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150. You'll only say life is not worth living because you don't have 'the right' shoes once ..... until you see someone with no feet.
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From Adrienne Dellwo
Most of us have heard a slew of thoughtless, hurtful, inaccurate comments about our illness(es.) Is there a way to make them stop? Get some ideas for what we can all do, below.Also this week, a few things you might like to know about food and your symptoms, and a look at your feedback about what you'd like more of in 2014.
Information about some of our symptoms and how to deal with them is down in Featured Articles.
http://specials.about.com/service/newsletters/chronicfatigue/3052cb0b85000113f80025fb.htm
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Fibromyalgia Pain
Whether you are experiencing painful tender points, deep muscle pain, chronic headaches, unending back pain, or neck pain, you know how fibromyalgia feels. People with fibromyalgia experience pain in ways no one else can really understand. But what is pain? What causes it? Is fibromyalgia pain acute (short term) or chronic (long term)? And what impact does fibromyalgia pain have on every part of your life?
http://www.webmd.com/fibromyalgia/guide/fibromyalgia-pain?ecd=wnl_fib_010714&ctr=wnl-fib-010714_ld-stry&mb=
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11 Tips for Living With Chronic Pain
1. Learn deep breathing or meditation to help with chronic pain.
Deep breathing and meditation are techniques that help your body relax, which eases pain. Tension and tightness seep from muscles as they receive a quiet message to relax.
Read this and 10 more here
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/11-tips-for-living-with-chronic-pain?ecd=wnl_cbp_010714&ctr=wnl-cbp-010714_ld-stry&mb=
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Life is Not Fair, But Can You Still be Happy? by Rebecca Richmond
My clients often say things like "I wish I had your life; I wish I was you" and whilst I can understand this, because I have a great life and don't know anyone happier than me, I do have to question them on their logic.
• Would they really want to work with people as I do?
• Is public speaking something they would really enjoy?
• Despite being very healthy, I am constantly monitored to ensure my tumors don't return, would they really
want this invasive monitoring?
In reality, what they really mean is they wish they could be as happy as I am ... and that is entirely achievable
because how happy we are is directly related to the things we think about.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17459523/FMS_eNews/Forget_Fibro-14.01.11.pdf
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Will Leading Technology Help us With Chronic Illness?
http://seekingthegiftsoffibromyalgia.blogspot.com.au/
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Oh What a Pain in the…
A humorous, no holds barred look at life with physical and emotional pain.
Several months ago I made the conscious decision to cut back on the narcotics I was taking to control my chronic pain. For two and a half years I have been prescribed a variety of medications, including narcotic to control my pain. I made this decision, on my own, for various reasons, most of them financial (being that I won’t be able to afford pain management and prescriptions following my divorce next month), but also because I realized that the medication was no longer very effective in treating my pain. When a pain management appointment a few months ago led to discussions about increased dosages and very strong medications, I realized that at age 34, I was heading down a slippery slope. If my pain was not being controlled now, what would happen if my much degenerated spine were to need another surgery requiring pain medication in later years? The answer: I would be out of options.
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Daily Newsletter, Jan. 3rd, 2013
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Kindest regards
Stella
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Contact: fmsstella@gmail.com
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N.B. I would like to point out to you that the information in my FMS eNews blog is passed on to you mainly from other sources. Links are given to the original articles. I take no responsibility for their accuracy but freely give them publicity if I think they might be of interest to my readership. Sites I refer you to are for information only. They might conflict in their opinions, they might not even be medically sound, but I merely offer them for you to peruse and make your own judgements, accept or reject as you will. Only by reading widely can we get an overall picture of fibromyalgia syndrome and how we can deal with its symptoms, learn to cope with them and still have a life. Any advice or recommendation of a medical or legal nature should always be discussed with a qualified professional.
I also include various awareness items, benefits issues, as well as general health considerations. Anyone wishing to reproduce any of the included items in printed form should seek permission from the originators.
Wordz for the Week are from ‘Wordz for the Day’ by Donnie Kuhn, Sr. who died in May 2011.
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