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The Challenge of Kilimanjaro by Pam Stewart
I now know more about what it feels like to have fibromyalgia. First of all I had to learn to go slowly (or pole, as they say in Swaheli) to pace myself for the climb. This was very frustrating on the first day and the beginning of the second. After that the effects of the altitude and walking for a full day in bright sunshine began to kick in. I was relieved when we reached camp, could eat in moderate comfort and snuggle into the sleeping bag. I had to rest the next day whilst the boys went for a gentle acclimatisation day; another similarity that those with fibromyalgia will relate to. The following day I no longer found the pace frustrating...
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Could You Benefit from Some Advice? By Kathy Longley
Ever had
problems claiming benefits? Mystified by the endless forms and
assessments? Wish you had more inside information? Well, help is now at
hand from an excellent website called benefitsandwork.co.uk. The site
has been set up by Steve Donnison, a former welfare worker for the
Citizen's Advice Bureau and other organisations, to offer independent
advice to anyone seeking more information regarding claiming benefits
or getting back into work. Steve decided to launch the website due to
becoming frustrated with the little amounts of information that people
had access to. "Almost all the information available was produced by
the DWP [Department of Work and Pensions] and other government bodies
or by charities who, in general, tend to be very careful about what
they say. Charities will criticise government projects up to a degree,
but only to a degree, so I felt there was an awful lot of information
that clients weren't being told."
FMSNI Medical Conference 2006 By Director Margaret Peacock
The Northern Ireland conference, held in the Europa Hotel, Belfast on 26th
August 2006 was truly a great success. We had a huge demand for
tickets; indeed we could have sold twice the number thanks to the huge
public interest. Professor Robert Bennett,
a world leading expert in fibromyalgia, spoke about the history of the
condition. He explained how it was first mentioned in a lecture given
by British doctor Sir William Gower in 1904 when he described
inflammation of fibrous tissues in the muscles of the lower back. He
called the condition lumbago or fibrositis due to the perceived
inflammation. The inflammatory nature has since been disproved but the
name stuck until Dr Muhammad Yunus and his group suggested the term
fibromyalgia syndrome in 1981. He went on to say that in the UK we are more than fifteen years behind in research and treatment...
Yorkshire & Humberside Fibromyalgia Regional Consortium Conference
Dr Derek Haines, who had worked with many fibromyalgia patients at
Castle Hills Hospital, in Hull prior to his retirement earlier in the
year, gave a presentation illustrating “A Medical Perspective of
Fibromyalgia” in which he explained that until relatively recently
fibromyalgia provoked a difference of opinion between patients and
doctors. The patients knew and felt that "something was wrong", yet all
the tests showed "no serious disease". The real problem was that
neither doctors nor patients could understand what was happening...
Pilates Exercise Study and Laughter Workshop by Christine Morton
As
group leader of the Sheffield FMS Group I conducted a study on the
‘Benefits of Pilates Exercises for Fibromites’ during the months of
June and July 2006, with myself as a tutor. I had hoped to have a
university student working with me to monitor the sessions and write up
this report, but sadly it was not meant to be. However, I chose to do
the whole study myself and five members from our group volunteered to
commit to a 2 hour session, one day per week, over a period of eight
weeks...
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