• Employment Issues and Generating Income
- Patients share their successful coping strategies when facing challenging employment issues - more than 4,400 Members responded to this survey
- Members talk about how they generate extra income from home
- Don Uslan, M.A., M.B.A., L.M.H.C., offers pointers to maintain employment
- Links to online resources for job and work accommodations and strategies
• Simple Everyday Attention Disrupted in FM
- Bruce D. Dick, Ph.D., offers reasons why fibromyalgia patients have a hard time retaining or managing information
- Causes and treatments of cognitive dysfunction
• Role of Slow Wave Sleep in Memory and Learning
- Matthew P. Walker, Ph.D., explains what happens to our body and mind during the deepest parts of sleep – and what is going on in the brain?
- How sleep, or a lack of it, effects learning
- James K. Walsh, Ph.D., discusses medications that enhance slow wave sleep and a new kind of medication to treat insomnia
• Ken's Corner: Fibro Ergonomics
- Physical Therapist Ken Lamm, P.T., of Tucson, AZ, offers ergonomic advice to avoid sprains, strains, and injury while doing routine activities and household chores
• Muscles Cramping Your Style?
- Hong-You Ge, M.D., Ph.D., explains the science of muscle cramps and how to avoid them before they happen
- Reducing both latent and active trigger points through dry needling and other treatment approaches
• Telling Your Brain About Muscle Pain
- Alan Light, Ph.D., talks about what is going on in your muscles that make them feel tired and achy. The discussion surrounds key receptors and sensors that transmit signals to your brain that may lead to your painful symptoms
• Amplified Senses and Physical Symptoms
- Michael Geisser, Ph.D., and Dan Clauw, M.D., discuss sensory amplification and medications that inhibit the pain. If your senses seemed to be turned up on high, it may explain some very painful or unusual symptoms that you may not think are associated with your fibromyalgia
• Q&A with the Experts
- If you have ruled out infection and menopause (or you are a man), Avram R. Gold, M.D., talks about why night sweats occur and a possible therapy
- Hong-You Ge, M.D., Ph.D., addresses the cause and treatments of those irritating muscle twitches
• Then and Now: Looking Back at Living with FM
- Three women who have had FM more than 20 years reflect on what they've learned and how far they’ve come
- Accepting an Unbelievable Diagnosis
- I Can Say, 'I Survived'
- I Offered to Write a Newsletter by FM Network Founder Kristin Thorson

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