Apr 15, 2020 | Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
To manage brain fog, I rely on schedules, systems, and spreadsheets. I put my reliable, responsible Capricorn nature into overdrive and schedule myself each day, each hour, with to do lists, plans, and routines. And this worked…for a while. Now that my world is...
Apr 8, 2020 | Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
In the chronic illness community there’s been a lot of talk about the every day symptoms of our conditions, what does, or doesn’t work, and how these often line up with the symptoms for other things. Like right now, Covid-19. And then, our brains play the...
Feb 20, 2020 | 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...
Jan 7, 2020 | 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,...
Dec 22, 2019 | horse stuff
This fall has been rough on me. With the sinus infection-bronchitis-pansinusitis and now my doctor tells me that my chronic sinusitis, which honestly I’ve had for years, is all a part of my fibromyalgia getting worse, not to mention the change in my work...