Archive for the ‘Fibromyalgia’ Category

Long term opiate use safe; One woman’s experience with Savella

There are two great arti­cles from Karen Lee Richards in HealthCentral’s Chronic Pain Con­nec­tion newslet­ter today. The first, One Patient’s Expe­ri­ence with Savella for Fibromyal­gia, Richards brings us detailed feed­back from one of her con­tacts, Brenda, who has been tak­ing the new drug for seven weeks. Many of us have heard of Savella, but so […]

December 3, 2009  Tags: chronic pain, Forest Tennant, Karen Lee Richards, opiates, Savella  Posted in: Fibromyalgia, Pain, Resources, treatments  6 Comments

NOT related to FMS!">Abortion is NOT related to FMS!

I detest igno­rant big­ots. And I absolutely con­sider the fol­low­ing hate speech: So like an HPV diag­no­sis in some­one would almost guar­an­tee that oth­ers would know the person’s poten­tial morals or lack there of, and HIV almost always denotes a gay man, a diag­no­sis of fibromyal­gia could poten­tially indi­cate a woman who has aborted a […]

June 3, 2008  Tags: abortion, bigots, Fibromyalgia, hate speech  Posted in: Fibromyalgia  One Comment

Fibromyalgia or Depression?

There are many peo­ple, espe­cially doc­tors, who claim that fibromyal­gia is just a symp­tom of depres­sion. I’ve had both, and I know the dif­fer­ence quite well. They are very, very dif­fer­ent. Being in pain all the time can cer­tainly lead to depres­sion. That’s just log­i­cal. There are, how­ever, peo­ple who have fibromyal­gia who are not […]

May 24, 2008  Tags: depression, Fibromyalgia, FMS, psychology  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  4 Comments

Interview: Chronic Pain and Sex

The inter­view we did is up! Chronic Pain and Sex: a Couple’s Gen­tle Bat­tle With Fibromyal­gia I’m pleased with it. There are very few, mostly imma­te­r­ial inaccuracies.

May 14, 2008  Tags: chronic pain, intimacy, relationships, sex  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news, Pain  No Comments

FMS/CFW Awareness Day!">Whoops! Yesterday was FMS/CFW Awareness Day!

I intended to post and maybe even try to get a pod­cast out, but ended up using my energy to do an inter­view with a reporter. I don’t know when the piece will come out (it wasn’t for aware­ness day–that was just an amus­ing coin­ci­dence), but I’ll let you know when/if I hear any­thing. She […]

May 13, 2008  Tags: Awareness Day, May 12  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia  No Comments