Fibromyalgia - What I Know Is Real

Taking back our #POWER.."The - So Is #Fibromyalgia Real? What I Know Is Real - Blog" soisfibromyalgiareal.com/about-lets-get… …#fibrowarrior #WhatIKnowIsReal

"And forget being excited about plans, about working on my life, the lofty plans and ideals are gone; I’m suddenly just pushing through life again…struggling to do the day-to-day minimum. Back to basics." #Fibromyalgia #Flare #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgiapy…

"I pace myself…& I do listen to my body & heed the signals it is sending me…but I push it too. & I PUSH IT A LOT. After 15 years of trial & error living with fibromyalgia, I’ve found my fibromyalgia has some “give” to it & I take full advantage of it." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/im-sick-of-lim…

"Most nights I would be so exhausted, I would need to go through maybe a couple #sleep cycles on the couch, often around three hours, just to be able to get up and go to my own bed." #Fibromyalgia #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/to-sleep-or-no…

#ChronicFatigue "For many of the fifteen years I’ve lived with #fibromyalgia, especially the early years, this tiredness wasn’t alleviated by any amount of sleep and rest…not any amount I was able to get anyways." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/i-change-what-…

"I realized with every photo I looked back on from the past 20 years, with each memory that flooded back, part of each memory was a #fibromyalgia memory...when I look at the photo, PART OF THE MEMORY IS HOW I WAS EXPERIENCING MY FIBROMYALGIA THAT DAY." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgia-a…

#Fibromyalgia "...like the athlete running the marathon, my mental game, my incredibly strong mind, IS getting me somewhere. And I won’t be quitting." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/its-an-incredi…

"You know how you occasionally hear it reported..some celebrity who suffers from exhaustion goes to some facility to rest & relax & rehabilitate their body for about a month or two? Well I remember thinking, that's exactly what it felt like I needed to do" soisfibromyalgiareal.com/im-sick-of-lim…

#Fibromyalgia ...."...there are times when someone complains I'm late for some party and I think...if they only knew how hard it is for me to get there at all!" #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/minimize-it-mo…

@AlenaBruc 😊💜

@SoIsFibroReal Danke! Das freut mich. Es war warklich ein Glücksfall, daß ich auf dich gestoßen bin. Mir tun andere oft leid. die so viele Medikamente ausprobieren oder nichts davon wissen, daß die Übungen anstrengend sind und auch fast schmerzen müssen. So ist FM für mich meist erträglich.

"Throughout my whole adult life, pretty much, working out has been my medication of choice. I haven’t needed to read the literature on it, nor look up the science behind it…I can just tell what it does for me.” #Depression #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/never-worked-s…

#Triggers "I know them well. & I‘ve learned to live in a way to avoid them as much as possible & minimize them as much as possible, so much so that flares are pretty much a thing of the past by now; I can’t remember the last time I had a significant one." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/different-thin…

"If I am controlling my #fibromyalgia symptoms through my own lifestyle choices, it can’t be taken away from me." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fifteen-years-…

"I wouldn’t have chosen to have #fibromyalgia, but I can’t deny I have a resolute RESILIENCE and a mental CLARITY, with which to stare down anything in life I need to, that I feel GRATEFUL for." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgiapy…

"It seems so simple...it SHOULD be simple...your body hurts, hmm, what do you do? I have #fibromyalgia…I work on #stress.” #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/i-have-fibromy…

@AlenaBruc You're so welcome Alena! My pleasure! 💜

@SoIsFibroReal Es hat wieder so gewirkt, wie dein Blog so oft gewirkt hat. Du hast eine wunderbare, intuitive Aufmunterungsbegbung. Immer wieder danke-

"Yes, after over fifteen years of living with #fibromyalgia and no matter how many times a “bad” #flare up happens to me, I get jarringly worried at first…upset and unnerved as seriously scary symptoms set in." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fighting-the-f…

"I pace myself…& I do listen to my body & heed the signals it is sending me…but I push it too. & I PUSH IT A LOT. After 15 years of trial & error living with fibromyalgia, I’ve found my fibromyalgia has some “give” to it & I take full advantage of it." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/im-sick-of-lim…

"In fact, having #fibromyalgia and having SOMEONE ELSE tell ME to be positive would pretty much elicit the exact opposite...I’m pretty sure I’d be far from positive in my response to them!" #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/being-positive…

@DeniseCrowe16 Good question. I'm not really sure. I had both but not concurrently. I had endometriosis throughout my 20's, then got fibromyalgia at 40. I wonder if my endometriosis played a role in causing my fibromyalgia, because look at this....

@SoIsFibroReal So if a Female suffers from Endometriosis does it go along with having Fibromyalgia ...

"For all of us with #fibromyalgia, it seems to me that it’s all about doing or thinking whatever it takes to get up and get doing the things we have to do in life and hopefully, before our energy runs out each day…getting to some things we like to do." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/i-live-in-deli…

"And yes, #fibromyalgia certainly likes to (try to) keep slapping us back down again and “keep us in our place” when we step off our fibromyalgia “tightrope”…but we can’t let that place be nonexistent." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/in-your-face-f…