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Lady Gaga says this is what having fibromyalgia feels like: ‘It’s every day waking up not knowing how you’re going to feel’ Five years ago, Lady Gaga revealed that she had fibromyalgia, a chronic illness so intense that it led to “severe pain” and tour cancellations during her music career. Fibromyalgia is a long-lasting disorder that “causes pain and tenderness throughout the body,” according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. But while its effects can have severe impacts on those with the disease, some people don’t view it as an…

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6 Aspects of Fibromyalgia Doctors Don’t Share Chronic, widespread pain muscle spasms and weakness, migraines, morning stiffness, sensitivity to touch, insomnia, and brain fog are recognizable symptoms of fibromyalgia. But these are not the only struggles associated with the syndrome. Here are 6 aspects of chronic illness the doctors Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is nothing to be ashamed about, yet many patients hang their heads when discussing it. How often do you visit the specialist and hear, “Have you been doing your yoga?” or “Are you still eating…

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Lady Gaga’s Netflix Documentary puts Fibromyalgia Front and Center About 38 minutes into the film, after a moving scene in which Gaga plays a song for her father and grandmother, we see her in a full blown fibro flare, which at the time of the filming was undiagnosed. We see Lady Gaga, lying on the couch under a towel, crying, describing “the entire right side of my body in a spasm.” It’s powerful, and something that every person with fibromyalgia has gone through. She even acknowledges, to her credit, I…

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Marijuana is a Psychoactive Drug. But is it Really a Medicine? Marijuana laws are changing rapidly, but as of now, adults can use it recreationally in just 10 states. That number more than triples when it comes to medical marijuana, which is legal in 33 states. So which is it: A pleasure drug or a pharmaceutical one? And what difference does that make when it comes to regulating cannabis? These are questions to consider as states like Illinois explore moving from a medical program to a more open-ended recreational one.…

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Patients with Chiari Type 1 Malformation and Syringomyelia Often Told “It’s all in Your Head” The symptoms can be so similar to a host of other conditions that patients are often told that their chronic headaches and muscle weakness are psychosomatic, or that the symptoms are “all in their head.” Patients with syringomyelia and Chiari Type 1 often present with an intense, burning-type nerve pain and/or headaches, among other symptoms. Chiari is indeed in the head, but it is a physical condition, most often congenital in nature. According to the…

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Nearly 20% of People with Spondyloarthritis Also Have Fibromyalgia, New Data Show Female patients were much more likely to have a dual diagnosis. Small studies have suggested an overlap between spondyloarthritis (SpA) and fibromyalgia, but now a larger meta-analysis confirms it: About 17 percent of SpA patients also have fibromyalgia, compared to 2 to 8 percent of the general population that has fibromyalgia These findings, which were based on an analysis of 15 earlier observational trials, were presented at the 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Professionals (ACR/ARP) Annual Meeting…

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