Posted on 10/08/2018 3:32:01 AM PDT by Loyalist
Lena Dunham has revealed she suffers from fibromyalgia.
The star, 32, opened up about living with the disorder in a candid Instagram post she shared with her followers on Saturday, revealing her symptoms were 'activated' a day after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Fibromyalgia is a disorder associated with widespread pain throughout the body, and impacts mostly women.
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'On the day after Dr. Ford's testimony I awoke with a start at 3am. It felt like every cell in my neck was singing. My ankles and wrists were weak and my fingers didn't do their assigned job.
'Yesterday I felt like I was suspended in gel, and when I meditated a line of pain zipped from my neck to my foot. I'm sorry if I don't answer your text or email, or if I can't show up the way someone else would. I appear to be totally able bodied but it's complex, and I am just trying to do everything required to maintain a life of joy and service.
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I think she would prefer a gofundme account.
She needs to get another bad tattoo. That will make her feel better.
Dunham: an actual sex predator.
In the old days they called it being fat.
Female migraine patients far out number males. That’s a fact.
it’s not having migraines that’s the issue. It’s having all three.
That’s almost exclusively the domain of middle aged women.
There is not a micro meter made that can measure how little I care.
Oh, really. Are you a doctor or did you just read that somewhere?
KARMA, BABY
Too bad it isn’t stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
The nerves of the body - beyond the brain and the spinal cord (central nervous system) are called the peripheal nervous sytem and it is composed of two separate systems of nerves and nerve lines - the somatic and the autonomic nervous systems.
The perception of pain comes from the sympathetic nervous sytem (part of the autonomic nervous system). While pain is normally associated with “damage” there are known pain syndromes that register pain in an area of the body where no damage is identified by any clinical means available.
Long ago medical science taught such pains were not real but merely imagined by those reporting them.
Detailed tests with electrodes have proven the pain signals are not phantom, but cannot and have not shown the cause in many pain syndromes.
I was once thought to have reflex sympathetic dystrophy (a pain syndrom that can show up after an injury and mysteriously continue long after all the injury and damage has been corrected). I studied the whole subject for a year.
As it turned out, more extensive MIR tests finally showed the phsyical cause in my case - a speck of spinal cord that is not and never will again be working spinal cord tissue.
However, such a finding is not what folks with fibromyalgia and other similar pain syndromes are finding. The pain is real, even though modern medicine does not understand fully why it is there.
There is a German outfit that is producing very positive results for some folks with some of these pain syndromes. While the relief has been reported to be great, the experience of the treatment is not. It involves a chemically induced & maintained coma, for many days. The process is said to induce a “reboot” of the nervous system, after which the patient no longer has the previous chronic pain that plagued them. The drawback is the side effects of the drugs that create the comna, and those side effects are the horrifying hallucinations that occur during the coma. One man described it as like hell and no way out.
Glad some final MIRs in my case showed any such treatment would never change my damaged spinal cord, and “fix” the pain issues.
karma is a b*tch.. and so is she.
Cray cray beotch disease.
LOL. Yeah I’m an ER physician with 30 years experience.
Can you give me your name so that I can avoid you?
Nope. Just gonna have the trust your luck.
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