Archive for the year 2012
Restless Leg Syndrome
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) or Willis-Ekbom disease is a common overlapping condition to fibromyalgia. This is a big deal because we already deal with poor sleep and if we also have RLS we can treat that directly and probably improve our sleep. Improving sleep has been shown to also improve fibromyalgia symptoms overall. I was evaluated [...]
Posted: December 13th, 2012 under Advice.
Tags: Choose Your Move, Dr. Donnica Moore, Leg, Pain, Restless Legs Syndrome, Sleep, Willis-Ekbom disease
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Fibro Feelings – O Christmas Tree
What is Fibro Feelings? My Christmas tree is up! I love Christmas and live Christmas trees, so this is really exciting to me. Let me say, it is much harder to get/put up a live tree with fibromyalgia while being in the third trimester of pregnancy! I tried to spread it out a bit so [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2012 under Fibro Feelings.
Tags: Back, Christmas, Feet, Pain
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Tips & Tools for Sleeping Well – Part V
Previously, I’ve talked about how melatonin effects sleep and some ways to take it supplementally. For some people they end up taking a dose of melatonin that is so high/strong that it ends up causing troublesome side effects during the day time. Some ways to get a lower, effective dose are by consuming food products [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2012 under Advice.
Tags: Insomnia, Melatonin, Sleep, Tools
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Fibro Feelings – Busy, Busy!
What is Fibro Feelings? Over the past week I put all my Thanksgiving/fall decorations away and put up almost all my Christmas ones. Although all my decoration storage tubs are put away our table is covered in ornaments for when we get our tree. Maybe that will motivate The Helpful Hubby to want to help [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2012 under Fibro Feelings.
Tags: Back, Christmas, Pain, Pregnancy, Sciatica
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