May 12th, is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and for this day, I have decided to tackle one question I constantly receive. Question: How can you figure skate/compete while having fibromyalgia/being in constant pain? Point A: I will throw this out there right away…I am probably one of the more stubborn people you’ll ever meet. When I…
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Fibromyalgia: What the body goes through during a flare
Fibromyalgia is one of the stronger illnesses I have been diagnosed with. Yet, before posting anything on the website about the disease, I wanted to wait until a flare hit. The flare has been going up and down for the past few days, but now that it is in full effect, I am ready to…
Reward of setting goals with an illness
Blank Pain Stare? Do you know what that is? When you are in so much pain you cannot laugh or cry. All you can do is stare blankly at nothing and wait for the pain to pass…whether it takes hours or weeks. Sometimes sleep temporarily helps, other times nothing..and I mean nothing helps. Sometimes when…
Paingry: The effect pain has on moods
Chronic Pain comes with all sorts of secondary effects on the human body. One can only take so much for so long before it breaks them. For those who don’t understand; Imagine: you are at home on a friday night, with a really bad cold and instead of being allowed to relax you have to…
Deidre Matthews 