenys
In this article we will look at not only fibromyalgia (FM) itself, but the causes, symptoms, criteria for diagnosis, treatments, short and long-term effects
