Comments on: Blogging through the pain

By: linkwheel

linkwheel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:17:38 +0000

linkwheel—To motivate self for going forward we have to consider keeping a balance and not push to hard…

By: le corbusier

le corbusier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:31:02 +0000

keeping things balanced is very important to keep you going, especially if you are doing stuffs on the computer. you should be aware of your health and don’t push your self to the limits.

By: Terese

Terese — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:13:32 +0000

I HAD fibro myalgia and was one of the first to get it back in 1990. I had to deal with doctors who had no idea what was going on and basically said I was not sick. I went from running four miles a day to not be able to walk or make a bed. I am a type A personality and my mother is TYPE triple AAA, born in Nazi Germany and worked since she was 14, I am my mothers daughter, so this really irked me and of course I had to get an illness which there is no sympathy, because you don’t LOOK SICK. But it took me seven years and at 10 years to be back to where I started and better. They told me I would never be able to do anything I once did such as exercising or even hold a full time job. DONT listen to them. I first went to a nutritionist and did 7 colonics (fasted) for seven days. I felt much better, then I went to an acupuncturist in Pasadena California (chinese lady, couldn’t speak english only via her son translating) but she basically healed me. I did acupuncture 2-3 days a week and did some herbs (don’t know what they were, but desperate to get healed) The first day I went I slept like a baby (I literally did not sleep for 7 years) I cried that day and will not forget that moment. So I tell you, you can get rid of it and you have to change diet and rest. Do not take the pharmacetical, my doctor use to give them to me and I never took them (build up a high tolerance of pain). I am forty nine and I run 4 miles a day and walk 2. I am doing better than I did prior to my illness. Cut out sugar and please diet cokes are the big demons, the ingredient phytalklines(cant’ spell it off hand) is crippling people, it is horrible. Another is to lay off starches. you will heal trust me. I look like to be 10 years younger and feel it too. if anyone wants to email me on this for further information feel free

By: aeron chair

aeron chair — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:32:03 +0000

Great post. Thanks for sharing all this.

By: Cylapril

Cylapril — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:41:50 +0000

Great read! My fatigue has vanished from this amazing information, thanks a lot!

By: The Fibro-Blogosphere Unveiled: “The Fibromyalgia Experiment” — The Fibro Follies

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:19:18 +0000

[...] writes about a topic near and dear to my own blogging heart - how (or whether) to blog during flareup days [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:11:09 +0000

Aww thanks for posting this. How Did you get your doctor to diagnose this for you? It seems as if they wanna say that i am just depressed and that the pain could be assoiciated with sickle cell. But i been tired all my life and well at this point, i would just want to break down and cry. All the things they want you to try out is ridiculose. By that time i believe i will be depressed!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:41:26 +0000

I have CFS and Fibromyalgia both. I have found that I can push myself and work through the pain of FM. It’s the fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and other symptoms that cause me to not be very productive.

This may sound weird, but sometimes the pain is welcoming because it gives me a reason to focus on other things that end up being productive (blogging, for instance).

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:36:54 +0000

I haven’t been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, although my doctor believes all the indications are there. I’ve found that the best way to deal with the fatigue is to recognize what I work best at under various conditions.

By that I mean: I can do sponsored posts when my son is awake, but I can’t really read and comment on other peoples’ blogs then. So I do my paid posting in the morning, then take a break. In the evening I comment elsewhere (like now) and write a few drafts to pepper between the next day’s sponsored posts.

And I always take at least one day completely off from the computer. That’s to give my brain a rest.