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/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 12:00:48 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=48 “Self development is a higher duty than self sacrifice”, Elizabeth Stanton As I read more and more about brain mapping and how to change the pain mappings in my brain I am reminded about how intensely I wrote in my book regarding the highly sensitive person (HSP, according to Elaine Aron). This is the ‘empath’, the [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/feed/ 6