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Manage Flare-ups Better

7/4/2014

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Pain and fatigue of fibromyalgia may intensify when holidays pop up.  You can minimalism these effects if you incorporation a few precautions when you begin to feel the first onset of a flare-up.

Apply Heat

Heat from hot water bottle, hot bath or shower, hot pad, or wheat pillow that can be heated in the microwave helps relax muscles thereby relieving pain and stiffness.  For stiff aching hands fill a washbasin with warm water, apply a little bit of olive oil, and massage underwater.

Massage

See if your doctor can order physical therapy.  Numerous studies have pointed to doctor prescribed PT for fibromyalgia.  Patients note 50% less flare-ups when relieving manipulative therapy.  Or, ask partner or friend to help ease these sore muscles and lift our spirits.  

Know your Triggers

Once you've got them labeled do what you can at all cost to eliminate them.  If stress is to blame, step back.  Come to terms that you have an illness and there is nothing wrong with bowing out.  If you can't remove yourself, then at least take a break from time to time and pace yourself.

Get More Sleep

Make sure that you incorporate a rest period each day.  Just you, lying there with some favorite reads or a good movie.  Try getting to bed earlier or sleeping in later on the weekends.  

Adjust Your Exercise

If you think you might have overdone it lately, ease up.  Exercise helps many fibromyalgia suffers.  In fact, most doctors routinely prescribe light activity to ease the pains of fibromyalgia.  If you have difficulty doing simple tasks try incorporating some light yoga to stretch muscles.

Keep Your Mind off the Pain

They say out of site out of mind can ease the firing of pain signals.  Try doing relaxing activities you enjoy. Get out your phone, play that game you enjoy.  Focus on reading more- you can read more than one book at a time!  Grab some titles that interest you and take you away.  Try arts and craft activities or take up writing like me!

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Stephen in Florida link
8/26/2014 09:41:14 am

I know that regular exercise can seem quite daunting for someone trying to manage the chronic pain and other symptoms associated with fibromyalgia. That being said, my research has shown that aquatic aerobics may be one of the best ways that someone with fibromyalgia can get more exercise. Being in the water can significantly reduce resistance and excess stress on the body.

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