Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) affects as many as 6 to 10 million men, women and children in the United States alone, yet it is not a disease entity that is easily understood, classified or treated. Part of that may be because of the shroud of confusion regarding the illness.
Fibromyalgia is recognized as enough of a legitimate medical problem that the Social Security Administration sees fit to classify it in cases of disability within the language of their regulation 99-2p.
Note: people who meet that criteria were originally intended to be ones suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), but as the regulation’s wording implies, it was extended to cover Fibromyalgia, too. (*See 2 through 8 at the end of the regulation for more information. If you intend to file for SSA or SSI disability, print out a copy of the regulation and study it. You must meet the exact qualifications to be classed as having a disability.)
To meet the statutory requirements for disability…
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Most of us stay confused about which foods are good for us and which ones we should avoid. I count myself among you. One day a food sits squarely on the absolutely good list and then it’s demoted. Other times we think something is horrible and it turns out not to be so bad.
In this instance I give you sugar. Long, long ago we heard how bad sugar was for us and how the average American eats tons of it. (Literally tons!) The other day I heard a dietician say a little sugar wasn’t so bad. To me that’s pretty much malarkey. Ingesting sugar not only causes your internal sugar regulation to go haywire, it also gives your Adrenal system and HPA axis a real hit.
Plus, if you consume sugar and you have Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or an autoimmune illness (like auto-immune induced arthritis), it will make you feel a lot worse afterwards. Sugar can increase your achiness all the way to full scale, total pain blowout, because of its tendency to increase inflammation in the body.
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As this site progresses, we see that people have a lot of diversified interests and questions. That’s logical since both Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are such complicated ailments. And that doesn’t count the myriad of other health problems that someone can acquire at the very same time.
Considering that we can suffer with…
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As we socialize with friends and loved ones this Memorial holiday season, we are prone to reminisce about family, sacrifices and time gone by. That can be a good thing.
What about the wonderful memories? What about the not-so-good ones? They all get mixed in that soup we call life. If we make the effort to “remember when…”
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Maybe you’ve heard that people with Fibromyalgia can be affected by their diet and maybe you haven’t. Everyday evidence suggests that many people react “symptom-wise” to what they eat (ingest).
Here is one example:
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