By Libby Gustin, Andrew Gustin
Today, doctors are increasingly baffled by patients’ recurring aches, pains, and diseases. Often, unexplained issues are attributed to stress without exploring the source or helping people change how they experience their lives.
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With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”
Understand life with chronic illness in a way that’s never been explained before, using Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory.”
It’s the rare person who doesn’t need help coping with the stress, fatigue, and frustrations that chronic fatigue syndrome can bring. As a caregiver, you’ll need to learn all you can about chronic fatigue support.
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New ideas for living well, even if our health is less than ideal.
Will treatments like massage, Rolfing, the Bowen Technique, and Reiki help you with fibromyalgia (FMS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) symptoms? That all depends both on the form of bodywork as well as your specific symptoms.
Massage is the targeted manipulation of the body’s soft tissue through techniques such as kneading, rubbing, tapping, and stroking, either by hand or with the aid of massage tools. Depending on the style of massage, it can be done on a table, in a chair, on the floor, or even in water.
There are many options for managing symptoms and improving quality of life, including lifestyle changes, stress management, therapy, and medications.
You may want to keep a daily diary of your activities and symptoms, so you can track how much activity is too much for you. This may help you avoid pushing too hard on the days you feel good, which can result in a “crash” where you feel much worse later.
When Peter Keating took off from the starting line at the Boston Marathon, it was the realization of a dream come true, but he never imagined just how unique his 26.2-mile trek would be.
If you have suddenly been put into the role of caregiver, what should you do—and how can you stay strong while you do it?