potofcallaloo, Author at The Invisible F

Borderline personality disorder C-PTSD Challenges Depression Mental health

Why do we stay?

I wish there was an easy answer to this. For those of us who struggle, who want to leave, who don’t feel like we belong.

Meds & Remedies

I tried floatation therapy for the first time

potofcallaloo November 17, 2021 No Comments floatation tank floatation tank benefits floatation therapy floatation therapy for anxiety and stress floatation therapy for chronic pain floatation therapy for fibromyalgia Mental health sensory deprivation tank

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I agreed to try a floatation tank for the first time. Without knowing much about it, just seeing the tank with the soothing blue lighting gave me the feeling that the future was here and I was stepping into a science fiction novel.

Challenges

The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!

potofcallaloo October 29, 2021 No Comments change in season fibromyalgia chronic pain compassion coping with fibromyalgia coping with fibromyalgia pain fatigue fibromyalgia fibromyalgia and fatigue fibromyalgia pain fibromyalgia painkillers pain self-love stabbing pain throbbing pain

As the autumn air ushers out the summer sun I, like many of my friends around the world living with fibromyalgia reel from a flare…

Food therapy (recipes) Meds & Remedies

Dhal (the Trinidadian way)

potofcallaloo October 11, 2021 6 Comments dhal food therapy healthy recipes vegetarian warming dish

To this day, when I’m feeling unwell or needing something nourishing, dhal remains my go-to soup. Aside from its rich protein contents, I love that it has turmeric which is great for pain and inflammation.

Challenges

A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia

potofcallaloo October 4, 2021 2 Comments anxiety chest pain chronic health problems chronic pain fibromyalgia fibromyalgia and insomnia fibromyalgia and sleep fibromyalgia symptoms insomnia lack of sleep Mental health migraines sleep problems

Monday 4 October 2021, 1.27am Luckily for me I don’t have work later today, because it is 1.27am and I am wide awake. I am…

Challenges

‘Thought I was going crazy’ – fibromyalgia patients on the impact of not being able to regulate their own body temperature

potofcallaloo August 1, 2021 4 Comments embarrassing chronic health symptoms embarrassing fibromyalgia symptoms excessive sweating Fibro night sweats fibro sweating fibromyalgia and sweating fibromyalgia sweat glands fibromyalgia symptoms fibromyalgia temperature fibromyalgia temperature dysregulation strange fibre symptoms temperature dysregulation

[Feature image: Yes that is me sweating like I’ve run a marathon. No I didn’t] People living with fibromyalgia have described how the often overlooked…

Challenges Moods

Advocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmune

potofcallaloo July 4, 2021 4 Comments autoimmune fibromyalgia fibromyalgia autoimmune fibromyalgia research is fibromyalgia autoimmune latest fibromyalgia research

I welcome the new research (any research really, please) that suggests fibromyalgia may be “an autoimmune response that increases the activity of pain-sensing nerves throughout…

Meds & Remedies

Free Yoga for Fibromyalgia challenge

potofcallaloo July 4, 2021 No Comments Image fibromyalgia yoga yoga for fibromyalgia

These are five yoga tools that we can use daily to help with pain and tension. All made by a fibro body for fibro bodies

Meds & Remedies

Garlic tea for gastritis and acid reflux chest pain

potofcallaloo May 25, 2021 No Comments acid reflux remedies alternative remedies burning chest pain remedy chest pain remedy garlic tea gastritis gastritis pain remedy GERD herbal remedies how to ease acid reflux pain how to ease gastritis pain stomach pain remedy

I’ve suffered from severe gastritis and GORD related stomach pains since I was a child, and whenever medicine failed to provide relief, I knew there…

Challenges Depression Mental health

How a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipice

potofcallaloo May 9, 2021 2 Comments anxiety Depression grief love Mental health Mental Health Awareness Week nature therapy suicidal ideation suicide

Last June, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, I wanted to die. Quite suddenly, I had lost my Ma. Grief fed my…