Archive for the ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ Category

Stress during pregnancy may lead to increased risk of fibromyalgia for baby girls

From a Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh School of Med­i­cine Press Release about find­ings being pre­sented at the Inter­na­tional Con­gress of Neu­roen­docrinol­ogy June 19–22, 2006: Stress­ful or trau­matic events expe­ri­enced dur­ing preg­nancy can have long-lasting effects on the fetus, yet these effects may not become appar­ent until many years later, accord­ing to a study sug­gest­ing that girls […]

June 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news  No Comments

How do you explain it?

How do you explain your ill­ness to those who don’t have it? While I haven’t come up with a good way to explain chronic fatigue syn­drome, I describe fibromyal­gia as a full-body migraine. Any­one who has ever had a migraine under­stands imme­di­ately, and most peo­ple at least know some­one who does have dis­abling migraines. If someone […]

June 7, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia  One Comment

FMS/chronic illness blogs/casts?">Other FMS/chronic illness blogs/casts?

I’ll record episode 3 as soon as my sound tech (aka Sam, my part­ner) is avail­able. Right now, though, I’m in the mood to plump up my blogroll. Sug­gest other blogs and pod­casts about fibromyal­gia, chronic fatigue, or chronic ill­ness, please! What are your favorites? Do you have one your­self? Tell me about it!

June 4, 2006   Posted in: Blogroll, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Resources  No Comments

What does “Fibrant” mean?

It’s a word that I made up, com­bin­ing “vibrant” and “fibromyal­gia.” A fibrant life is one that is well-rounded, bal­anced, as healthy as pos­si­ble, and has more joy than pain in it. The goal of this blog and pod­cast is to spread fibrancy and to sup­port each other in main­tain­ing our fibrant lives. I hope […]

May 9, 2006   Posted in: Blogroll, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia  No Comments