Fibromyalgia: Numbness, Tingling, Pins and Needles
” The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it”, Helen Keller A condition called paresthesia results in numbness, tingling and pins and needles in the limbs, due to disturbances in...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: Trauma, Sleep disturbances, Night terrors, Sleep walking,...
“Trauma is so arresting that traumatized people will focus on it compulsively”, Peter Levine There are so many various kinds of sleep disturbances that it becomes somewhat of a check list to...
View ArticleMedications, Medications and more Medications: Fibromyalgia Medicalized
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”,Voltaire Those of us with chronic conditions are...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: the overmedicated ‘patient’
“America is one of the few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs, Robert Reich BigPharma makes huge profits from those of us suffering from chronic pain, fatigue,...
View ArticleFibromyalgia Pain Tracking
” People with chronic pain inevitably develop an intimate relationship with their pain”, Deborah Barrett The myriad of symptoms associated with fibromyalgia is vast, but chronic pain is among the most...
View ArticleThe twins: Fibromyalgia/ PTSD
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment”, Judith Lewis Herman In my book almost a decade ago,...
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