It's fibromyalgia awareness day. What are you going to do to help make other people aware? Even if it's just sharing a spoon story with someone, that's one more person that understands.

last night.  So I would like to share it with everyone.  I found it VERY interesting and educational. 

www.ctstv.com/calgary/player.php 

I just wanted to share this video with you all that I found on youtube.com  Hope you enjoy it. 

www.youtube.com/watch

Hi Everyone,

I just joined this community, and am still trying to learn my way around livejournal, outside of my blog....LOL.

There is some information I wanted to pass along, for anyone who might be interested in joining me at Bloggers Unite, to help raise awareness for Fibromyalgia. It is a community were bloggers come together to write about a ( Read more... )

Photo's in article NSFW

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/article1492694.ece

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4841319&page=1Read more... )

Today is
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome National Awareness Day

Wear a purple ribbon to show your support for those with FMS and/or CFS
If you can't wear a purple ribbon, wear purple!!

By now most of you have read about the NY Times article about fibromyalgia being a made up, fake disease. And if you're anything like me, you had steam coming out of your ears about it. Well, I'm not a huge fan of the National Fibromyalgia Association because they have begun to be sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer. However ( Read more... )

I found this interesting video and Powerpoint presentation geared towards doctors (they can get continuing education credits for watching it and taking a test on it, I think). It's a panel of doctors talking about fibromyalgia and how it's a real condition and why they know that for sure and what types of treatments they find most successful with ( Read more... )

My name is Deirdra, and I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia about six months ago. As an active person and a yoga instructor, I was devastated by the effects it was having on my personal practice as well as every other aspect of my life ( Read more... )