Tips on Meal Planning with Fibromyalgia

The other day I was easily preparing dinner in the kitchen for my children and my sister and her children. My five year old nephew was sitting at the table very anxiously awaiting our chicken fettuccine meal and assuring me that this was going to be a very good dinner. He was clearly excited. I w

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Cut Down on Stress :Tips for Dealing with Phone Calls

Sometimes when you are in frequent chronic pain, you cannot avoid making those annoying phone calls to business or big corporations with large call centers, like insurance or credit card companies. After working in a call center environment for fourteen years and having daily chronic pain due to mig

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Sleep- Not Always Easy to Get

August is "Good Night, Sleep Right" month at ButYouDontLookSick.com! As many of us know sleep can often be a dream in itself when you’re lying in bed at night wide eyed and frustrated, unable to fall asleep. With many chronic illnesses and many medications comes the dreaded insomnia, but although

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Heathy Eating Month: Canned Foods: Healthy?!

Sometimes there are times in life that we’re too busy, too sick, too tired, or too over-worked to stop at the grocery and get fresh food. What happens when we’re stuck in the house with no fresh food to eat? Worse: what happens when you have to feed others with the bare minimum of food in the ho

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“Spoonie” Household Cleaning and Organizing Tips:

This very helpful general list of "life learned" tips and suggestions was written by one of our message board moderators, LindaK. (With some help and tips from other members.)This list is chock filled with helpful goodies that will save you "spoons"!. General Tips: •Do what you can and don't wor

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How To Feel Sexy When You Are In Pain?

When our beloved Christine suggested an article on this topic, I have to admit my first gut reaction was "Why should I HAVE to pretend to feel sexy when I'm in pain?" It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I got all defensive immediately and got that emotional guard wall up and thought o

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2007’s Top Ten “Disability Hygiene” Helper List

These helpful items and ideas will soon become a staple in your home. 1. A long, absorbent, cotton terrycloth robe is soft and can take the place of having to use a towel. 2. Make soap, shampoo, and hair conditioner easier to use and more cost effective by buying a container for each with a pump

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School Issues – Don’t let school get you down, work it out

School is difficult for many students. Unfortunately when you add a chronic illness to the list of stresses, it get’s even more difficult. I know this personally, as a 17 year old teenager with Psoriatic Arthritis I have to deal with many issues that make school even harder for me. I was homesch

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Going organic?

Have you thought about it? I have! In fact, I find that when I eat organic and hormone-free foods, I actually feel better. It's not surprising, if you consider that recumbent bovine growth hormone (rBGH) actually makes the animals themselves sick. The company that makes the hormone even has to mak

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Do you Have a Power WORD?

For the past seven years, I have begun my days at 5:15 in the morning. I get up that early in the morning, because each day I have an important “date” to go on- my “sacred date.” My sacred date consists of me, prayer, meditation and a strong cup of coffee. I meet this part of the day with

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