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What Is The Treatment For Fibromyalgia?
I am a 64 years of and have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. The worst symptoms of this disease is, my body hurts all over when in movement, sleep deprivation, joint pain, and various other. But, the very worst until recently was sleep deprivation going literally 3/4 days and nights without sleep. Approx five weeks ago I was sitting on the couch and a friend was sitting on another in the opposite direction, and whilst talking to me I became despondent. She called out and I did not respond at first...she paniced thinking I was having a seizer and called the ambulance. I came-to within minutes, seeing the ambo officers walk in the door. However, after a recent appointment with a neurologist he seems to think it might been related to an epilepsy. And as a result had my drivers licence suspended for approx 12 months or so in order to make sure. I dispute his findings and, believe its in relation to severe sleep deprivation. Is it possible to get a second opinion hopefully a more accurate one?
Wed, 6 Apr 2016
hi,
thank you for providing the brief history of you. As you have mentioned about the complains of the fibromyalgia pain, first you may need to understand that what exactly is fibromyalgia.
fibro-myal-gia =
fibro - fibers
myo - muscle
gia - pain
so now you got? fibro-myal-gia is the pain in the fibers of the muscle. Okay, now let me give some symptoms, pain is high all the time, may travel from one place to another, as a result your Activities of daily living drops, fatigue sets in, tiredness all the time, sleepless nights, lousy days, irritation, frsutation ,etc.
now to help you out with fibromyalgia like how I deal with my personal cases. first to sit and plan the short and long term goals.
Post that learn about the condition for which a physical therapist will be of help to make you understand. Later on for pain management using the therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy will be of help. Later on, proceeding to slow exercises and then increase slowly and gradually.
Along with this, try doing two more things - meditation and breathing exercises.
Meditation to have a control on your inner self. which will help you get good sleep, reduce frustration, irritation, mood swings etc.
Breathing exercises - this has an important role to play. what it is? it is about providing the good oxygen to the lungs and there by purifying the blood. Since with more oxygen the, blood caries more oxygenated blood to cells and the metabolism of the cell is maintained.
Next, exercises to focus on strengthening the muscles. Improving the muscle endurance and improving the drug absorption capacity.
Also, this will be a long process to under go. but I have seen chronic fibromyalgia cases and had 90% of success rate. It is all about faith and patience. once you start, the end is only when you start living pain free life.
with the grace of God I wish you a good health.
thank you for providing the brief history of you. As you have mentioned about the complains of the fibromyalgia pain, first you may need to understand that what exactly is fibromyalgia.
fibro-myal-gia =
fibro - fibers
myo - muscle
gia - pain
so now you got? fibro-myal-gia is the pain in the fibers of the muscle. Okay, now let me give some symptoms, pain is high all the time, may travel from one place to another, as a result your Activities of daily living drops, fatigue sets in, tiredness all the time, sleepless nights, lousy days, irritation, frsutation ,etc.
now to help you out with fibromyalgia like how I deal with my personal cases. first to sit and plan the short and long term goals.
Post that learn about the condition for which a physical therapist will be of help to make you understand. Later on for pain management using the therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy will be of help. Later on, proceeding to slow exercises and then increase slowly and gradually.
Along with this, try doing two more things - meditation and breathing exercises.
Meditation to have a control on your inner self. which will help you get good sleep, reduce frustration, irritation, mood swings etc.
Breathing exercises - this has an important role to play. what it is? it is about providing the good oxygen to the lungs and there by purifying the blood. Since with more oxygen the, blood caries more oxygenated blood to cells and the metabolism of the cell is maintained.
Next, exercises to focus on strengthening the muscles. Improving the muscle endurance and improving the drug absorption capacity.
Also, this will be a long process to under go. but I have seen chronic fibromyalgia cases and had 90% of success rate. It is all about faith and patience. once you start, the end is only when you start living pain free life.
with the grace of God I wish you a good health.
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