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Does anyone else absolutely hate when celebrities have your diagnosis because suddenly you’re expected to be able to work yourself to death with 0.0001% of the financial and medical advantages that celebrity has

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HELP IM FLARING AND I CANT FOCUS ON TREATMENT AHHH

shhh dont worry sweet summer child here is a checklist to follow

rest

massage

hot water

heat wrap/pad

topical oitment

TENS unit

CBD alternatives

oral medication

i suggest waiting 15 - 30 minutes between each option to see what worked best for you and then write it down!!!

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I wish people would literally take 5 minutes to look up and confirm that there is no treatment and no help and little to no information in the first place about literally any given chronic illness let alone auto-immune ones

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My favorite ambulatory wheelchair user experience is going to use my chair only to see one of the cats is laying on it

My least favorite experience is going to use my chair only to see literally anything else got thrown on it

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“You’re using your diagnosis as an excuse to be lazy” Oh I’m glad you asked! Here’s my average step count from the past year with the month of diagnosis starred:

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Identifying & Treating Trigger Point Pain

* while trigger points are no longer a Fibromyalgia diagnosis criteria, many patients still experience MTPs especially in the former 6 labeled points

Do you have muscle nodules that hurt all the time  and radiate pain when pressed? These areas are myofascial trigger points (MTPs). Identifying and treating trigger point pain is essential for reigning in your discomfort. One or two MTPs cause regional pains in many people (such as tennis elbow or low back pain). But fibromyalgia patients are different. An AFSA-funded study shows you have lots of MTPs sprinkled throughout your body.

Where do you normally find MTPs?

typically reside in the belly of muscles

feel like a hard knot in a firm cord running the length of the muscle

an area where the muscle fibers are contracted and will not relax unless properly treated.

MTPs cause more than pain. They make your muscles feel tight and restrict your range of motion. Latent versions of MTPs don’t hurt unless pressed, but active versions are more evolved. They hurt all the time without any prodding. As a fibromyalgia patient, you probably have a dozen active MTPs and another dozen latents.

Treatment Opportunities

You don’t want to stretch muscles containing MTPs without applying pressure to minimize your MTPs

Use your thumb, index finger, or a rubber ball to place pressure on your trigger points to work them out

Start with a moderate amount of pressure that produces mild discomfort. Hold that pressure for 10-12 seconds. (At first, try this in a hot tub or shower to relax your muscles and increase blood flow.)

If your pain increases, you are using too much pressure. Let the muscle relax for a minute and try it again with less pressure. The pain should lessen/release.

Next, increase the pressure by a very small amount and hold it for 10-12 seconds. You should get another release.

Repeat this procedure up to four times. The release may start to come more slowly.

After the fourth time, let go and work on another point. In a few minutes you can work on the same point again

Keep the muscle lengthened to its full comfortable stretch length while pressing on the MTP. This facilitates the effectiveness of your therapy.

MTPs contain chemicals that irritate nerve endings. They are released to the nearby tissues when the muscle fibers relax and need to be flushed away by the circulation. drink lots of water and regularly apply heat to the treated areas during the next 24 hours.

“Think of your muscles as a set of springs, with the area in the MTP being the tightest wound spring in the entire muscle,” says Headley. “If you stretch the muscle, all the other ‘springs’ will stretch before the tight spring where the taut band and the MTP are located. You will end up with an overstretched muscle, but the MTP will remain. For this reason, stretching alone should be done after the MTP has been released (i.e., worked out), or when it first starts to tighten up again.”

Perpetuating Factors

Factors that encourage the development and perpetuation of MTPs must be resolved for therapies to work. Simons’ Trigger Point Manual addresses these factors, and a summary is below. Perpetuating factors work by creating an “energy tax” . This leaves muscles more vulnerable to developing MTPs.

Mechanical Stress: Avoid working in a chair without lumbar support, performing repetitive actions, or leaning your head forward while reading.

Nutritional Inadequacies: When nutrients are low, but not necessarily deficient, these inadequacies can interfere with the resolution of the MTPs. Be sure to take a good multi-vitamin with minerals.

Metabolic Conditions: Hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia, and allergies exacerbate MTPs. If you have any of these conditions, get treatment for them.

Other Factors: Chronic viral infections and impaired sleep may contribute to the perpetuation of MTPs.

source: fibromyalgiafund.org

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sometimes people are disabled to the point they cant do anything. sometimes a bitch is more disabled than you. thats fine youll catch up in a year or so stop fighting w each other.

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