flares

Hello y'all! :D I'm from South Carolina, am 62 yrs. old and am living with FM snd CFS. I was diagnosed with FM and CFS in 1991. For three years I was in a wheel chair/ bedridden. That was before the doctors really knew anything about or even accepted this as an illness. I was blessed to find a...

Doctors always say put ice on sore muscles to reduce the swelling, and heat to reduce the pain. Often times, I can't decide which one my muscles actually need because they're swollen and in pain! I tend to automatically go to taking hot baths to help with my general achiness and fibro flares...

Hi new to forum hi to all having a bad few days after a few months without any bad flares of fibro it started with allergies chest problems and got worse from there.

So the day finally came for me to go and get my blood work results and talk about treatment options today. First, my blood work came back normal and negative for the list of test run to rule out autoimmune diseases and other illness that could be causing my chronic fatigue and pain. Big relief...

Hi everyone! I'm so sick of this cold weather because this winter has caused me more flares than I've probably had since I've been diagnosed. I've missed a lot of work this past winter. Last week when I was working I started noticing that it was getting hard for me to get up and down from a...

When my fibro flares up, I'm often confined to my house (or the bed) with not many options of things to do. It's so easy to get depressed in those moments. What kinds of things do you guys like to do, to keep yourself distracted? What I often do is listen to relaxing music, or if I have the...

:-(Dealing with fibro is like being in a locked closet, and fighting to get out. Today, I am spending the day in bed, eating pain killers and watching T.V. I have been working up to this for 3 days now. My bad flares generally last 7 to 10 days. I also have Osteoarthritis and degenerative disc...

I was diagnosed with Fibro in 2009 and I was just wondering if anyone has the swollen eyes and blurred vision with flares? Sometimes I have it with flares and sometimes I don't. However I can relate to the hip and butt, leg pain. It feels like a solid sheet of pain has been put on my whole...

Hi all, I have not been diagnosed with fibromyalgia (yet) as my doctors think I'm a total hypochondriac by now. I would love to hear what you all with fibromyalgia think of my symptoms.. For the past few years I've been thinking there were several different things wrong with me but now I'm...

Hello all! This past year I decided that I was going to take more control over my health and to do so, try to gain a better understanding of what was potentially causing my flares/pain. I discovered a fantastic app called fibro map (I believe it is available on both Kindle and Google Play...