chronic pain

Here's a link to where I set up a topic about weather-related issues within the Fibromyalgia Forum area.  Please follow it over there and then if you want to write, you can either write there (in more the pod of people with fibromyalgia) or come back here and write here!  Many people with chronic pain do NOT have fibromyalgia -- chronic headaches, back pain, knee pain, shoulder, etc.  Please tell others about your experiences here IF you want.  Many, many are reading and learning.  Thanks!  Mardy  read more »

Prior to my returning to Colorado State University to complete my occupational therapy degree, I worked for a research project which was next to the Colorado Climate Center.  They were studying the effects of weather on people with chronic pain and generally I recall they found the symptoms started BEFORE the drop in barometric pressure!    read more »

One of my dearest friends, Johan, is in the hospital recovering from being hit by a car while he was riding his bike. Knowing that I deal with pain on a daily basis, he called me asking for tips on a number of things. We talk about the simple, yet annoying issue of how do you sleep when no matter what position you get into hurts. To the reason I wrote my latest blog; opioid induced constipation. Johan broke his pelvis which is very painful. All of his pain meds are backing him up. Constipation is adding to his pain.  read more »

Hi Everyone!! I'm Amy- I just wanted to share with you something I do to help manage my fibro.....  read more »

Here's an area for people to write and read about their experiences with pain management, medications, etc. 

Here's an area which hopefully will streamline where people can write or read about the supplements they have taken that were NOT their favorites. 

Here's a topic I posted back in Lumigrate's formative year to hopefully streamline it so people could easily find where to write if they want to, or read -- or both -- about what supplements they take for FMS.  We are approaching our THIRD FM Awareness Day as we just had our second birthday/anniversary, and now we have more providers than EVER writing on Lumigrate.com so I am going to pull this out in May 2011 and 'dust it off' and ask those providers if they would like to include something to add onto this, as it had over 2,500 reads in the times since it was first  read more »