Distract Me (Fibromyalgia Gone Wild)
Pain relievers. Pain relief. I could go to the trusty dictionary and find the definition of relief, but I think most of us can imagine what we believe pain relief to be. Yet, for most chronic pain patients, there really isn’t any relief. The goal of pain relief...
Mast Cells and Dermatographism (Fibromyalgia Gone Wild)
I’m not allergic to cats. I have fifteen of them (yes, on purpose, kind of). And yet, I notice that if a cat is in a particular dusty area (like my office cabin – yikes!) when I got the inevitable scratch or poke because kitty bellies are so irresistible,...
Looking Outside the Diagnosis (Fibromyalgia Gone Wild)
Unless you have a really good physician, and few fibromyalgia patients do, you’ll either hear that every symptom you have is part of your fibromyalgia and there won’t be any attempts to look beyond the diagnosis (and billing code) in your chart, or...
An Introduction to Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
As I mentioned in my blog on the new schedule/writing plans, I’m beginning a weekly column entitled Fibromyalgia Gone Wild. I do this as part of my memoir, Chronically Disposable, as well as in the face of the issues that chronic pain patients are now bringing...
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