Fibromyalgia

My mum has suffered with this for approx 6 years. Not many pain killers touch it. Sometimes her muscles go into spasm which make her drop things etc.
She finds it very annoying at times cos as you say not many people understand that the aches and pains are always there.
How long have you had the illness?

Is fibromyalgia just a vitamin D deficiency
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Two More Diseases That Could Be Treated With Vitamin C

Although zipvit are reasonable for vitamin c their vitamin d is the wrong sort. The best sort is Vitamin d3 which is the same as your skin makes on direct exposure to sunshine. Until September you shouldn't need to buy vitamin d3 cholecalciferol as you can make around 12,000iu in half an hours sun bathing providing you expose as much skin as possible. DON'T ever get SUNBURNT as occassional sunbathing which results in burning is linked to melanoma. REGULAR SUNBATHING without burning is linked to fewer breast cancers fewer colon cancers fewer prostate cancers and I'll spare you the rest of cancers but won't let you forget the MS connection. The more your child gets outside the lower will be their risk of getting MS in later life. If you have MS the higher your vitamin d3 level the fewer bad patches will occur.

I haven't made a mistake putting links to both vitamin d and vitamin c. Fibromyalgia is thought to be an autoimmune condition and therefore vitamins which support the immune function and are anti-inflammatory and promote collagen formation will help. Bill Sardi links to Ascorbate which is a book about vitamin c you can download for around £3ish. It's a bit heavy going, but it is very interesting and it explains why the research findings for HIGH DOSE vitamin c present a somewhat confused picture. The authors others book about vitamin c explains why the current recommendations for Vitamin c are fundamentally flawed. Again detailed reading for the enthusiast but still interesting.
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Making sure you understand how vitamin c depletes once you've swallowed it also enables you to use it in a moneysaving most effective manner. The Hickey/Roberts books explain how the half life (time it takes your body to lose half the supplement just taken) is only half and hour. This means taking it in one dose means you lose most of it. You therefore need to either use slow release vitamin c or stage your intake through the day. I'm now taking 500mg every 4 hrs at 7am 11am 3pm 7pm and 11pm. that way my blood level of ascorbate shouild stay at a higher level than can be achieved by taking a large dose in the morning, or even 2 larger doses morning and night.
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see www.thirdage.com they have an article about it

i have it,have been very bad for the past few yrs.constant pain, nothing touches it.better in warmer weather.very bad during periods.i'm on crutches now.
its quite depressing as you look well and gp's do'nt really understand it.
If you are in a lot of pain try a pain management clinic via gp referral.?The expert patient programme can also help a lot with support.

http://www.ukfibromyalgia.com/forums/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia

http://www.coventrypainclinic.org.uk/musclepain-fibromyalgiasyndrome.htm

http://www.fibromyalgia-associationuk.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=44

good luck!!!.It is liveable with but takes a lot of effort from you,friends and family.

I was diagnosed with FMS last year, I thought I was destined to sit on my sofa forever, I managed to get better, not 100% but managing the pain and working again with an employer who appreciates that some days I get more done than others. I lost 1 and a half stone which has helped, still got a few lb to go to get to my goal weight, I know I am lucky as some people have a much worse time than I have.