Therapeutic Advice You Can Trust

Hi fibro-cfs friends,

A little fibro cfs “care talk”:

Today has been a good day! It’s been beautiful and sunny over Lake Michigan’s shoreline, with scattered thunderstorms disrupting activites for a time, then back to sunny again.

Isn’t that how You feel sometimes (or everyday) living with fibromyalgia/cfs? You’re biggest accomplishment of the day might have been crawling out of bed.

You need to hear from me right now

“fibromyalgia/cfs does not own You!”
The Sun will Shine! The sky may become covered with thunderstorms, but the Sun will Shine again!

Your friend,
Cheryl

For Over 10 years I have been treating patients with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and have communicated with sufferers from around the world. No matter what country the fibro or fatigue sufferers are from, I hear the same complaints over and over again.

• “I have tried everything to help my symptoms without success.”
• “My doctor said I just have to learn to live with it.”
• “I don’t want to be on medication for the rest of my life.”
• “They tell me it’s all in my head.”
• “People tell me I look fine. How can I be in so much pain all the time.”

It seems the sufferers who have gotten better, did so by addressing “areas” of their lives that their doctors didn’t focus on or attend to. These specific areas are related and contribute to your discomfort levels.

A comprehensive, well-rounded approach works best when treating fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue to improve ones symptoms. Examples of these “areas” in a sufferer’s life that need to be addressed or evaluated if symptoms are to improve are:

• Stress management
• Diet/nutrional status
• Current medications
• Treating painful “areas’
• Sleep habits
• Nutrient intake or elimination

These are just some of the areas that should be attended to. There are not many doctors who treat fibromyalgia who use this type of comprehensive method. But when you apply this type of approach; you will finally begin to make improvements and enjoy a better quality of life.

After learning how I treat fibromyalgia and fatigue, one of the next questions that sufferer’s ask me is; “With all these areas that need to be addressed, where do I begin?” I have found there is typically one starting place that is more beneficial that works best for most sufferer’s.

“This blog is about You! About Us! About doing the things that help make Our current situation better!

Fibromyalgia and CFS are serious conditions that can detrimentally force one into a life without meaning, without true joy!

To be diagnosed with one or both of these syndromes can be like being convicted of a crime that you didn’t commit!
It doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to live like that!

There is a solution! But you must take action! I did! You can too! Sound familiar? I hope so… Real People are doing it right now!

So what about the clinicians taking action? I meet minds with many of the most forward thinking, truly caring CFS and Fibromyalgia practioners. They have agreed to write informative real life articles regarding what works for us and share them on my blog!

This issue’s article is written by a wonderful clinician who is taking action treating Fibro/CFS patients today and they are getting better! I have known Dr. Mike Swierczynski for only a short time (6 months). He is now my friend.  I am thankful for that.

He is sharing spectacular direct from his own experience “areas that should be attended to as a cfs-fibromyalgia patient” in this issue’s article.

Dr. Mike is a proactive clinician who honestly cares about his patients.

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It’s about You! It’s about Us!

Your friend,
Cheryl Stadler