When one thinks of Vegas they think of constant bright, flashing lights, noises from gaming machines, high energy shows, enormous buffets and tons of walking. Obviously those images are not the ones that people with fibromyalgia are typically drawn to. In fact, we usually would try to avoid them! Still, curiosity (or a wedding or [...]

What is Fibro Feelings? I went to the rheumatologist yesterday and I finally feel like we’re getting somewhere with my hip! Woo-hoo! I had another ultrasound done, but in a different area of my hip. There are two areas that are causing lots of pain when my rheumatologists pushes on them, but the worse one [...]

In the November-December 2010 Arthritis Today magazine there was an article entitled Pain Relief, 15 ways to go beyond the bottle to conquer arthritis pain.. Dorothy Foltz-Gray’a article covered many options and I will be discussing 6 of the treatments I feel are more related to fibromyalgia. Heat/Cold – I think these may be the [...]

What is Fibro Feelings? For the past 2-2.5 weeks my wrists have been in a flare-up. I’ve had intense burning, throbbing wrist pain. It was so bad I had to take an opioid pain killer  just to dull the pain enough to be able to fall asleep one night. Of course, this flare-up happened while my parents were in [...]