OS ways and Poor Health

An addition to my post on the The pain management plan book .
I forgot to mention there is a Relaxation CD in the back cover . there are 10 tracks . Track 2 and 3 allow you to choose a female of male voice for in a chair or on a bed exercises .
Three other Books

50 things you can do today to manage Fibromyalgia .Wendy Green .
Small easy read mine is 2012 edition.
Hints and tips etc .
Useful for Arthritic and other pain and mobility restricting conditions .


Living with Fibromyalgia Christine Craggs-Hinton .

A lot of information and self help . Mine now is the last edition 2014 .
I first came across her books in about 2000 . Like many she had a number of different conditions . She has written a fair number of books on Arthritis ( the first I bought ) CFS , Pain and other subjects .
Many of her books were amended and brought up to date in the last few years . I'd found them very useful but there was a point where she was setting targets too extreme for the average reader . Which left you either pushing too hard or feeling a failure for not pushing.
The amending and revising has removed a lot of things like that .
So I would say look at some of the new editions and see what you think . I've seen them on the shelves in wh smith and other shops so you can skim through . On the big A site you can generally browse through .
If LL doesn't own them already there is a more holistic theme in them .

Finally Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome . Dr Chris Jenner .My edition 2014.
You don't need to have Myofascial pain although many of us do .
It's a leading pain consultant at a LOndon Hospital and he knows his subject .
He's written books on other conditions too .
It's straightforward and helpful and a good guide whether new or not to pain and limitation as are the other books which are self help guides on arthritis etc .

Typos are starting . Back later off to check if the leak under the sink repair has worked .
polly

That's really interesting LL . Both my daughter and I have the same cartiledge inflammation . Both diagnosed with Fibro . Myself some years prior to her diagnosis . I've never been in a car crash but have suffered whiplash three times over the years . The last incident was the last time I drove . Small toddler alone running into the road from nowhere I couldn't stop in time although I was well below speed in a built up area . Only thing was to swerve left and hit a lamp post . Little boy was fine . A police officer got in the car with me after someone took me in for a hot drink . He begged me to drive forward a few yards , the car was pretty battered but I couldn't do it . Too shocked as I'd just dropped my two older children of at their grandparents and started wondering how things would have been if it had happened with them in the car .
I used to get pain and that heart attack feeling and never figured out the cause . I know I was exhausted by the mid seventies but stuff was happening in real life and pushing me to the limits . That could have been fibro although I didn't get that diagnosis until 2000 . I think many of us will never know the true path of these things .
Like yourself I had a long period of caring and supporting my late husband , then the toxic second husband pushed me beyond my limits . Youngest having complex needs . Who knows ?
I think all any of us can do is try to help ourselves in ways that seem to help . Seek decent medical advise and keep on keeping on .
I hope you will sleep well tonight . I spent too much time on my knees with my head in the sink cupboard and am like you feeling the need for rest . the massage will hopefully ease those knots .
Bed for me
pollyx