You know what's way more fun than trying to feel better about yourself by bringing another ME/CFS patient down? Telling someone how great they are, how much you appreciate them and why, how beautiful they are, how smart they are, how much you love them...recognizing someone for

You're addicted to your own emotions. Breaking up with your old self is harder than quitting smoking.

Nociplastic pain, also known as noninflammatory/nonneuropathic pain, involves abnormal nerve signal processing without identifiable tissue or nerve injury (e.g., fibromyalgia).

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Chronic pain doesn’t just stay in the body—it can rewire the brain. Over time, repeated pain signals make the nervous system more sensitive and reduce its ability to "turn down" pain. This is called central sensitization—and it helps explain why some people feel more pain even

I will never give up EVER!

I’m having a hard time explaining this to people. Just because I can do something like the dishes or cook, doesn’t mean it won’t wipe me out. For them it’s nothing, for me it could cost me days. How do you explain that kind of energy disparity to people who don’t get it?

“If someone healthy woke up with the level of pain I live with on a daily basis, they'd be straight into A & E… The fact that I'm not crying or screaming…is not because I'm brave… You have to learn to live with it…there's no other choice.” buff.ly/LcFIXIm #ChronicPain

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“Have you ever been stuck in bed for a few days from a really bad infection or surgery? You could barely get out of bed and simple tasks were exhausting. Now consider feeling that way every day, all day, for months then years.” buff.ly/zp4j7pr #chronicfatigue #chronicpain

Sometimes the hardest part of pain isn’t the pain itself, it’s convincing everyone else it’s real Your doctor Your friends Even yourself Because pain isn’t a story people want to hear It’s a war you fight silently, every damn day It makes you stronger than they’ll ever know...

Just brought on our CFO and CTO to our business landscape. This is just the beginning🔥

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Roosevelt is an example of the Fighting Spirit & Endurance of Chronic Pain & Illness. Theodore Roosevelt’s Ailments: Severe asthma as a child, a leg injury from a 1902 carriage accident turning to osteomyelitis, malaria from war and the 1914 Amazon expedition, inflammatory

For me, there is no Plan B... I'm in chronic pain all day everyday and probably will be for the rest of my life. Recailbrate will be amazing because nothing else matters to me than creating something that helps, it's only Plan A - Help someone and myself Follow us for updates

I was struggling in the heat at work and it was flaring my symptoms. My coworker said “If you stop thinking about your symptoms, they’ll go away.” I told him that he should try that next time he has an asthma attack. He responded “That’s different. Asthma is real.” If my

Normal, healthy ppl will never be able to grasp the fact that *doing things-anything at all* makes me feel like shit. Everytime. No matter what. I don't have control over it. I'm not choosing to be in bed. I'm purely reacting to a disease state. I'm no longer an autonomous being

The FDA has approved the first new fibromyalgia drug in over 15 years. Tonmya is more of a sleep aid than an analgesic. It reduces pain by improving the quality of restorative sleep. painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2025/8…

A whole other level of health and pain management is coming😉

Yup. It's time that understanding was reflected. We will not disapoint😉❤️