Archive for the ‘Pain’ Category

The Value of Education for Chronic Illness Patients

Paula Kamen, author of All In My Head, talks about the value of edu­ca­tion in cop­ing with chronic ill­ness in an excel­lent edi­to­r­ial in the New York Times. Leav­ing the Rab­bit Hole. This pas­sage, in par­tic­u­lar, spoke to me: The worst thing, to me, about hav­ing a non-stop multi-year headache isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the pain. Or […]

February 19, 2008  Tags: chronic daily headache, chronic illness, Education, migraines, Pain, Paula Kamen  Posted in: Education, Pain, Resources  One Comment

Pain cures for women; Migraines from low-energy light bulbs

I’ve had these two sto­ries book­marked to post here for a bit, so it seems past time for me to actu­ally do it. The best new pain cures, with a focus on women Many women have a tough time find­ing the right kind of relief for their pain –and for good rea­son: Until recently, experts hadn’t actually […]

January 9, 2008  Tags: CF bulbs, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, gender, light bulbs, lupus, migraines, Pain, women  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news, Pain  2 Comments

Researchers say pain from fibromyalgia is real

Not that it’s news to those of us who have it, but it’s good to be val­i­dated! Fibromyal­gia often has been mis­di­ag­nosed as arthri­tis or even a psy­cho­log­i­cal issue. Increas­ingly, though, the sci­en­tific knowl­edge about fibromyal­gia is grow­ing, and a new paper from the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Health Sys­tem says there are “over­whelm­ing data” that […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Fibromyalgia, From the news, Neurology, Pain  11 Comments

Episode 4

Episode 4 The first episode in the new, shorter for­mat, recorded on my very own micro­phone. Thank you for your patience in wait­ing for it! Most of today’s show is about audio enter­tain­ment and infor­ma­tion, which is great when the fatigue is so bad that lis­ten­ing is one of the few things we can do. Links: Audio […]

Fibrant Liv­ing 4: Audio Enter­tain­ment Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

October 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Podcast, Relaxation, Resources  No Comments

Flowers Fighting Fibromyalgia!

Orig­i­nally uploaded by ChatOmbre. This is a one flower of the lovely bou­quet in my liv­ing room right now. Sam knows how much I value fresh flow­ers, so he usu­ally brings them to me every week or two. Katie knows that I adore them, so she pho­tographs them, allow­ing me to enjoy them even longer. […]

August 5, 2006   Posted in: Beauty, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Relaxation  2 Comments