Archive for the ‘Pain’ Category

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

The glory of pain management

I’ve been almost afraid to talk about it, but last week my pain man­age­ment doc­tor pre­scribed break­through pain med­ica­tion for the first time. I’ve been leery of tak­ing it too often, so I’m tak­ing it once every few days instead of once a day as directed. Mir­a­cle of mir­a­cles, though: all the pain except for […]

July 19, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  8 Comments

Fibrant Living Podcast #1

In honor of FMS/CFS Aware­ness Day 2006, here’s the very first Fibrant Liv­ing pod­cast! Fibrant Liv­ing Pod­cast #1 This is my first episode, and here are some links you may want to fol­low after lis­ten­ing to the show. Fibro­mayl­gia Aware Fibromyal­gia Net­work News Fibromyal­gia Fron­tiers Arthri­tis Today What are the bio­log­i­cal effects of acute stress? This week’s music was provided […]

Fibrant Liv­ing 1: Intro­duc­ing Fibrant Liv­ing! Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

May 12, 2006   Posted in: Pain, Podcast, Relaxation  No Comments