Living With Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Sharing Our Experiences

When doctors and researchers routinely scratch their heads over aspects of fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS), what hope do we have of improving our lives?

That's not a rhetorical question. What's the answer? Our best hope lies in EACH OTHER -- the more we share our experiences, the more we learn about our illnesses and how to live better with them.

You have 3 new opportunities to help other people and to learn from them as well, through the Readers Respond opportunities now attached to these articles:

• Coping With FMS & ME/CFS
• Developing Better Coping Skills
• Exercising With FMS & ME/CFS
• Work Accommodations That Help

Read the articles, then click on the link at the bottom to share your experiences and read comments left by other people.

Here are more Readers Respond articles that include some great tips:

• Fibromyalgia & Clothing Pain
• Little Things That Can Help
• Types of Fibromyalgia Pain

I've learned a lot from these responses, and I hope you will as well!