Fibro Friday week 536

WELCOME to the first Fibromyalgia link up of 2025

This link up will be open for all of January for you to add your fibromyalgia posts. 

By joining in here you are helping to raise Fibromyalgia awareness.

Linking up here means that your blog post will be shared to thousands of fibromyalgia followers. 

Please share this link up so that more people can find it.

While you are here you may want to check out The best Fibromyalgia articles of 2024

Fibro Friday week 535

WELCOME to this week's Fibro Friday, the one and only fibromyalgia link up.  

We'd love you to join in by checking out these links or a previous weeks.

We'd love you to join in by dropping your own link here now. Just click 'Add your link' to join in. 

Fibro Friday week 534

WELCOME to you and thanks you for dropping by. 

Fibro Friday is the weekly blog link up for anyone with a fibromyalgia post. Share your link and help raise Fibro awareness. Then your link will be shared on social media to thousands of fibro followers. 

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Join Fibro Friday, kicking off every Friday and extending through much of the week. Participate anytime to share your link and help spread awareness about fibromyalgia.

Do not forget your post will be promoted in many ways, after you add it here: 

•  as part of a group post on Fibro Blogger Directory where readers will be taken directly to your site rather than via inlinkz
• as an individual post on X in a few weeks to over 17 thousand followers. 
• as an individual post on tumblr in a few weeks. 
• possibly on Pinterest at Fibro Bloggers Directory where we have over 45.4k monthly views.

Fibro Friday week 532

WELCOME to Fibro Friday and 6 interesting articles relating to fibromyalgia. 

Fibro bloggers are making a difference by sharing their stories and raising awareness about fibromyalgia. Together, we can shine a light on this invisible illness and support those affected.

Thank you to everyone joining in here to raise awareness of fibro. 

1. Chronic illness coping with the holidays. The holiday season can be challenging for those with chronic illnesses, and the writers at Fibro Blogger Directory are here to support you with tips and stories to help. 

2. How Do We Find Shelter From The 24/7 Grind Of Fibro? Why daily life affects those with Fibromyalgia and some suggestions to reduce the impact. 

3. Dietary help for Fibromyalgia ~ Are you trying simple solutions like Magnesium? with food suggestions to supply this important mineral.

4. Pain Management Programmes – a useful resource for fibromyalgia with both general and personal information to help you understand these programmes and how they can help.

5. How American Healthcare Gets it Wrong and how it impacts the chronic illness community. 

6. REM sleep, movement and Fibromyalgia: A book review

Fibro Friday week 531

Here you can discover some helpful fibro blogs, explore insights on fibromyalgia, and catch up with your favorite bloggers this week. 

Click the numbered links below for valuable tips from those living with this chronic pain. It's a great way to connect with more fibro friends! 

1. How Living With Fibromyalgia Might Change You as a Person

Sarah is looking at some of the positive ways we might change when living with fibromyalgia.

2. Trains, Buses And Dog Sitting

Find out how Dale is coping when travelling and dog sitting.

3. “TIME, REST, BREATH” Making the most of stillness with Helen and her easy take on destressing.

4. The Great 2024 gift guide for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Illness Thrivers. Gift suggestions for adults and children to make Christmas shopping easier.

5. Severe Back Pain Flare Up is about Bethan's sudden back pain, its onset and what she did to help herself get through it. 

Fibro Friday week 530

Welcome to this week's Fibro Friday link-up, the one and only link up for fibromyalgia.

Looking to get better sleep... check out No. 1 

Learn about what it is like living with a stoma at No. 2

Tips for a fibro flare... No. 3

The daily routine of someone with Fibro and how they have learnt to manage their symptoms is No. 4

 

THIS WEEKS ARTICLES

1. Missing ingredients in our sleep hygiene plans

2. Feeling Invisible With A Stoma

3. Navigating a Bad Day with Fibromyalgia - 6 Tips

4. The Importance Of Routine For Fibro Life

Thank you to these fabulous fibro bloggers 

Being Fibro Mom @beingfibromom

InvisiblyMe @invisiblymeblog

Sarah Warburton @sswarbo

Dale Rockell @DaleRockell

WELCOME to Fibro Friday week 529

Are you interested in finding out more about fibromyalgia Then you are you are in the right place.

