“The itch sensation is a perception”, Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen The most exciting research regarding itching comes from professor Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen, and his colleagues at the Washington University School of…
Category: Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia: Strategies to Change the Brain
“One should sympathise with the colour , the beauty, the joy of life” , Oscar Wilde Changing the neural pathways in the brain from ruminating about pain or various other…
Fibromyalgia and Brain Fog: Stop, Breathe & Think
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud”, Virginia Woolf To live a life in a state…
Fibromyalgia, Alternative Therapies and the Bio-Psycho-Social
“People still insist on things like holistic healing and things that have no real basis in evidence because they want it to be true-it’s as simple as that”, Stephen Fry…
Fibromyalgia and unnecessary tests: more care is not better care
“He’s (sic) the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines”, Benjamin Franklin This is not a blog about doctor bashing. I have been so fortunate for many decades to…
Fibromyalgia and Nurses
“Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or…
Fibromyalgia and the tendency toward anxiety
“When anxious people anticipate something bad about to happen- such as being confronted with creepy pictures of snakes or spiders- their right frontal insulas go into overdrive”, Blakeslee and Blakeslee…
Fibromyalgia: Healing yourself
” What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can…
Letting go: How to live with Fibromyalgia
” To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit”, Jack Kornfield In the…
“Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”: struggling with fibromyalgia
” Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety”, Woody Allen Anxiety is the root cause of fibromyalgia, particularly at an early age, or even in the…
