fatigue

You'll see on the home page that I have fibromyalgia, but I didn't include the details initially that for years before I had a diagnosis I was run up the flagpole of traditional medicine as though this might be MS.  It was not, and food allergy testing after the neurologist didn't know what it was proved to be helpful, inexpensive and provide solutions.  read more »

Mardy's note:  I'm copying this from the original Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2010 Forum about two months after the 'big day' and tweeking the original title just a bit (to formalize it a bit more), because I wanted it to be easily found on Lumigrate.com (and I also copied it to Deirdre Rawlings Forum, as she was kind enough to do the interview while our podcasting studio was being constructed (and naturally behind schedule).  When Deirdre and I batted the idea around of what to do for this collaboration, I wanted it to seem very informal and appealing to the public with fibro  read more »

As part of the Lumigrate collaborative effort for raising awareness this year about FMS/CFS, On Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 a very special conversation on Addressing Fibromyalgia's Pain, Insomnia, Fog 'n' Fatigue with Integrative Approaches took place and was recorded and hosted by Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD at her website about foods for fibromyalgia.  (The link is provided here as well as the bottom -- we encourage people to take a minute to review this introductory discussion in order to get people in the fibromyalgia awareness community 'on  read more »

I attended the local hospital's medical CEU (continuing education unit) this week titled "Obstructive Sleep Apnea Across the Specialties", presented by local physician David Patz.  I learned a lot from it and wanted to do a writeup about it and at least start the conversation and hopefully invite others who know about sleep and sleep apnea specifically to register as users and write here on Lumigrate.  As with anything lately, new research is stretching what the experts previously believed, and it appe  read more »

I wanted to let people know about this video since I came across it on facebook..... CERTAINLY would love for whomever created it to Comment and let us know who they are and put links out to your site or sites!  Thank you for such a nice gift -- good choice of music ... nice length, etc! ~~ Mardy

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Dr. Spurlock and Dr. Rand are both Medical Doctors with years of experience with pain, pain management, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia among other things (anti-aging in Dr. Spurlock's case and addiction and recovery in Dr. Rand's case).  Their clinics are in Dallas, Tx (Health Rejuvenation Specialists) and San Diego, respectively (Bay Recovery Center).   read more »

Thank you for taking a look here and I hope you find lots of information at Lumigrate that helps you.  The blogs now are intended to be more about what's going on at Lumigrate and with Mardy, and the content of the initial year's blogs is now ALSO in the Forum areas.   read more »

Here is the link to register for a FREE teleseminar by Deirdre Rawlings, PhD, ND, MH, CNC which I encourage people to invest their resource of time and energy with.  Here's the link:

www.foodsforfibromyalgia.com/free-seminar-march-24th  read more »

This topic is so popular here in western Colorado that Dr. Rollins' seminar tonight is going to be full, full, full and they are fun, fun, fun to attend because of his friendly and professional style.  The seminar announcement is informative, including his background information and if you follow the link, his website has a lot of information which you might find helpful for learning about this topic or others from an integrative medicine perspective! (homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, etc)
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