Often called an invisible illness because the symptoms of fibromyalgia are not always easily seen, fibromyalgia is nevertheless a chronic condition that affects approximately five to ten million people in the U.S. Anyone can be affected, but the majority of sufferers are women. Fibromyalgia causes widespread pain and tenderness in the tendons, ligaments, and muscles of the body.
From Visually.
Fibromyalgia continues to be one of the most misdiagnosed medical conditions today with patients waiting on average 5 years to receive a correct diagnosis.
From Visually.
El 12 de Mayo es el día mundial de la fibromialgia, una enfermedad crónica muy dolorosa todavía poco conocida. Esta infografía la he realizado con especial cariño ya que una de las personas más importantes de mi vida tiene que convivir con ella cada día.
From Visually.
Depression
Depression: Signs & Symptoms. from the point of view of a woman with fibromyalgia.
This video is guide, to help you look out for subtle & obvious signs of Depression.
The more signs somebody has, the more likely they have Depression.
Bone broth and fibromyalgia
Jules Canterbury had become used to condensation dripping from the walls of her galley kitchen in Camberwell, south London. A long-time sufferer of fibromyalgia, a rheumatic condition that causes pain all over the body, she had taken to boiling “vats” of stock after a Sunday roast each week after finding it relieved her symptoms.
She would leave a chicken carcass or lamb bones with onions, carrots and lemon to simmer overnight, doling out portions of the stuff to her husband Richard, 41, and son Sacha, four, during the intervening days.
“The stench was vile – every time I’d go to prepare a batch, I’d wonder if the house would burn down,” recalls Jules, 39.
Convinced that others must be going through the same unpleasant process, she and her husband Richard began mulling over how things could be simplified. As the founder of Love Smoothies, which supplies frozen fruit and vegetable sachets that are blended with apple juice to the likes of Pret a Manger and Champneys, Richard hoped to use that same logic to bring a just-add-hot-water broth pod to the mass market.
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