Fibro Blogs, Fibromyalgia

How Viruses Affect Those With Chronic Illness

To healthy people, a cold is a minor inconvenience. To someone living with a weakened immune system it can mean so much more. Since covid, people have more of an appreciation of how bad symptoms can be, but with chronic illness, any mild cold can become deadly, or at least severe. You can feel like… Continue reading How Viruses Affect Those With Chronic Illness

Fibro Blogs, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia Poems

Fibromyalgia and ME

Fibromyalgia is a part of me,I didn't realise how much it could be.It's not just this condition I have to live with,I also deal with ME. ME makes my fatigue a separate entity, But it doesn't change my identity. I do my best with what I've got, But it's difficult to deal with mentally. Sometimes… Continue reading Fibromyalgia and ME

Fibro Blogs, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia Poems

The Truth about Living with Fibromyalgia

It is more painful than you can imagine Every second of every day Even when I'm smiling Even when I'm having fun My toe suddenly hurts when I walk My knees feel battered and bruised My back falls apart doing the simplest of tasks And my hands ache so badly Flare ups are the worst… Continue reading The Truth about Living with Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia Poems

The Truth about Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is constant and never lets up I cannot remember what it was like before When I didn't suffer every minute of every day Even when I'm having fun I'm never truly free Sometimes there are signs for others to notice If you look really carefully you will see the pain The way I… Continue reading The Truth about Chronic Pain

Fibromyalgia Poems

Pain is…

Unrelenting, it does not give in Unending, it goes on and on and on Unforgiving, it targets anyone and knocks you down at the worst of times Unaccommodating, it gets in the way all the time Unimaginable and unthinkable, surely it cannot be this bad! Uncompassionate and unsympathetic, it does not care how you feel… Continue reading Pain is…

Fibromyalgia Poems

To the Person who Called Me Lazy

To the person who called me lazy You didn't see my struggle You didn't notice the pain in my eyes Or why I couldn't use the stairs today ... I try my very best to act normal As though I'm not in pain As though I'm not too tired to function Like I'm a normal… Continue reading To the Person who Called Me Lazy