By clicking on the links below you will be taken to interesting fibro blogs with articles that may help you. These fibro bloggers have a wealth of understanding about the daily challenges of living with fibromyalgia and how to manage it. 

1. Oxygen Therapy: Have The Benefits Remained?

2. Best Self-Care Gifts for Fibromyalgia

3. Couch to 5K: A Beginner’s Guide for Fibromyalgia

4. Wheelie Life: Essential Questions From Wheelchair Users

5. Patient’s Guide to How Nurses Can Improve Pain Management & Reduce Stigma

6. Three Reviews to help you Take Your Life Back

Thank you to these fabulous fibro bloggers 

Dale Rockell @DaleRockell

Being Fibro Mom @beingfibromom

Sarah Warburton @sswarbo

Carrie Kellenberger @globetrotteri

Janet Jay @janetkjay 

Mandy and Michele

Welcome to Fibro Friday week 528

 At this weeks Fibro Friday there are nine interesting and informative articles about Fibromyalgia. 

1. 'Chronic Illness Joke Of The Week Series' - Heat Therapy Joke

2. 5 Years: A Reflection On Life With Fibro

3. Five things to love about autumn

4. A Journey Through The Fog Part 3

5. Chasing joy with chronic illness: Daily Bucket List

6. Fibro patients could be at risk for osteoporosis

7. Can you see pain? Ways of seeing pain, even when invisible

8. Money and mental health

9. How to Discuss Fibromyalgia with Your Employer: What to Say and What Not to Say

Welcome to Fibro Friday week 527

WELCOME to Fibro Friday a weekly event dedicated to raising awareness about Fibromyalgia. This week there are 7 interesting articles for you. Please click on the topics below that interest you.

1. The Painful Fibro Cost Of Attending A Family Event

2. The Mindful Body, a book review

3. 5 Ways Fibromyalgia Affects Your Senses

4. My Disappearance From Life Thanks To Chronic Illness

5. It's Been a While (again!) - Back to Blogging After Health Struggles

6. Accepting Help Through Self-love and Caregiver Support

7. Money and mental health

What is the purpose of a link-up? A link-up can have a variety of purposes: 

• To share information. 
• To help people access information about a specific topic. 
• To help raise awareness of that topic. 
• To help people find others who write about that topic. 
• To discover new blogs on a specific topic.

While you are here please click on the links below to learn more about bow Fibromyalgia really affects us and our day to day challenges. Also you can take this opportunity to have a look at previous week's link-ups.

Fibro Friday week 526

 WELCOME to Fibro Friday! 

I hope you have had a good week and that you are ready to check out these fibromyalgia articles. You will find lots of helpful information about fibro. 

Just click on the links below to be taken directly to these info packed fibro blogs.

1. Being At Peace With What You're Going Through 2. FROM PAIN TO PRETTY - The press on nail benefits that make my life easier  3. Autumn Encouragement for coping with seasonal changes esp the weather 4. Embracing the Unpredictable: A Life Redefined 5. How mindfulness helps me manage chronic illness better 6. Best Low Impact Cardio Exercises to Try for Knee Pain 7. First we have coffee Thank you to all these fabulous fibro bloggers for sharing their articles here ~ Dale Rockell, Cynthia The Disabled Diva, Helens Journey, This Fibro Chick, Melissa Reynolds, Suzanne and Harin, and Glenys R. Hicks.

Fibro Friday week 525

 WELCOME to this week's fibromyalgia link-up and thanks for stopping by.

Here you can find some new fibro friends, check out what people have to say about fibromyalgia, and see what your favorite bloggers are writing this week.

You will find interesting and helpful information, from people who have fibromyalgia, by clicking on the numbered links below. It is also a wonderful way to find more fibro friends if you are living with this chronic pain condition.

Why was Fibro Friday started? It began as a place for people to learn more about fibromyalgia and share their personal stories with it.

THIS WEEKS ARTICLES

1.  Saying 'YES' And Realising I'm A Writer! by Dale Rockell at Fibro & Photos. He describes his writing process, two new opportunities and his realisations about being a fibro blogger. 

