Fibromyalgia

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What is CBD? Part I | Living with Fibromyalgia

June 25, 2019

If you follow me on Facebook then you know that it has been about one month since I started incorporating CBD into my daily life and management of fibromyalgia. My foray into CBD has not been a fly by night decision but has been in the works for many years. Read More

Four Herbs to Calm Anxiety | Guest Blog by Noor Najam

July 26, 2018

Hello there! Feeling anxious lately? You would do well to know that anxiety does not only represent itself as a feeling or a state of mind, anxiety has negative impacts on your body as well. For example, your heartbeat gets faster and you sometimes lose your appetite as well. There Read More

Losing My Mind: The Debilitating Effects of Memory Loss | Living with Fibromyalgia

June 5, 2018

For most living with fibromyalgia it takes many years to come to grips with the fact that the person you once were eventually dies and a new version of the person is reborn. The checklist of what fibromyalgia steals from you mentally and physically seems to grow longer with each Read More

May Days & Productivity | Living with Fibromyalgia

May 2, 2018

Happy May to you! I don’t know about you but I am more than relieved that we seem to finally finally be across the threshold of the iron clad lock winter 2018 has had our our region. Every year my body laments the inconsistency of our weather patterns here in Read More

Dependence is Not Addiction | Living with Fibromyalgia

April 9, 2018

The war on opiods is real. Let me restate that” The war on opioids is real and those of us living with chronic pain conditions and invisible illness are at risk of losing essential medications that give us a quality of life. The war on opioids is real I say Read More

Five Alternative Therapies for Treating Fibromyalgia Pain | Living with Fibromyalgia

January 4, 2018

The best piece of advice I can give to anyone living with fibromyalgia or any other chronic illness is to take a holistic approach to managing the disease and its symptoms. In my opinion, a holistic treatment approach is the most effective way to manage chronic disease and live as Read More

What Chronic Fatigue Feels Like | Living with Fibromyalgia

December 30, 2017

I’m writing this post during what will most likely be my last chronic fatigue flare of 2017. Even though I’ve lived with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue (CFS) since 2010; every major flare seems like the first and even though mentally I handle them much better than I did in the Read More