Were you a “Type A” Personality before Fibromyalgia?
Monday July 3, 2006
I’ve heard quite a few people, including myself, say they were Type A personalities before being slowed down by fibromyalgia. Since stress seems to be a natural by-product of being Type A and because stress will make your FM symptoms worse, it is important to learn how to reduce stress in your life.
About’s Stress Management Guide, Elizabeth Scott, has developed an excellent quiz to help you find out if you are (or were) a Type A personality. If you want to find out how far you’ve come in your efforts to reduce stress, take the quiz twice –– the first time answering as you would have before FM, the second answering as you are now. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much fibromyalgia has changed me –– for the better! Take the quiz now.
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I would like to share the following with you: I’ve had FM for over 4 years. Months ago I would get home from work and land in my recliner w/o any energy and exhausted. On the weekends, I would dread having to go out to do my errands such as banking, groceries, etc. Well, a couple of months ago a co-worker introduced me to a system called Isagenix. Although at first I was very skeptical, I decided to try the the product when she mentioned other people w/my condition were doing good with it. Well, I no longer land on my recliner, and do everything I need to do and am non-stop during the weekends. I have gotten my energy back and although I am not totally pain-free, I have gotten my life back. I am no longer taking my pain medications (Ultram, Vicodin) and all my family is just amazed at the change this has caused. And I am enjoying my grandchildren so much more. Now they say they have a super grandma.
If Isagenix or anything else “worked”, insurance companies would be at the doors of DI recipients with 45 gallon drums of the stuff the next day.
Type A Personality — there has been a lot of interest and at least one book written about a “fibro-personality”. Why aren’t all Type As suffering the same result?
Before that it was sleep deprivation - help people sleep. and watch symptoms evaporate.
Didn’t work - won’t wwork - can’t work. This is “magical” or “wishful thinking” - or worse - “junk science”.
The theory is always - reverse the stimulus - watch the response disappear. Problem, correlation is not causation. Reversing a correlation achieves nothing.
To see this “stuff” seriously reported and considered in this day and age - in light of what we no know scientifically about this condition is even more disappointing than the nonsense itself.