You are not your illness I always have a bit of a problem with these statements. On the one hand, yes, I don’t want to
There has been a great deal of concern over the addition of Somatic Symptom Disorder’s (SSD) addition to the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome defined by chronic widespread pain with multiple tender points, fatigue, sleep dysfunction and abnormal pain processing. The syndrome can have
This is a follow-up of my previous article Study suggests fibromyalgia might be an immunologic disorder in which they suggested the study would be able
The scary truth about our pain problem““In Canada, pain is under-recognized and under-treated,” Lynch says. “And that’s all pain, whether it’s due to trauma, surgery,
There are a few approved medications for fibromyalgia and many more off-label. Used to be FMS was just not treated. Sort of the ‘suck it
I find bad word days to be annoying… like my brain is stuttering and simply cannot find words. Which leads to trailing sentences, inability to
I do believe there are patients who have widespread musculoskeletal pain attributed to a syndrome we call fibromyalgia. However, I do not believe rheumatologists should
“The tender point test also has a gender bias because men may report widespread pain, but they generally aren’t as tender as women. Fibromyalgia may
We are embodied beings. All of us. But what then is distinct about the lived experience of pain? What is it like to have your