chronic pain

Hello there --

I'm posting a link to a video I recorded and put on Youtube to show you how to sleep properly on your back in the hopes that you don't wake up with pain in the head/neck area.   read more »

Hello my dawlinks!  It's your Yenta.  So who were you expecting?  My wonderful Mardy is schlepping around Colorado with the Peace Fleece as though it's some sort of new shmate (clothing) that she had gotten such a deal on.  It's all right, she makes me smile; it's gut (good).  I like being appreciated, who wouldn't?  read more »

I was invited to share the following blog post on oxidative stress as it related to fibromyalgia.  The original post can be found at http://robinthomas.biz I plan to continue this series, taken from a recent webcast.  If anyone would like to hear the entire webcast, contact me and I will be able to send an MP3 file.  Robin  read more »

I wanted to stop by Lumigrate and briefly introduce myself today, as we're recording our first podcast today related to my history with Mardy in treating patients with head injury and other neurologic issues, which lead to a flow of people with fibromyalgia and inspired us to collaborate on creating something that was named by the participants in Grand Junction 'Fibromyalgia Forum'.  We plan to also record something about how that lead to my revitalized interest in the work of Dr.  read more »

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM) can be very helpful in the treatment of migraines.  read more »

Mardy's note:  I copied this in the summer of 2010 from it's original place in the Fibro Awareness forum here at Lumigrate so that it is ALSO located here to be caught here as well.  In two months it had gotten almost 2,000 reads, and by year's end it had just over 3,000 in that original location, as well as the hundreds it had here.  That's really VERY rewarding and inspiring, and tells us what you like to have on Lumigrate.com!  And from there, we develop in the present and that turns into the future, which you are then a part of forming.  read more »

I was so pleased to have my copy of Deirdre Rawlings' outstanding book Food that Helps Win the Battle Against Fibromyalgia with me recently when my sister said "I need to get out my cookbooks and get some inspiration."   This was brought on because our dad, who is in what I call 'the home stretch of life' was trying to figure out what he might eat differently to get better results for what is 'paining him' and making his joints malfunction.  I believe he had undiagnosed / misdiagnosed  fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue issues basically his who  read more »