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…
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Category: Challenges
A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia
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…
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‘Thought I was going crazy’ – fibromyalgia patients on the impact of not being able to regulate their own body temperature
[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…
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Advocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmune
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…
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How a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipice
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…
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International Women’s Day: Choose to challenge
As if facing a barrage of inequalities, and discrimination in our relationships, communities and workplaces isn’t enough, inequalities facing women also extend to our health;…
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How to get through Christmas 2020
I think it’s fair to say that many people are dreading Christmas of 2020. It’s been a rotten year, yes, and to add more rottenness,…
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Why World Mental Health is even more important this year
World Mental HealthDay 2020. Where to even start?
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Fibromyalgia and chronic pain patients in for battle over painkillers
For those of us who were diagnosed with fibromyalgia during that time when doctors knew little of it and said things like, “it’s all in your head,” or ‘just be thankful you’re not dying of cancer” like that New York City doctor once said to me, this will be reminiscent of those dark periods of when we were prescribed antidepressants and daily exercise and sent on our way.
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How not to lose your mind during the Coronavirus pandemic
The Coronavirus is testing more than our resilience. It’s trying our humanity. My generation and many younger ones would not have experienced anything like it…
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