pain

I really want to commend the people who are in pain and are still undeterred from using the computer for learning -- it is one of your greatest tools.  I am posting this link so you can learn about the two types of cushions I have found to be the most helpful to me.    read more »

I copied this from a blog post I made in the summer of 2009 so that it would be easily 'findable' here in this new Forum area --- as Lumigrate has grown we're shifting and growing where the needs are presented.  Please remember the "print" and "e-mail" buttons, below, are great tools for you to be able to share things with people YOU might want to turn onto information!  Thanks so much ~~ Mardy

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I was priviledged to be invited to present at the same kickoff konference with Kesta related to a chronic pain educational documentary film series, and it was a highly read blog which I wanted to be sure people who were reading in this Forum area would see... so here it is!  And please remember that the little buttons at the bottom of this screen that say "print" and 'e-mail' are wonderful tools for YOU to be a liaison for Lumigrate and fibromyalgia education! ~~ Mardy

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"Doctors train patients to take pills for all their needs.  Doctors are trained to do this.  But in the end, the meds are more problem than the pain."  Dr.  read more »

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I am going to speak on behalf of the Lumigrate Forum community.  In the first 9 months of the website, the forum area about fibromyalgia has truly been one of the most impressive and pride-full things I've ever experienced.  I don't have children but I know how parents have such a sense of pride when they see their kids doing something that has nothing more to do with the parent than they created the person.  There are amazing, wise people -- mostly women -- who wrote in that area so far.  And MUCH of what we were writing about had aspects to it that had to do with nutri  read more »

Part of the fun challenge of the evolution of Lumigrate.com is seeing what people contribute and ask about and then figuring out how to structure things in a way that allows us to accomplish our intentions -- make it valid, progressive, fun and streamlined (as people are short on time and energy and quite frankly often tired of looking at the computer but it is SUCH a great tool, eh?).   I just noticed that someone had written a question in the fibromyalgia pain medication section that maybe falls into the category of 'procedure'  -- then within that realm there perhaps  read more »