http://womenandfibromyalgia.com Living with an Invisible Dis-ease Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:14:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/06/13/fibromyalgia-and-treatment/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/06/13/fibromyalgia-and-treatment/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:09:46 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=69 “What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me”, Helen Keller The idea that fibromyalgia can be ‘cured’ through medications is erroneous. Drugs such as Neurontin or Lyrica can sometimes be effective to control the symptoms in some people with fibromyalgia some of the time. Is this really treatment or merely masking the [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/06/13/fibromyalgia-and-treatment/feed/ 7 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 15:20:30 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=49 “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn”, Gloria Steinem Women are often prone to say that we are experts on multi-tasking whereas men are more linear and less circular in their thinking. This of course suggests then, if this is accurate, that it is more difficult [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/feed/ 4 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:07 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=44 “Memory, the warder of the brain”, William Shakespeare This is it!!! In my view this is the most significant in-sight I have had about the pain of fibromyalgia. It has been a long and interesting journey beginning with my book in which I laid the foundation about why women are more prone to developing FMS and my [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/feed/ 6