Hi Fibro Friends
This week I sent messages
to all the website owners that I had included links to in the FMS eNews since
it started at the beginning of December 2012 – almost 30 of them – to let them
know that I am passing on their information to you all. There have been some interesting responses! Many of the items this week are a spin-off
from this exercise. For some sites it
may be necessary for you to Register before access is allowed.
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WORDz FOR THE WEEK
101.
Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.
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Fibromodem has invited my
FMS eNews to be listed in its Directory of Bloggers called ‘Fibromyalgia
Community Knowledge’. It is for
blogs that educate, support, enlighten, inform, inspire and motivate people
about and with Fibromyalgia. This is
comparatively new, and growing. A very
useful resource.
Join the Visible Army. Making the Invisible Visible
We have over 700 members
of the VISIBLE Army at the moment. Not
all members use their photo as their profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter,
etc. and that’s understandable.
BUT I am
asking everyone to upload their VISIBLE Army photos to their profile
picture on the 12th of EVERY month, until May, when we do it for the whole
month of May (International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day is May 12), to encourage
and support Fibromyalgia Awareness.
If you want help creating
yours, email me your photo and I’ll do
it for you.
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Celeste Cooper is a Fibromyalgia Health
Expert. Her blog - These Three - Author,
Patient, Pain Advocate
Here’s one that is in the
directory. Celeste says
‘The term
used to describe a disease or syndrome can have a tremendous impact on the way
it is perceived and treated. We look forward to a name change, especially in
light of the developing research.’
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Pati Chandler - Managing Fibromyalgia
Pati writes a blog reporting on her fibromyalgia support group
meetings. She uses the same blogspot
background that I used to use for FMSSAS eNews, so don’t be confused by this!
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Green Med Info
The World's Largest, Open
Access, Natural Medicine Database with 20,061 study abstracts indexed and
growing daily. View our mission
statement
This commonly overlooked superfood protects the
body from nuclear fallout, kills a wide range of cancers, and keeps the
arteries unclogged -- to name but a few, experimentally confirmed ways in which
the apple awakens your inner physician.
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-apple-one-worlds-most-healing-superfoods
Are you suffering from a deficiency of Music?
Music has been
demonstrated to have benefits as treatment for illness. Sometimes it is
dismissed as if it were 'anecdotal evidence'. In truth, music is a healthicine.
Anecdotal evidence is one of the most uninformed and mis-used phrases by the
commercial medical interests - but that should be the subject of another blog
post.
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CounterThink - The Sick Care Economy
Cartoons with a
message. This one is quite apt for this
blog. Quite illuminating even though USA
orientated! See it and it’s
explanation.
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Natural News.com
News and Health Topics on
the Health Ranger’s Radar
Seven healthy habits to
begin the new year
(NaturalNews) Now that
this long holiday season is over, it's time to review our resolutions or
contemplate how we should begin working toward changing our bad health habits
into good ones. If you haven't made any resolutions yet, or if you're
questioning the integrity of what you've considered, here are seven suggestions
(with subdivisions).
The five best home remedies
for colds, coughs and the flu
(NaturalNews) From the
pantry to the bedside, home remedies you can make in a snap help prevent
seasonal colds or cure a stubborn case of the flu.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Fibromyalgia - What CBT May be
Able to Do for You
Cognitive behavioral
therapy (CBT) is a frequently recommended treatment for fibromyalgia
(FMS). It's also one of the better-researched non-drug treatments for the
illness.
What Bed is Best With Fibromyalgia?
What kind of mattress do
you have? Is it comfortable? This becomes an important question when you have
both the chronic pain and sleep problems that come with fibromyalgia.
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The Cognitive Impact of Fibromyalgia - How
Fibromyalgia Leads to Impaired Mental Processing
Fibromyalgia
is a physiological medical and psychological condition with very clear and life
debilitating symptoms. While fibromyalgia symptoms may vary from one individual
to another, fibromyalgia, for all sufferers, can lead to debilitating health
complications which then lead to impaired daily living and, to some extent, an
inability to engage in gainful employment.
For many fibromyalgia sufferers,
one such aspect of fibromyalgia seems to have the greatest impact on the very
basic activities of daily living. Involving the development of what is commonly
referred to as "brain fatigue", or simply, a cognitive impairment,
fibromyaglia sufferers are most at odds as to how to medically and
psychologically treat this sudden and severe cognitive lethargy when it sets
in.
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FMS & Lupus Online Support Group
A community of patients,
family members and friends dedicated to dealing with FMS & Lupus, together.
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Common Signs And Symptoms Of Fibromyalgia
If you are not sure of the
symptoms of fibromyalgia, look no further . . .
For centuries, fibromyalgia
was a mystery illness. Although it’s been studied since the late 1800s, the
condition wasn’t even named until the 1970s. Theories about the cause of
fibromyalgia and what symptoms were truly caused by it were thrown around for
decades, but the majority of research was only confirmed in recent decades.
January 2013
Foods for Fibromyalgia Newsletter
A Note From Dr. Dee
Happy, happy new year!
I hope you had delicious holidays and took some time to yourself to acknowledge yourself for all the great things you did this past year. Now it's time to get inspired and excited for what's to come. What are you cooking up? Does your intention for the new year relate to increasing your health and wellbeing, improving your energy, having less pain, better sleep, or balancing your weight? What steps will you take to achieve better health and reduce symptoms or sickness? I want to know!
Read more . . . .
Stop Pain & Fatigue - Using the Healing
Power of Food & Nutrition
How to...
Stop Chronic Pain with Food & Herbs!
FREE
Audio Reveals 10 Most Potent Solutions!
Will A Cleanse Help Accelerate Healing on a
Gluten Free Diet?
Performing a Gluten Free
Detox Cleanse…
It’s that time of year
again, and many people are renewing their efforts to improve their
health. Some of the most common New Year’s Resolutions are: . . . . . .
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January 8th News Billetin
Dear reader,Welcome to our first newsletter of 2013, we hope you had a good Christmas and New Year. 2013 is set to be hugely exciting year for OHC and we are truly delighted to be working on some major announcements for a few months time!
For
our first newsletter, we have the latest chapter in our book,
"Psychology and ME/CFS: An A-Z Guide" which we
are releasing one chapter at a time online. This chapter is all about
creating space to support your recovery - you can read it at A-Z: Creating Space.
Please do let us know what you think!
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I hope that, wherever you
are, you have not been suffering from an overdose of rain. We have actually seen the sunshine on the odd
occasion which is somewhat encouraging.
It helps us to remember to look on the bright side of life.
Best wishes to you all
Stella
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N.B. I would
like to point out to you that the information in my 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.
This eNews is my
personal offering to fibromyalgia sufferers and their carers and is not related
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