Category: Fibromyalgia
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My Top Twelve Tips for Healing Insomnia
Does fibromyalgia cause insomnia or does insomnia cause fibromyalgia? I do not have a definitive answer. However, I do know that insomnia can wreak havoc on health and well being. I first succumbed to fibromyalgia in 2003, and insomnia took hold of my life for seven long years. 23 years later, my lifestyle has completely changed and…
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Life Lessons on the Importance of Slow
Busy as a Bee I come from a long line of busy people; both my parents worked extremely hard to provide for our family. The first forty years of my life embraced their hard work ethic, but after my father’s untimely death in 1995, I took the decision to leave my busy natural medicines practise…
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10 Tips for Living with Fibromyalgia or Another Life Changing Illness
In 2010, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that affects millions of people around the globe. The majority of them are women. As yet, there is no cure. I had enjoyed a successful career as a natural medicines therapist and teacher, but fibromyalgia forced me to stop working for 2 years, reassess my…
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My Journey through Long Covid
Millions of people around the globe are suffering from long Covid, which can affect every organ in the body. I have been one of them. In 2020, I posted my initial experiences with Covid-19 HERE and HERE My symptoms on this journey have included: Investigations I attended the Accident and Emergency Department of our local…
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My Long Covid Journey Begins
The two weeks I had visualized as a Spring break did not go according to plan. Instead, I spent four days and nights in hospital. The Virus Last month I shared my experience of symptoms which appeared to be Covid-19 in Thank You for Helping Me to Navigate the Virus Although significantly better, I continued…
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Thank You for Helping Me to Navigate the Virus
After two days of extreme fatigue, followed by a sore throat, I wondered, could this be the dreaded virus? Surely not! A day later a burning/tingling sensation and a tightness gripped my left lung and ribs, and I sensed it moving to my lower right lung/ribs. My hands, feet and the lymph glands in my…
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S.A.D. – Seasonal Affective Disorder
A little switch turns on in my brain every year, somewhere around the end of February. It seems to occur when the days lengthen and my body soaks up the extra light. Indeed, I become a different person! S.A.D. or Seasonal Affective Disorder I am one of millions of people who suffer from S.A.D or…
Watching the Daisies 