Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Ann’s Journey
Diagnosed!! By Sabrina Ann Hawkins: I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (FM) in 2015. My journey has been very long and tiring. I will make my story short. It began in November of 2014. I was having all over nerve [...]
(LDN) Low-Dose Naltrexone
Have you heard about the use of Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) to decrease symptoms in people with fibromyalgia? Recently a series of studies at Stanford University, and reported online in Pain Medicine, found that the drug reduced the severity [...]
Sleep Helps to Reduce FM Symptoms
By Nikola Weisman Sleep and Worsening FM Symptoms Researchers have found that more than 90% of FM patients struggle with sleep disturbances, which correlates with pain severity. According to an article on the relationship between sleep and FM posted [...]
Pain Management for Fibromyalgia
Stop the Pain By: Paula Ehmer In my 40's I started to experience headaches and muscle spasms in my sides that would take my breath away and I would get close to blacking out. I finally went to the [...]
Got Grief? I Got Relief!
Grief Solution at Movies with Nancy “to Manage Your Mind and Heal Your Heart” ™ Covid19 has been a heart-breaking trigger for loss and grief worldwide. I feel it a lot personally and professionally in many different ways. One of [...]
One Long Journey With Fibromyalgia
My Long Journey By: Candy Bashore My long journey with Fibromyalgia started 29 years ago. I was 27 and had endured 3 surgeries in the span of 4 months. I had a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old, and my last [...]
Apply Those Lessons Learned From the Past!
Lessons Learned By: Lynne Matallana There was a time in my life when I was obsessed with the clock on my bedroom wall. As I spent day after day lying in bed, feeling completely defeated by fibromyalgia, I would [...]
What do You Whisper in Your Own Ear?
By: © Nancy M. Gordon LCSW, CLC “If you don’t like something, CHANGE IT; if you can’t change it, CHANGE the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit (21st century American artist) This is clearly the winning mental health [...]
Young And Different to Be So Young
Young! By: Emily Hope My story is a little different than others mainly because I’m so young, so here it goes. When I was only 5, I began to notice my fingers were bigger than normal and noticed my [...]
Wired so Weird
Wired! By: Kathleen Kerry Wired so Weird. At about age 9, I experienced strong sudden pain in my chest. After seeing a couple of specialists, I was told by the pediatrician that it was probably growing pains. This pattern [...]
Injury on the Job, Developed Fibromyalgia
By: Bobbie Sanders I worked for EDD as a key data operator and was injured on the job. I had to have rotary cuff surgery due to being misdiagnosed after surgery. I woke up in severe pain and after [...]
Research on Fibromyalgia, Sara Devoto
In this video Sara Devoto Talks about her research on Fibromyalgia. She is an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has suffered with Fibro herself for many years. She talks about her research and thanks all [...]
