Day 22: Three types of fibromyalgia pain
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- There are 3 distinct types of fibromyalgia pain and each need to be treated differently.
About me: I graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and am board-certified in internal medicine. After developing fibromyalgia in medical school I was able to find integrative treatments that helped me feel much better. I share my complete treatment approach in my book The FibroManual amzn.to/3Uql7wg
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You might find something helpful...? No...ALL of the book is so helpful! I've read it and reread it like a textbook. I'm now going back and doing shortened notes and compiling all the try this and that suggestions. Thank you, thank you for this straight forward resource. 😊
I am SO glad my book has been a helpful resource for you! That makes me really happy to hear.
Cymbalta has helped me quite a bit to manage my pain. I have also felt better after giving up dairy and I’m now trying going gluten free. Thank you for these videos. They’re really helpful!!
So glad my videos are helpful!
Glad to see you have a "happy place" Yes I am the Princes and a Pea. Should really be Princess with a Pain. Just dont touch me. Bright light, loud noises, hypersensitive to everything, physical and emotional. Then there are the MDs who still think your crazy when you tell them you have fibromyalgia.. Right now I have a torn rotator cuff that the surgeon will not operate on. Says the pain from surgery is worse and does not want to five narcotics. I am currently using Topricin and your CBD balm. You are getting so close to Day 30. Yay for you !
I have done lots of reading on fibromialgia, to learn about it as well as to learn how to explain it...i wish i had found your video years ago. The most difficult thing to deal is the fact that so many health professionals still dont get fibro pains...theres not one kind of pain only, and it might change locations inyour body fron one hour to the other. An Occupational therapist asked me to show him how i get on/off my bed...he gave me a crazy woman look why i explain that how i do it varies according to whats hurting the most at the moment😢
Do you have a video where you explain the type of inflammation seen in fibromyalgia? You mentioned standard markers for inflammation are often negative. Would like to share that my CRP and SED rate have been slightly elevated but doctors seem to deem that insignificant.
I found Dr. Ginevra gave apt descriptions of the types of fibromyalgia pain that I have personally experienced. There are two points where my experience differs.... inflamation does show up in my blood work however I am not sure whether this only occurs when I am in a severe flare up. Secondly, there is specific pain that is intense, often sharp, to the point it stops your breath and is not as common occuring as the other 3 pain categories Dr. Ginevra mentions.
LDN and Cymbalta have been life changing. Plus excise and CBT therapy. Food doesn’t change how I feel. I also have been getting Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT). All of these things in combination I think I just put my fibromyalgia into relapse plus it’s summer and I’m warm all the time so that helps too. I’ll see if it gets worse in winter or if more stressful things happen in my life.
Yes, magnesium Epsom salt bath, once a week, fish oil every day and vitamin D, as well as multivitamin
I have loved your videos but felt very alone when watching this one. The reason is my pain is not in those categories. Way, way worse. I have pain like razor blades, glass pieces cutting into my skin, stabbings like needles all over and, rarely, little electric shocks. In other words, nerve pain. Can you please address this type of pain? Thank you.
You are definitely not alone in your experience of that type of pain! At least half of fibromyalgia patients experience nerve pain/neuropathy which is usually located in feet or hands,, and then almost all of us experience what I call migrating neurological "weirdness" which can manifest just as you described. I will go more into the neurological aspects of fibromyalgia pain in other videos in the future.
well, you didn't promise 30 consecutive days! I'm so glad you have a happy place.
Lol that's true! and thank you :)
Hi Dr Ginerva. I found a low carb diet and taking out nightshades reduced inflammation for me. I am also dairy and gluten free.
Thanks for sharing!
No idea how I came to find you….but here I am….listening to someone not only experiencing same pain I have but a Doctor….i am an NP…have been for 30 years…have had many patients and family with FM….not once I thought I would end up with it…..due to my pain and fatigue I now work from home …consider myself lucky I can still work….have tried so many things for FM….magnesium, iron supplements , CBD, melatonin, Naloxone, Duloxetine, CBD, meditation, prescription sleep medications , depression medication. I am 60 years and have had time to try many things. One day I told my husband my pain felt like a “big bruise” all over my body. Felt like I had exercised too much, feverish and muscle tightness…so I started was thinking about trying muscle relaxers before bedtime but I rather try the “Fascia” treatment That makes perfect sense to me…I don’t take any of the medications I mentioned before. Ordered your book. Here goes nothing….thank your for making this videos and working so hard to help others ❤❤❤❤
It can be so healing to feel understood in our fibro struggles. As you will soon read about in my book I highly recommend fascial-directed therapies like myofascial release to reduce fibromyalgia pain. And thank you for your kind words 🙏
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Beautiful yard!
Thank you! It's a work in progress for sure!
Hi Dr. Ginevra. I think I have fibromyalgia, based only on my symptoms. However, I am also blaming my ferritin level which is only 7mcg/L. Are these two connected or they are two different conditions? Thanks!
I read a paper that showed people with Fibro have lowered Ferritin levels, that said mine are double the max limit (fibro is weird). You should get yourself checked out by a Rheumatologist, you could have something similar but more treatable like Polymyalgia. All the best
Low ferritin (low iron) and anemia can cause fatigue and brain fog and is one of the medical conditions that need to be ruled out before a fibromyalgia diagnosis can be made. Of course people can definitely have both anemia and fibromyalgia. Make sure to talk with your health care provider!
@@thefibroshow Thank you for your reply doctor. I really appreciate it. ♥
Hi, would joint pain come under inflammation treatment? ... Much like yourself all tests say I don't have inflammation
Joint pain is a classic way inflammation manifests in the body.
Hi, so your joints can have pain but without the damage of something like Rheumatoid Arthritis? Is this correct? I have terrible joint pain but always thought Fibromyalgia was only in the muscles and tendons.
Also get really bad tooth and gum pain that moves side to side of my mouth. It’s so horrible.
Joints can definitely be painful in fibromyalgia!
I love your videos! Thanks for making them:)
So glad you are enjoying!
Great video i think your doing great keeping up with everything
Thank you!
Thank you 🙏🏼💜You are amazing 💜
Awwh thank you!