Broadcaster says taking a break from the show, due to fibromyalgia, made her reassess career
“Having been forced to take some months away from my favourite job because of health problems, I’m happy to say I’m now well on the way to feeling much better.
“But that enforced absence from the show has altered my perspective on what I should do next and so I’ve decided it’s time to pursue new challenges.
My sister-in-law has FM, and the first time she was off work when she first got FM, she was able to return to work after taking a year off. She was reinjured a second time at work, and was forced by her disability insurance to do a return to work programme which caused her a permanent back injury and she can now no longer work. Her GP tried telling disability that if they allowed her to heal from her work injury that in all likelihood she would be able to return to work within a year. They wouldn't listen.Perhaps she/they only ment trying to get enough symptom management in place, to see if continued work is possible for her case of FM?![]()
Fibromyalgia is more treatable than CFS, so maybe that's what they mean
Interestingly, some UK clinics give the same stats for ME patients. This is based on clinical anecdote only, however.If by treatable you mean there are approved drugs that do some a little improvement, then sure, it's more treatable.
The prognosis for fibromyaglia patients (by Dr. Robert Bennett, of U-Oregon and who had thousands of fibro patients and who discovered the growth hormone deficiency due to sleep problems in fibro pts, he said: 1/3 get worse, 1/3 stay the same, 1/3 get better.
Yeah. Reminds me that quite a lot of patients say they’re “recovering” when generally one doesn’t know if one is going to fully recover (or something close to it). Activity ceilings can kick in at lots of different levels."on the way to feeling much better" is spin, meaning she is not yet better, but hopes to get better...![]()
I assume that any kind of trauma - dramatic and severe, or milder but frequently repeated - e.g. being raped or tortured or suffering domestic abuse, or suffering from chronic pain or being bullied at home, school or work will raise cortisol. If the trauma is not resolved or can't be stopped then cortisol might stay high for years. In some people cortisol might not stay high, it might eventually end up very low. Cortisol is relevant to lots of biochemical processes in the body, so if the level becomes much higher or lower than normal then it seems likely to me that illness and pain will ensue.
And yet fibromyalgia can arise de novo, in calm waters, as it did for me,
That's the magic of making something as generic and common as "life events" as a cause for something: it can literally be anything. Got a promotion? Too much added stress and responsibilities. Passed over for a promotion? Dissembles into a puddle of self-doubt and excessive worry. Heads they win. Tails they win. Sideways they win. Perpetually spinning they win. Never tossed they win. They win every time because anything can be considered a "life event", even the absence of any event: you're probably just bored and/or depressed.And yet fibromyalgia can arise de novo, in calm waters, as it did for me, except perhaps that I was having lower estrogen levels at the age of 46 and having signs of menopause. But at the time, I was doing exceptionally well life-wise, and mentally. I'd say that I had never felt more stress-free.
Can you think of anything published that would show this clearly though? i.e. a paper on rape survivors that shows their cortisol levels clearly correlate to pain.