by Kit Caelsto | Sep 12, 2023 | Chronic Pain, fibro life
Catastrophizing means that someone becomes obsessed with the worst possible outcome and treats it as likely, even when it’s not. For chronic pain sufferers, and especially people with fibromyalgia who often don’t receive adequate pain treatment, it means...
by Kit Caelsto | Aug 22, 2023 | Chronic Pain, disability advocacy, fibro life
When we look at the current state of yoga research, the trend in most capitalist countries is to put it into a scientific study, show how it improves conditions that our medical industrial complex really doesn’t want to treat, and then use that as proof that...
by Kit Caelsto | Aug 8, 2023 | disability advocacy, fibro life
Recently I’ve made the switch to Mastodon from Twitter/X, but even when I was on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, I noticed that the hashtag fibromyalgia came up a lot less than certain other conditions. In fact, even when things were being...
by Kit Caelsto | Jul 11, 2023 | Chronic Pain
Ask any fibromyalgia patient about the daily thrum of pain that fills our bodies. For most, it can be a low hum, background noise, white noise, but then something happens, or the weather shifts, and the pain moves as well. It starts to scream and yell, to rage against...
by Kit Caelsto | Jun 20, 2023 | Chronic Pain
It’s the proverbial chicken and egg question. Yoga and gentle movement is recommended for fibromyalgia. But one of the common symptoms is chronic, widespread pain. So either you hurt too much to want to move, or you wonder if you should move if you’re in...
by Kit Caelsto | May 30, 2023 | Chronic Pain, Yoga Poses
In many able-bodied yoga classes (I use that term to differentiate from accessible/chronic illness aware yoga classes.) yoga instructors tell students they can “rest in child’s pose” if they can’t perform a pose or variation or feel as if the...
by Kit Caelsto | Mar 15, 2023 | General Posts
I received my fibromyalgia diagnosis in the early 2000s, and sadly, the advice for the condition hasn’t changed much since then. Try the “big 3 meds”, and if they don’t work, do yoga. Sure, I had one doctor tell me to “eat the...
