The Frizzy Fibro

Fighting fibromyalgia & humidity daily.

Instagram

Giving My Boot the Boot

Giving My Boot the Boot

I had worked so hard… This August, on a trip to celebrate my 1 year anniversary of tackling my fibromyalgia, I tripped. More specifically, I fell HARD onto the cobblestone streets of Newport, Rhode Island. I was in sensible shoes, in perfect health (all things considered), and was not rushing or being careless. It was as if my ankle just up and quit on me and took the rest of my corporal body with it. This is a real setback, coming just in the moment when things were starting to go so well. Luciano Figueroa I didn’t deserve this. I…

View Post

Looking Sick

Looking Sick

“But you don’t look sick” – A seriously misguided or woefully misinformed person Oh lord, is there anything more dreaded than an uneducated comment like this one? In the year since my diagnosis, I have heard quite a few questions like this one from family, friends, coworkers, strangers, and even doctors (not all doctors are created equally, they are human too!). The “looking sick” question is probably the one I get the most. “When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every single day, is other people.”…

View Post

On this day a year ago…

On this day a year ago…

Life operates in a very cyclical way. I often find that certain times of year can be so good to me, while others are tied so closely with pain that the very recollection of them rubs salt in a wound I thought already scarred over. The summer has been unbelievably good to me – so good to me that I almost got away without reflecting on where I was this time last year: unemployed, unhappy and unable to picture a future that did not contain the daily physical pain I was experiencing. As I looked at my work calendar, something…

View Post

Doing Too Much

Doing Too Much

Writing the title of this post, I could not help but think of the lyric “Baby, am I doing too much?” from the similarly titled Paula DeAnda song. It’s weirdly appropriate that Paula posed it as a question, as I often have to ask my boyfriend if he thinks I am overdoing it. For today’s post, I wanted to discuss the topic of overexertion as it is a common problem for fibro patients and women in general. I feel like there are 2 specific types of overdoing it: when you feel well and when you don’t. When I feel well,…

View Post

My Sunblock Success

My Sunblock Success

Two back-to-back vacations have me BEAT! I apologize for being a bit MIA lately, but 7 days in Cabo followed by 3 days in the Catskills had my life in a constant state of chaos. My fellow fibros know that deviating from your schedule for even a day can bring on symptoms, so you can imagine how 10 days of travel over the course of 13 days has left my body feeling! Now that I am back home, I wanted to share some of my recent favorites in the sunblock department. SPF is essential for everyone, but its a matter…

View Post