2.  The Connection Between Fibromyalgia and Mental Health: Navigating the Invisible Struggle by This Fibro Chick. She writes about the emotional weight of chronic pain, dealing with fibro fog, the stigma of invisible illness and coping with the mental health impact on Fibromyalgia.

3.  Fibromyalgia 101: Find Info, Support, and Fibro Friends by Carrie Kellenberger at My Several Worlds. This is a comprehensive article on Fibromyalgia and what you need to know about it including the overlaps with many other chronic diseases. 

4.  Find out all about the pain of fibromyalgia. Many fibro bloggers (over seventy are sharing their articles here about their own personal experiences with pain and what has helped them.

5. Enough acid to rival Chernovyl by Glenys at Australian Sacrificial Homekeeper. She talks about one of her persistent symptoms ~ GERD ~ and new information that has come to light. 

6.  What is the self care model for fibromyalgia by Melissa Reynolds at Going My Own Pace. She explains what the self care model, that she uses is, and how it helps her. 

7. Anxiety is not always something to worry about by Johanna at Life According To Johanna. She use to teach about dual diagnosis and in this post she expresses her thoughts and understanding of anxiety. 

8.  Autumn makes me happy by Beverley Butterfly at Blooming Mindfulness. In this article she talks about how the seasons affect chronic illness and why autumn is her favorite time of year.

  

Fibro Friday week 524

At Fibro Friday we are helping others understand more about Fibromyalgia. 

You'll find out how others are coping with fibro, what they are going through, things they are trying to help them live with this ongoing, chronic pain condition. 

Thank you for visiting today and we know you will learn something new here from these fibro bloggers. 

1. Capturing, Sharing And Spreading Little Moments Of Joy is about how one persons passion helps him with this. 

 

2. Oxygen Therapy: Have The Benefits Remained? Have intensive sessions of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy reduced the Fibro symptoms and what happens next? 

 

3. A Journey Through The Fog Part Two vividly describes the daily struggles with the symptoms of fibromyalgia by a mother and how small pockets of light—the laughter, the kindness, the love her family help her navigate through. 

 

4. Water exercises for fibromyalgia is about a book that can help you with exercising in the water when living with pain and fatigue and sore muscles.

 

5. Did you say flare? Eight excellent tips for getting through a Fibromyalgia flare by someone who has gone a few rounds with what she calls these dark forces. 

Fibro Friday week 523

WELCOME and glad you could join us in promoting awareness and understanding of fibromyalgia. 

Thank you and thank you to these 4 great bloggers for joining in and welcoming us to their sites. 

Please use the social media buttons to spread the word about fibromyalgia and support some fibro blogs. 

1. Living With Fibro Is A Full Time Job is a post by Dale Rockell from his fibro blog Fibro & Photos. Find out more about why he thinks this 

2. SLEEP AND MEDITATION THERAPY. Find out why Barbara, aka blogger Bar, recommends this at her blog Back Pain UK. 

3. Fibromyalgia, Nutrivore and me is a post by Melissa. Find out how she follows the Nutrivore approach to benefit her health at her blog Going My Own Pace. 

 

4. No shanks as pony is a post describing Glenys's new experience with shanks pony. The phrase is a colloquial expression that has been used for centuries in the English language and has its roots in the rural areas of Britain. Read about this fibro bloggers involvement with it. 

You might be interested in more fibromyalgia articles written by men and women living with fibro. There are seven more here. 

5 fabulous Fibromyalgia posts at Fibro Friday week 522

Are we just all too sensitive?

Food sensitivity, temperature sensitivity, stress, flare ups and problems with our eyes!

Find out more by clicking on the links below. 

	1. Stress, Acceptance And Fibro find out what are stressors and what you can do about them at Dale's blog Fibro & Photos. 2. Eyes and Fibromyalgia includes research about fibro and the eyes and also some suggestions for coping with these eye conditions. 3. What Is The Biggest Cause of Fibro Flare Ups? Can you guess what it is? Find out at Back Pain blog.  4. Food sensitivity making Fibro worse? What Julie did to see if food sensitivities were making her Fibromyalgia symptoms worse and how to work out if this is a problem for you. 5. Temperature sensitivity and fibromyalgia Sue, at Fibro Daze, writes about what causes both hot and cold temperature sensitivity.