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Living with Fibromyalgia
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items Here are some helpful tools, blogs and forums for you to look into if you have Fibro.
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Fibro Blogs & Forums
Learning about Fibro
Fibro Awareness Merch
Tools to Help you Cope
Fibro Blogs & Forums
Helpful Information from patients and foundations.
May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month. Learn more on this post about Fibro and where to learn more about it.
May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month
A list of helpful resources if you are dealing with Fibromyalgia. Different websites, blogs and other helpful resources.
Fibromyalgia
Leah Tyler blogs about living life with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. Good days, bad days and all the in between.
Chronicles of F.I.B.R.O.
A woman blogs about her daily life living with Fibromyalgia. From parent guilt to the daily symptoms.
The FibroFrog
My own blog about life with Lyme, Hypermobility Disorder and Fibromyalgia. Some of the treatments and feelings I have gone through dealing with chronic pain.
WTFLyme
A blog about symptoms, treatments and navigating your way through Fibromyalgia. Useful tools and guides to help you through Fibro.
Resources & Blog | Psychology-Based Pain Management
The Fibro Guy talks a lot about connections between Fibromyalgia and other disorders such as EDS.
Blog - The Fibro Guy
This site is brought to you by the American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association. They talk about symptoms, diagnosis and tools to help you cope with living with Fibro.
Managing Fibromyalgia Pain
Here is a Fibromyalgia forum so patients can talk with others going through the same symptoms and issues of Fibro. It helps to know you are not along and sometimes some of the best advice comes from other sufferers.
Fibromyalgia Forum | Fibromyalgia Forum
Learning about Fibro
Websites and Books with Fibromyalgia educational info,
A book to help you learn the basics of Fibromyalgia. Whether you have it or a family member or friends does, you need to learn more about it.
Fibromyalgia For Dummies by Staud & Adamec
Here is Mayo Clinic takes on Fibromyalgia. The symptoms, causes and treatments. Learn more here.
Fibromyalgia: Combination of treatments often required-Fibromyalgia - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
A guide to living with Fibromyalgia including a cookbook and other tips to help you navigate life with Fibro.
Fibro Flare No More: 4-in-1 Relief Book
A book by Bruce Nelson on how he learned to figure out the triggers of his pain and how to prevent the pain from happening in the first place. He talks a lot about food and environmental triggers.
Coping with Fibromyalgia: Chemical Pain Triggers
A book by author R. Paul St. Amand about reversing the effects of Fibromyalgia. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and is on the teaching staff at UCLA Harbor General Hospital. He has been in practice for over 50 years.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You: Fibromyalgia
A book about a women's journey through pain and empowerment while dealing with Fibromyalgia.
My Battle With Fibromyalgia: Strategies
Fibro Awareness Merch
Help spread awareness for Fibromyalgia
A collection for Fibromyalgia Awareness such as bumper stickers, stickers, buttons, t-shirts and more to help spread awareness.
Fibromyalgia Awareness and Support Merch
From my Zazzle Shop: Fibromyalgia information such as fliers, posters, banners and more to aide in the education of Fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia Awareness Month
Here are some Fibromyalgia awareness t-shirts, magnetic bumper stickers, coffee mugs and phone cases to help spread awareness.
Fibromyalgia
Etsy has lots of Fibro awareness items too! Check out the purple ribbon and other cool graphics to help spread awareness of this awful condition.
Fibromyalgia - Etsy
You can check out Amazon to find even more Fibromyalgia Awareness Items. They have t-shirts, stickers and bumper stickers.
Fibromyalgia Awareness
Here are some really pretty Fibromyalgia tumblers on Etsy. Pretty purple ribbons which stand for Fibro Awareness.
Fibromyalgia Tumblers - Etsy
Vinyl Fibromyalgia purple ribbon stickers you can stick on your water bottle, tablet case or phone.
Fibromyalgia Purple Awareness Ribbons Sticker
A yard or garden flag you can put during May for Fibromyalgia Awareness Month. Pretty purple ribbon and butterfly.
Fibromyalgia Awareness Month Ribbon and Butterfly Garden Flag
A removable magnetic bumper sticker with a butterfly and purple Fibromyalgia awareness ribbon that you can put on and off your car in May.
Hope, Courage, Strength Fibromyalgia Car Magnet
Here are some Fibromyalgia educational fliers you can put out at businesses or doctor offices to educate patients about Fibromyalgia.
