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Fibromyalgia Support Group Meeting 19th June 2010

June 16th, 2010 · Comments · Emirates Arthritis Foundation, Fibromyalgia, Support Group, UAE Fibro Community

We will have our second monthly meeting for the Fibromyalgia Support Group Meeting on the 19th of June 2010.  Monthly meetings are scheduled for the third Saturday of each month.  This month’s meeting will take place at Café Blanc, Dubai Festival City, at 10am.  This is a time where we can meet, support each other [...]

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Fibromyalgia Awareness Day Event

May 10th, 2010 · Comments · Causes, Emirates Arthritis Foundation, Fibromyalgia, UAE, UAE Fibro Community

On May 15th 2010, there will be a meeting in support of Fibromyalgia at Organic Foods and Cafe, located at The Dubai Mall.  This event is hosted by Emirates Arthritis Foundation will take place at 10:30 am and there will be a tour of the gluten foods that the Organic Foods and Cafe offers.  I [...]

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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day

April 27th, 2010 · Comments · Causes, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Family, Fibromyalgia, News

Mark your calenders May the 15th is Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day.  I encourage anyone that is affected by this, to use your voice to tell your story.  By sharing our stories we can help educate and raise the awareness of this very complex disease.  Better yet, we can use our voices to [...]

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Stress Management Workshop

April 23rd, 2010 · Comments · Causes, Emirates Arthritis Foundation, Fibromyalgia, UAE

Last weekend the Emirates Arthritis Foundation held a Stress Management Workshop, and it was a lot of fun.  As people with Fibromyalgia know, stress can be a big trigger for a flare.  This stress can be physical or mental, or a combo of both.  It was really nice to hear people talking about how we [...]

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Medications to help with Fibromyalgia

March 14th, 2010 · Comments · Fibromyalgia, Treatment

Here in the UAE it is hard to find the right meds to help you deal with the different things that Fibromyalgia brings, and the meds you do find here, are most likely not covered by insurance.  Let’s be real, even in most countries it is hard to find the meds you need, because we [...]

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Fibromyalgia and Lipomas

February 18th, 2010 · Comments · Fibromyalgia, Lipomas, Symptoms

I little of a year ago I started to get these big knots in my arms, legs and back, and no one seems to know what they really are.  The knots seem to get bigger and more painful when I am having a flare.  Since non of my doctors seemed to know what is causing this, [...]

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Could XMRV Retrovirus be the cause of Fibromyalgia?

February 6th, 2010 · Comments · Causes, Doctors/Centers, Fibromyalgia, Treatment

Has the Whittemore Peterson Institute found the answers to Fibromyalgia and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Well in a small study they say that they found a retrovirus in most people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis.
We have detected the retroviral infection XMRV is greater than 95% of the more than 200 ME/CFS, Fibromylagia, Atypical [...]

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Fibromyalgia Sucks!

February 6th, 2010 · Comments · Family, Fibromyalgia

I am just going to come right out and say it, Fibromyalgia sucks!
That is right, anything to do with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatique Syndrome, is horrible.  You never know what will come next and just when you think you might understand this disease, it changes on you.  You have to learn that you just can [...]

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How low can the iron go?

February 5th, 2010 · Comments · B12, Ferritin, Fibromyalgia, Symptoms, Thyroid, Treatment, Vitamin D, iron

Well it has been a while since I last wrote, but it has been an interesting time.  It seems that my iron levels are also affected with Fibromyalgia, and they got really low in November and December.  My iron and Ferritin (a protein that stores and releases iron in the body) levels were so low [...]

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Update

August 24th, 2009 · Comments · Books, Causes, Doctors/Centers, Fibromyalgia, Symptoms, Treatment

The time that I have been back from my treatment in the US, has been long and hard time. My lower back has been giving me a hard time, and it wasn’t until the last week or so that it has been better. I even went to the ER because I could not [...]

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