Bloggers Unite: Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Thanks to all who participated in National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day!

Wed, 13 May 2009 08:57:28 -0500

To everyone who wrote a post in honor of Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, thank you! Your support means so much to those coping with this illness. Raising awareness and dispelling the myths surrounding FM are critical to our healing, and the more people we can get to join in the effort the better! Thank you again.

Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day!

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:38:13 -0500

May 12 is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. If you or anyone you know is dealing with this illness, please consider participating in the Bloggers Unite event. Your support will mean more than you know. To those of you who have already pledged your participation and support, thank you! I know many of us are eager to read your posts.

Fibro and Lupus often go hand-in-hand

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:04:33 -0500

Although we focus primarily on lupus at My Life Works Today!, we are also committed to supporting other awareness efforts that affect so many, such as Fibromyalgia. We are honored to do what we can to join in on this important day -

My Awareness

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:48:48 -0500

Hi, I'm really sorry to read about much of your suffering. My girlfriend's Mum has recently been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, after suffering for 30 years - but really, that's not helped her find a cure! My mother is a Homeopath and is currently trying to help Anne through a course of remedies specific to her as an individual. It's too early to say if this will work but I thought I'd mention it. I'm supporting your cause on my site and felt that this might be of interest to you. I've created a 'friends of friends' accommodation network (http://MyFriendsHotel.com) and, hypothetically, a Fibromyalgia group could be created so that you could find accommodation (for holidays, weekend breaks) with other like minded people or sufferers for a break or for mutual support. Just letting you know. Best wishes, Pete

Thank you for the initiative

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:55:43 -0500

Hello, I knew little about it until I met timethief who suffers from it! She is my friend from Canada and an active blogger despite the pain.

Write a Letter to the Editor

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:02:04 -0500

I have been planning on doing this for years and just haven't gotten it done. Still, I would encourage everyone who is interested in promoting fibromyalgia awareness to write to the editors of your newspapers and ask that they include an article on Fibromyalgia Awareness Day for May 12.

We must go through a mourning process before we can accept it

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:32:36 -0600

1993 finally after tests and doctors not believing me, it happened. An actual diagnosis. It is real, It does hurt, The weather affects it, Stress affects it, I am strong and I can get through. I mourned the loss of my old self about 12 years ago. It was more bearable then. I set aside 1 day a week to wallow; Meaning, if I want to nap, I do, if I want to stay in my jammies, I do and no one can say or do or ask anything of me. My husband and two beautiful daughters are amazing and I am so Blessed to have them. They mourned with me, and walk with me through each day of the pain.

The pain is crippling, isolating, & REAL! ....

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:57:07 -0600

After suffering for 15 years with the most devastatingly pain 24/7, always having to push myself thou the day being in a state of giving up and wanting to die, doctor after doctor, diagnosis after diagnosis and never getting free from what I was going thru, losing my concession business of 23 years, not being able to do thing other mom's did with their kids and grand kids and just really wondering if I'd ever be able to be normal again in this life, I really had just begin to accept pain would be apart of my day and night for the rest of my life. I tried to create a new life around this diagnoses which I got three years ago, 12 years after it started and many prescriptions of pain pills, psych med cause you know in the beginning they all told me it was in my head and I had to be crazy, muscle relaxers the list is so long I can't remember them all I just filled them and prayed it worked. Due to me not being able to hold a job for more than 4-5 hours a day from being to tired, and a daughter still at home to care for who was reaching her teens and you know teens have lots of wants weather you can buy them or not, I started to work from home on the computer as a network marketer. Fibromyalgia has taken me from the life I knew, but my new life allows me to slow down and smell the roses, I don't like the fact I have Fibromyalgia but I am grateful for the people I have come to know and can help, the personal growth things I have learned, a love for my self and others that makes me know all things are possible with god. I’m not 100% better but I’m getting my life back. I now have a hope of getting a social life again. I work from home as a network marketer, and am co-creator of a healthy coffee biz, and soon to start a on-line radio show. to your health & feeling better................. Deborah

Fibromyalgia is real, but doesn't have to hold you back

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:07:33 -0600

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 10 years ago while a junior in college. The experience of hurting and feeling so alone is one I'll never forget, but I also recognize that it shaped who I am today. I have fibromyalgia, but try to not let it hold me back from living my life to the fullest. Today, I am a working professional with a graduate degree and hopes of continuing on to earn my doctorate. I am happily married to a wonderful, kind man and together we love to travel the world and enjoy quiet moments, like browsing books over a cup of coffee. Obviously, some days are better than others, but getting through the hard ones is easier now that I have a support group around me. This is why I added Fibromyalgia Awareness Day to Bloggers Unite. I hope that through this, others suffering with this disorder will find that they are not alone, and that there are people out there who recognize their daily struggle, but love and support them nevertheless. Fibromyalgia is real, but it doesn't need to define who you are. I look forward to reading your posts on May 12 and sharing them with others. Thank you.