The Fibromyalgia Experiment

How Do You Spell It?

Sarakastic — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:48 +0000

While fibromyalgia is a very difficult to understand disease it’s also difficult to spell. Since I blog about it this only comes up when I wonder why my spell checker or voice recognition software doesn’t know one of the most important words to me. When trying to spell it for someone the other day I again felt the same way. I’ve found that some people search for it using:

fibromialga
fybromyalgia
fibromyalsia

Let’s just call it fibro shall we? What’s the weirdest way that you’ve ever seen it spelled?

Where are all the Pictures of Fibromyalgia?

Sarakastic — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:16 +0000

Since a picture is worth a thousand words I thought it may be a more helpful way to explain fibromyalgia. I might have some stored on my older toshiba laptop computers but nothing on this laptop of how sick I used to look when I was being diagnoised and on lots of medications. When I went searching for these though I basically found charts of yoga positions and tender points. I guess it’s really difficult to take a picture of an invisible disease. The other pictures just showed people wincing in pain. I thought the Lyrica commercials in the past have done pretty well with the invisible bruising concept which is what it feels like the most to me. What picture do you think would best define fibromyalgia?

Why I Turned Off Some Blog Comments

Sarakastic — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:54:23 +0000

I finally decided to turn off blog comments after a certain number of days after posting. I have been putting this off for years. However, there were just thousands of spam comments every day. I can only imagine that so many bigger bloggers just wade through these all day.

I hope all of their yardwork and electric swimming pool heaters are good because they won’t have time for home upkeep. I had to wade through them to get to a few very important comments about fibromyalgia. I don’t know why this blog gets so much spam as compared to my other site. It may be because it’s a health niche or it’s on a lot of dofollow lists. Either way, thanks for everyone who continues to comment and read; it just isn’t available on older posts anymore.

Hello, Is Anybody Home?

Sarakastic — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:52:10 +0000

This is what I feel like asking in every new niche I’m considering. I even wonder it when I start to climb up in the rankings. I always have it worked out to about how much money I’ll be making. My teeth grind as much as a bunn coffee grinder while I wait. Then I get there and something always happens. As I watch a few keywords that I’ve been working on for months I can’t help but wonder, is the niche going to be what expected? Will it be better?

Do Naps Help Fibromyalgia?

Sarakastic — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:37:45 +0000

I was reading about fibromyalgia and I can’t find the article anymore but it was on an authority medical site. At first I laughed. It said that fibromyalgia fatigue isn’t really helped by naps. It was funny to me because it’s obvious. It’s a medical condition it’s not just being tired. I find that there’s a base line with my fibro fatigue but things can really get a lot worse from there if I don’t take care of myself. The few times in my life I’ve tried to cut out naps it’s been a disaster. They won’t cure you but I do think it helps. Any other fibromites out there who believe in naps?

How Do You Track Your Fibro?

Sarakastic — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:37:36 +0000

I know that some people track how they feel after they eat or what they eat and this is smart. However, I wish that I had all kinds of different graphs for how long I sleep or how stressed out I was or whether or not I exercised. Then I could see how it affected how I feel the next day. I work with charts all day long for my business, I could probably keep track of dropped calls if I wanted to. However, when I really need it there just isn’t a practical way to have a graph. Often I think that there just isn’t any correlation with my flares but I’m sure there is something. Do you keep track of your fibro flares?

Gift Ideas for Fibromites

Sarakastic — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:27:34 +0000

I think customizing gifts for fibromites really shows that you care whether it’s valentines gift ideas for wives or for Christmas. This can be as simple as clearing some space in the day so your loved one can take a nap. I also love the idea of giving a gift certificate to a spa. You could also try an old fashioned homemade coupon book to offer to do dishes or cook meals. This will be one of the few coupon books of its type that actually gets used. What are some of the best gift ideas for fibromites?

Fibromyalgia and Stress Updates

Sarakastic — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:21:06 +0000

With things at work melting down I’m also reminded how this affects fibromyalgia. The stress has taken its toll on my sleeping. Also I’ve noticed that just the act of being tense for days at a time seems to heighten my pain level. Unfortunately, life doesn’t leave any other option than to be stressed out sometimes. I’m going to be trying a lot of Paul McKenna techniques in the next few weeks to be as relaxed and happy as I possibly can. It makes sense that muscle tension leads to more pain but has anyone else experienced this?

Did the Internet Bubble Burst Again?

Sarakastic — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:20:30 +0000

It might just be that it’s January but my online earnings are really in a slump. My traffic has gone up but my cpc is the lowest that I can remember in the six or so years I’ve been doing this. It just reminded me how much I love working online. I haven’t really had to worry through the economic downturn. I’ve always been able to find work. I know that from a searching perspective people are using the internet more all the time. I mean we need it to keep in contact and find everything from a richmond tennis center to cute shoes. There has to still be a way to work online.

This month though things are different. In the past whenever my sites weren’t doing too well it was really easy for me to just go back to freelance writing. However, I’ve found that it’s not really an option right now. When the content mills crashed a lot of people lost tons of work and their livelihoods. Then those writers all started competing for the same private clients. I know that it is still possible to make a living that way but I just don’t think it’s for me. Instead, I’m going to keep working on my niche sites. I’m pretty sure it’s just the nature of the internet.

Not Playing Fair

Sarakastic — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:37:05 +0000

That’s what I wanted to say to my body this weekend. I had everything planned out where I could have a comfortable and joyous Christmas. Then I got stomach flu, and threw out my back, and got a migraine. I wished I had a stop watch, or maybe Luminox blackout watches to see how long it took a new kind of pain to show up. The last two seem to happen whenever I rest too much. That’s on top of my regular fibromyalgia pain and the stress of the holidays. Sometimes my body is just a big bully. How was everyone else’s Christmas?