Tag: exercise
Managing weight gain with fibromyalgia
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Fibromyalgia patients complain of many things. Among them, weight gain. Doctors say it’s quite common for people to gain at least a whooping 30 pounds in the year following diagnosis. There are a number of reasons for this, including medicinal side effects, lower metabolism, decreased activity and hypoglycaemia. Having said…
Ten Ways to Make Yourself Look Better (despite Fibromyalgia)
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Life doesn’t stop because we grapple with fibromyalgia. Some of us still go to work, have kids to take to school, shopping to do, family gatherings to attend and partners whose sides we accompany on outings. Thankfully many of us don’t wear the illness on our sleeves but sometimes it…
Hot Bikram Yoga for Fibromyalgia?
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I’d been resisting it for some time. Yoga. I can’t tell you how many times friends and acquaintances have mentioned it as a possible aid in managing symptoms of fibromyalgia and depression. No matter where I turned, it kept coming back to face me, haunting me almost:-/ Then I met…
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