Avoiding The Fibromyalgia Trap

Discovering you have Fibromyalgia is no fun. Being difficult to diagnose, and almost impossible to cure, it can feel like an absolutely overwhelming disease. But getting sucked into the doctor’s world can be almost worse than the Fibromyalgia itself.

First of all remember that Fibromyalgia is an umbrella name. Every symptom that someone has experienced with it isn’t necessarily visited upon you. It’s important not to start assuming that every ache and pain is Fibromyalgia attacking again. It’s common for people to read about a disease, almost any disease, from ADHD to obesity, and as they read about the intricacies and possible indications, to assume that they have it.

The next trap is to hear how debilitating Fibromyalgia is, and sink into the invalid that the doctors and literature promise you must be. Fibromyalgia is a challenge, and can lead to chronic fatigue and other pernicious problems, but if you don’t let it get any bigger than necessary, you can probably continue to lead a full life.

Becoming helpless and retreating to your bed will probably not help your Fibromyalgia, nor how you feel about yourself. To cope with it, you have to keep focused on how to beat it, how to enable yourself to function as well as you can. Chronic pain hurts, but it doesn’t have to stop you. How can you make it better? Does going to bed a little earlier help keep your energy level up?

Beyond the physical distress, don’t forget to take into account emotional stress. If you spend half your energy beating yourself up or feeling guilty about what you can’t do, you’ll have that much less energy to find ways to do it. You need to find ways to ease your emotional discomfort as much as your physical.

In short, you can take counter-measures to keep yourself out of bed, out of the doctor’s clutches, and in YOUR life, rather than somebody else’s nightmare.

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by Sam Jordan