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Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatique Syndrome – Eating Habits – Part 3

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In my first blog on this topic, I discussed how I had been diagnosed with these strange illnesses and how massage helped many of the problems. In my second blog entry, I discussed the food allergies I discovered and took control of. Now I will discuss more about my eating habits. I grew up eating and loving Chef Boy Ardee and Spaghettio’s. In fact, I would have eaten it every day if I was allowed to – or anything with tomato sauce for that matter. Vegetables were nothing I would… Read more Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatique Syndrome – Eating Habits – Part 3 →

Beating Fibromyalgia and CFS, Allergy Tests – Part 2

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Sometime around 2002 someone finally convinced me to get tested for allergies. Thankfully, I had insurance so the visits and tests were covered. I discovered through an allergist that I was allergic to grass, ragweed, pine, and milk. The pine allergy would definitely explain much of the misery I felt in 1997-1999 because I lived in northern Florida in the middle of a pine forest! As I had stated in my last blog, this is when the joint popping and cracking issues began. Basically, I could do nothing about the… Read more Beating Fibromyalgia and CFS, Allergy Tests – Part 2 →

Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Part I

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Shortly after my twenty-first birthday, I started noticing that I wasn’t feeling well most of the time. After visiting the doctor and coming back with normal blood work results, I was relieved that nothing “bad” showed up, but at the same time I was also disappointed that there was no explanation for my symptoms. The doctor I was seeing at the time diagnosed me with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a disorder that I hadn’t ever heard until then and knew nothing about. At the time, there was no internet access or… Read more Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Part I →