May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month Flyer
Here is a pretty Fibromyalgia water bottle with a beautiful watercolor purple awareness ribbon surrounded by flowers.
Fibromyalgia Awareness Ribbon Water Bottle
Send a card to a friend suffering from Fibromyalgia. Let them know you are thinking about them and care.
Thinking About You | Fibromyalgia Support Card
Most people with Fibro or any chronic illness knows what the spoon theory is. Here is a cute key chain wishing a friend to always have one more spoon,
Spoon Theory Gift for Fibromyalgia
Etsy has a lot of really pretty Fibromyalgia t-shirts to choose from. Whether you are buying a gift for a friend or family member with fibro or want to wear one yourself to help spread awareness, there are plenty to choose form.
Fibromyalgia Shirt - Etsy
May is Fibro Awareness Month. Help spread awareness for Fibromyalgia awareness with this pretty button with a purple awareness ribbon.
Fibromyalgia Awareness Ribbon Button
Tools to Help you Cope
From supplements to guides to dietary methods.
Here is a three month journal to help you track your symptoms and see if you can figure out the triggers and what works and what doesn't in relieving symptoms.
Track Fibromyalgia: 3 Month Journal
Here are some supplements said to help with Fibro. Have you tried them? If so, put a comment below to what helps you.
Fibromyalgia
This is a guide to learning how to deal with the pain, whether damage needs to be fixed or you need to figure out why your brain is sending pain signals. This guide is mostly about self-care.
Homepage | FibroGuide | University of Michigan
I have tens unit for my back pain. I see other Fibro patients using them too to help ease the pain and tension in our muscles. If you have tried it, let me know below in the comments if it helped you.
Tens Units
I am trying the anti-inflammatory diet right now but just started. Has it helped any of you? I have a hard time sticking to these diets, if I am being honest. Tell me about your journey with this.
Anti Inflammatory Diet: Books
One of the things I use to help relieve my pain, is this Sombra Cream. It burns when you put it on but it seems to really relive my pain. Not totally get rid of it and it's only temporary but for those brief moments, it seems to distract my brain.
Sombra Cream
I remember using this years back, but can't remember how much it helped. I might revisit this again. Have you guys had experience with this cream and did it help?
Topricin FIBRO Pain Relief Cream 6 oz
I do use these myself. I cannot tell how much they are working or not. I have a had time keeping my back pain under control. Where is your pain at?
Turmeric Curcumin 1500mg with Black Pepper
I have tried a couple different supplements but admit I'm not great at being consistent with anything. What have you tried that helps you?
Fibromyalgia Supplements
I am big on bracing. My knees, wrist, elbow, back. There is probably not many body parts I don't have a brace for as the pain comes and goes throughout the year.
Back Of Knee Brace
I would like to hear your opinions on the heating mats. I have used a couple infrared mats, an earthing mat and a Light Relief Machine. My chiro uses one on me too. I feel like in the moment I feel better but sometimes flare then later. What about yo...
Infrared Mats
Just like with braces, I have every size and shape of ice packs! I think ice helps me more then heat, which I hate to say because I can't stand coldness, But when my back pain starts, I have to turn to ice. So these ice packs truly help and are cheap...
Amazon Best Sellers: Best Cold Packs
Here is some roll on Lidocaine for your Fibro Pain. Let me know if you have tried it and it works.
Maximum Strength Pain Relief Roll-On - Theraworx
Lidocaine patches are nice because you can conveniently stick on the area that is ailing you. I have used them for my ribs when they dislocate and on my lower back.
Lidocaine Patches
Another anti-inflammatory cookbook full of easy under 30-minute recipes. We can't stand long so this is helpful!
30-Minute Fibromyalgia Cookbook: 75 Easy Recipes
A lot of people sear by magnesium to help relieve Fibro pain and it is said to help with anxiety too.
Amazon.com: BioEmblem Triple Magnesium Complex
A workbook to help you manage your Fibromyalgia symptoms and pain and help you turn down your sensitive pain receptors.
Your Fibromyalgia Workbook: Neuroscience Approach
Ease up your tension in the shoulders, back and neck with this heating pad. Lean back and just relax and let your muscles unwind.
Ruqiji 26" x 35" Neck & Shoulder Heating Pad
A symptoms and pain tracker journal to keep track of your symptoms to see if you can find any rhyme and reason to them.
F*ck Fibro: Pain & Symptom Tracking Journal