Pain is My Pal
By, Pati Norman In 2014 after being in crippling pain and suffering from anxiety from it, I 'demanded' answers from my PCP. She drew blood. Sent samples to Mayo in Rochester. Came back a month later with "high risk [...]
Never Felt Young
By Laura Jones It all began around the age of six. I had scarlet fever at this time, which had me down for quite a while. After this tough bout of illness, I remember having headaches very often, even [...]
Thanks For The Prison Sentence Doctor!!
By, Jennifer Miles The last several years, my journey reminds me of much like being handed a life sentence in a prison and you did absolutely nothing to be given such a harsh punishment! When people ask me what [...]
In Memory of Dr Robert M Bennett
From Katrina Wagstaff (daughter of Dr. Robert M. Bennett) Since 1980, my father, Dr. Robert M. Bennett, did so much to bring awareness to Fibromyalgia, at a time when little was known about the disease and doctors told women, [...]
So, You Feel Better—Now What?
By Margit Crane, Feeling exhausted, enduring surprising levels of pain, accepting new limitations—these are the challenges of the newly diagnosed fibro patient. As the months or years pass, we learn to describe ourselves as “ill.” It is disheartening to [...]
Science of Fibromyalgia
Understanding Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia: A Review of Recent Discoveries By The Late: Robert M. Bennett MD, FRCP Fibromyalgia tends to be treated rather dismissively, sometimes with cynical overtones. When I trained in London some 30 years ago, this [...]
It’s a Stretch
By Anita Boser “I have to stretch every day to feel my best. It makes me more fluid and relaxed [and] less stodgy, and gives me energy,” says Diane Lewis, who was an avid backpacker and kayaker, before she [...]
Living with Pain in Texas
By: Jessica Sanchez, In 2005 I was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, hospitalization for 2 weeks. Took 3 months to finally be able to walk on my own. I had 2 relapses between 2005-2012. In 2012 I was diagnosed with [...]
My Fibro Journey
By: Diane Bierbrauer, I'm one of the luckier ones that have flares mainly in fall and springtime with a few in between. But when I flare, I really flare. Living in Wisconsin there are extreme weather changes from 90 [...]
Getting The Right Help!
By: Susan Wolf My ten-year struggle with fibromyalgia began while I was working as an RN. I worked per diem in surgery at a busy surgical center. My work was stressful at times, but I enjoyed the fellow staff. I [...]
A Possible New Treatment for Fibromyalgia
“Research concerning new treatments for fibromyalgia and chronic pain are ongoing. The problem is that many of the individuals living with these conditions don’t even know that the research is taking place. Caleb Cummings, contacted the NFA and asked if [...]
