One of the biggest hurdles with chronic pain is that our bodies store memories of previous pain, which make us hyper-sensitive to future sensations, like pain. One extreme example of this is phantom-limb pain – where a person feels current pain in a limb that has previously been amputated as if it had never been [...]

What is Fibro Feelings? It seems as though my bursitis is stuck at this new level of pain that is worse than I was in February, but a lot better than I was October thru mid-January. I still have a week to go before I could get in with my Rheumatologist, so I think I’m [...]

I was happy to hear Dr. Oz was going to talk about fibromyalgia on his show again. I’ve always wished he would devote more time to it since he not only has the power to bring awareness to the syndrome, but also can influence others about misconceptions. When I saw it was included in an [...]

Previously, I wrote about how important the doctor-patient relationship is. In this post I’m going to talk about tips and tools for finding a great doctor, if you don’t currently have one. This task is especially difficult if you have fibromyalgia due to the energy needed to do this and the fact that not all [...]