Fibromyalgia Diet and Other Useful Aids

 

After finally getting the fibromyalgia diagnosis you really didn’t want, but now at least you know what the problem is, there are a lot of things you are going to want to learn about how to care for yourself and your condition.  Details like medications, exercise plans, and a fibromyalgia diet are going to have to be reviewed.  It’s important to be patient in the days and months following your diagnosis.  The treatments of fibromyalgia are a trial and error practice.  What works for one patient may not work for another one.  As difficult as it is, keep your eye on the prize and in the meantime take a proactive stand with your own health.

• Watch your activity levels

• Get plenty of sleep

• Try following a fibromyalgia diet

Taking on fibromyalgia exercise is a bit like playing Russian roulette.  On one hand if you don’t get enough exercise, you are likely to have problems sleeping and the pain in your joints and muscles is likely to be worse.  If you get too much exercise, the same thing can occur for the opposite reason. Like your medications and therapies, it might take some time to find the right level of activity for you and it may change depending on what kind of day you are having. 

As you well know chronic fatigue is very often a very real problem for people with fibromyalgia.  Experts aren’t sure if sleep disorders cause or are caused by fibromyalgia, but the fact remains that people with issues like sleep apnea are at a higher risk for this painful disease.  Most doctors don’t like to prescribe sleep aids unless they have to due to a risk of addiction.  Once the patient stops taking the medication, they often have an even harder time getting good rest, so they really aren’t very helpful anyway.  Getting exercise and making your environment conducive to rest are good strategies.

The official verdict is still out about the right fibromyalgia diet to follow. It can be said that many fibromyalgia patients have found that cutting alcohol, carbonated beverages, and caffeine in all its forms from coffee to chocolate has helped with their symptoms.  A healthy diet has also been shown to help with the common fibromyalgia fatigue problem.  Either way you look at it, eating well is definitely part of taking care of yourself with fibromyalgia.