Living with the Shame of Fibromyalgia
Living with the Shame of Fibromyalgia By: Kari Hillborn Coping with any chronic illness is intense but when it's an invisible illness, the shame dial gets cranked right up! Our defenses and reactions to life become enhanced, as we are [...]
Diagnosed With Fibromyalgia When I was 39
Diagnosed With Fibromyalgia When I Was 39 By: Robbie Mosinger I Was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when I was 39 years old. About 20 years ago I was in the grocery store, leaning on the basket, when I realized I [...]
Lynne Matallana Interviews Dr. Afton Hassett
Lynne Matallana Founder and President of the National Fibromyalgia Association Interviews Doctor Afton Hassett on how to live life more positive!
Have Compassionate and Supportive People in Your Life?
By: Nikola Weisman While medicine holds the power to cure people, care that is delivered with kindness and compassion can speed the healing process and lead to better outcomes for patients. Those who show compassion and offer reassurance can [...]
Happiness – The First Day of my Self-Help Group
Happiness - The First Day of my Self-Help Group By: Rosaria Mastronardo We humans are always looking for happiness. But what is happiness? Why are we always so damned conditioned to have to reach it at all costs? We often hear from [...]
Refused to Let it Take my Joy
Refused to let it Take My Joy By: Michelle Thum I have spent more than half of my life living with fibromyalgia. It has not always been easy, but I refused to let it take my joy. I have learned [...]
Why Does Avoiding Sugar Help People with Fibromyalgia?
Avoiding Sugar Helps By: Nikola Weisman When you are living with fibromyalgia, you may often find yourself giving into sugar cravings, especially when your energy fuel tank is low. When living with pain, it’s easy to become inactive, gain weight, become [...]
Low Dose Naltrexone & Fibromyalgia
By: Sajad Zalzala, MD What is Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)? Low Dose Naltrexone more commonly known as LDN. is an oral medication scientifically-proven to reduce chronic inflammation, autoimmunity, fatigue, and chronic pain. Initially Naltrexone prescribed at doses of 50mg [...]
Finally Someone to Care
By: Lauryn East Will somebody care? In February of 2014 I was t-boned at an intersection by a texting driver. For nearly three years, I spent about 10 hours a month going back and forth between doctors’ offices and [...]
A Wonderful Life Sentence
Turning Lemons into Lemonade By: Jennifer Miles One of life's biggest lemons for me, which has allowed me to make tons of lemonade out of it would have to be… given a wonderful life sentence of an incurable disease! [...]
National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2021
NFA intern Nikola Weisman interviews long time NFA member Angie Schmucker about this years Awareness Day event “Turning Lemons into Lemonade."
Taught By My 3 Legged Dog
How Pink Taught Me ©2021 By Nancy Gordon, LCSW “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response, lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Victor Frankl, Austrian [...]
