Showing posts with label chronic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chronic. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

I Make Mistakes

I make mistakes. Lots of them. Since my accident that resulted in a TBI and then fibro it means I make more than I ever did and I get so frustrated by it at times. One of the greatest mistakes is not admitting my limits-even to myself. I "forget" I am not the person that I was pre-accident/fibro and I push myself to do more, better, faster or "like I did before."

Friday, July 24, 2015

An Essential Oil Blend For Fibromyalgia & More



Fibromyalgia can kick you from here to the end of the block and back again. Boosting serotonin is one way to help deal with pain, sleeplessness, depression, gut motility, endocrine function and a slew of other issues faced by those of us who suffer from Fibro. 

Lately there is a lot of hype about essential oil usage, namely because of the marketing skills of a certain company whose name sounds a lot like Toe-Derra. I take personal issue with their tactics and even some or their recommendations. I won't get into them in any great detail here, however, I have always believed in the power of natural medicines and am happy to provide this information for a blend that works for some of my Fibro issues. I feel it is a good option for relief of some of my own issues and thought it might be appropriate for others.

Your mileage may vary of course-please do not take what information I am giving here as set in stone and certainly do not use it in place of your own physicians advice or prescription for your health. 

Saturday, December 27, 2014

How I "Caught" Fibromyalgia


How it all started...


While fibro is not something you can contract from another person or persons there are links to it being hereditary. I believe my paternal grandmother, my mother and father all suffered from it but it was at a time long before anyone ever thought to diagnose this syndrome. 


My sister also had fibro. She was the first diagnosed person that I knew who suffered from it and it was that diagnosis that first brought my attention to this chronic condition. Because she had the illness I researched it, trying to find something that might help her. I recognized that I probably had a "touch of it" but did not want to admit that I was experiencing the same illness she had because it seemed to anger her that I would say such a thing. She told me I could not possibly have fibro because my symptoms were not completely the same as hers. Had she only known then what I know now, but she never will as she has passed on.