Therapy for Fibromyalgia recovery

Sometimes described as ME with pain, Fibromyalgia can have a debilitating effect on life, reducing daily activities to a painful drudgery. Have you found pain killers or muscle relaxants to bring about only short term benefits? Help is here to discover the source of these symptoms and long term solutions.

Here are some common treatments for Fibromyalgia:

1. Exercise - Your doctor or physiotherapist may advise you to include some form of exercise each day, incorporating aerobic exercise, resistance (strength) training and stretching exercises. Staying active can improve your general wellbeing and counter the narrowing effect symptoms can have on your activities. Additionally, relaxation techniques like breath work or mindfulness can help manage stress.
2. Talking Therapies - The body can use symptoms of pain to get our attention. In the same way pain can move us to avoid physical harm - like moving our hand away from a hot object - it can also move us to avoid emotional harm. To the body, physical and emotional safety are the same and the same circuits of pain can be used to alert us to emotional dangers. If the way we're using our energy, or responding to life, is deemed unsafe, symptoms of pain can prompt us to change our behaviour. Mental health coaching can help identify emotionally unsafe behaviours and different courses of action to keep us safe.  
3. Medication - Your doctor may offer you antidepressants, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), paracetamol, and opioids. To help with sleep disturbance, a medicine normally used to treat epilepsy may be offered.