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4 Tips To Live Better With Fibromyalgia


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Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition for which there is currently no cure. It can complicate life and also lead to a serious drop in quality of life for those who are living with this painful illness. The pain can one day be mild enough to allow you to go for a hike, but the very next leave you in such excruciating pain that you cannot even make it up off the sofa.

Along with the treatments and solutions offered by your healthcare professional, there are some easy to integrate solutions that’ll help you to live your best life with fibromyalgia.

1. Get a good night of rest

It sounds simple, right? But for the average person, lost sleep just generally leads to feeling tired at work or being in need of an extra caffeine boost. For the person who is living with fibromyalgia, lost sleep can mean something else entirely. Struggling with a lack of sleep can cause the pain to intensify. Widespread pain can then in turn make it feel like it’s almost impossible to fall asleep at the end of your tired day.

It can turn into a vicious cycle without an end until you rely on medications to help reduce the pain and help to encourage you to fall asleep.

So be sure that you are able to get a full night of rest when your body feels good, so that you can help to avoid those run down feelings that lead to an intensifying pain.

2. Getting physically active

One of the concerns faced by those who live with fibromyalgia is the eventual loss of muscle. This can also lead to additional pain and additional loss of quality of life. This loss of muscle can be combatted by staying as active as you possibly can. No one is suggesting that you go for a run each day, as running is not always possible for all of us. But short walks, yoga, stretching and other low impact aerobics activities can make a world of difference for your body.

The key is to continuously engage in moderate exercise that will help you to retain your muscles.

3. Eating a healthy wholesome diet

It may seem like a cliché to say that eating right can help to keep you happy and healthy. The reality is that more weight on your body will make it harder to get up and get moving. Not only that, but studies have demonstrated that there are some certain foods that actually make the symptoms of fibromyalgia and the levels of pain much worse.

You may need to start with an elimination diet in order to determine which foods may cause a sensitivity reaction in your body. Many who do live with fibromyalgia have learned that avoiding heavily processed meats and other foods, along with sugars and carbohydrates can help significantly with the management of the fibromyalgia pain and other symptoms.

4. Listen to what your body is telling you

Sometimes we tend to avoid resting, relaxing, and generally avoid listening to what our bodies are trying to tell us. This can lead us to overdoing it on physical activities that are just too strenuous for us, or also lead us to overdoing it at a family function on the foods that we know will leave us feeling absolutely miserable.

Take the time to listen to what your body is telling you. Pay attention to those subtle signs like slow pain flare-ups in your legs or arms. Take the time for a little bit of self-care, and also for those other treatments that can help you to effectively manage your pain and the other symptoms of your illness.

Get rest, and try to get a full night of sleep. Take your medications as prescribed, and of course reach out to your healthcare professionals if your fibromyalgia seems like it is accelerating and not responding to the medications that you are taking.

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Kelsey Harris

Associate Writer

Kelsey joined the Wavez staff in June 2019 and has been impressing readers ever since. She graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in English and specializes in our Health and Finance categories.