Help spread Fibromyalgia Awareness

Welcome to Fibro Friday week 179, We are so happy to have you here. Fibro Friday is a great way to learn more about Fibromyalgia and get ideas to cope and find out how others experience this condition.

Every week you will find helpful articles about Fibromyalgia including This Week's Fibromyalgia News and helpful hints for living with Fibro such as Top 10 Tips for Travelling with a Chronic Illness and I Like to Move It ... Exercising With Fibromyalgia and science based articles like The Correlation between Caffeine and Pain and Dopamine and The Fibro Brain.

The great thing is that all the articles are written by people who have Fibromyalgia. So click on a link below to find out more or share a link of your own.

Fibro Tip of The Week

The tip this week is to use DISTRACTION to handle your Fibromyalgia pain.
Now WAIT before you click away in disgust it works for me
BUT it has recently been scientifically proven to be better than pain killers.

Shelley at Chronic Mom has not one but 8 tips to distract yourself from chronic pain. Yeah! Check them out here. I bet you aren't using all of them. You can see all 8 here 

Fibromyalgia Information

Welcome to Fibro Friday. We are so pleased you are here. 

We are sharing up-to-date Fibromyalgia information and articles to help people understand more about Fibro and find other people to connect with who have fibro.

Please join in by sharing a link and visiting a link or just simple clicking on the topics that interest you. 

Each week you will find helpful articles and techniques to help you live with this condition such as How I Handle Fibro Flare Days and 8 Simple Meal Ideas for the Chronically Ill and 10 Ways to Master Resilience When you have Fibromyalgia, product reviews such as The Sit & Sigh Bath Cushion and articles on the latest research into Fibromyalgia (FM).

Fibro Tip of the Week - blogging with speech recognition

This week's fibro tip comes from Living With Fibromyalgia which is run by a guy with Fibro who loves technical tips to help make living with Fibromyalgia much easier. In his Dragon Naturally Speaking video and article he explains how to blog faster by using speech recognition.

This is a great tip for people who have chronic pain, muscle problems and RSI or Carpel Tunnel. he has other great articles including:

• Less Pain More Work, Add Contacts to Email Faster
• 4 Tips to Using Speech Recognition in Your Daily Life
• Improving Accuracy of Recognition