In my previous post, Irritable Bowel Syndrome I wrote, “The pain from IBS can be very extreme and can awaken one from deep sleep.” Sure, waking up to abdominal cramps in the middle of the night doesn’t sound pleasant, but I wanted to describe in more detail what it is like. I usually awaken from a [...]

What is Fibro Feelings? Last weekend was gorgeous and great! Friday night I was feeling pretty tired, so we decided last minute to go out to dinner and had some deep dish pizza. YUM! On Saturday the sun was shining and the views were great! The Helpful Hubby and I met a group of friends [...]

One of the problems those with fibromyalgia face is thinking through their fibro fog. Fibro fog is known by quite a few terms: brain fog, cognitive dysfunction, mental fog, mental fuzziness and dis-cognition. It manifests itself in an array of ways: confusion, forgetfulness, word mix-ups (seeing/hearing/saying one word instead of another), concentration problems, poor word recalls, [...]

What is Fibro Feelings? I was SO excited when I looked at my calendar and realized that I did not have anything scheduled February 4th-13th! I cannot even remember the last time I didn’t have one thing scheduled for that many days! Seeing this gave me a renewed sense of energy that I used to [...]