http://womenandfibromyalgia.com Living with an Invisible Dis-ease Thu, 10 May 2012 18:56:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:58:13 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1050 “When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel“, David D. Burns I have been pondering of late how I can change the nature of this website from that which focusses on symptoms and instead place more emphasis on neuroplasticity in action. Now as I write this 70th blog, for [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/feed/ 10 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 14:03:06 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=927 “Every man (sic) can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain”, Santiago Ramon Cajal I have before me books, newspaper clippings, magazines that speak to the phenomenal advances that are occurring in the area of brain science and remapping the brain. Just this week I have read in our Canadian newspaper [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/feed/ 2 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