Pain Relief for Joint Disorders

From muscle soreness, to depression, to fatigue, fibromyalgia can be overwhelming. It's hard to know where to start when it comes to managing your symptoms. Often, a good starting point is to take measures to address the fatigue you're experiencing. If you can make yourself feel less fatigued, then you'll be more likely to get moving – and this in turn will help with the stiffness and depression symptoms. So how do you fight the fatigue associated with fibromyalgia when all you really feel like doing is lying in bed? Here are a few tips.

See your chiropractor.

One simple step you can take is to go see a chiropractor. After this, all of the work associated with this treatment is left to your chiropractor. Often, fatigue symptoms can be attributed, at least in part, to misalignments of the spine that place pressure on certain nerves. These misalignments can be made worse by sore, stiff muscles that pull your vertebrae out of line. By adjusting your back, a chiropractor can alleviate pressure on your nerves, which will help you feel more energetic. Consider seeing a chiropractor from a practice like Bakke Chiropractic Clinic SC.

Cut out caffeine.

Are you turning to coffee, soda or energy drinks when the dreary fatigue sets in? This might seem like a good short-term solution, but in the long run, it's doing you more harm than good. Once the caffeine wears off, you'll just feel more fatigued. And caffeine can interfere with your sleep cycles, which are already affected negatively by your fibromyalgia. Take steps to reduce your caffeine intake. Replace coffee with decaf, reach for caffeine-free soda, and snack on healthy foods like fruit and nuts to keep yourself going throughout the day. You may feel worse at first, but once your body gets over the caffeine addiction, you'll sleep better and your fatigue symptoms should become less severe.

Use energizing essential oils.

It's amazing how certain scents can impact your mood. There are a number of essential oils with scents that can energize you almost immediately. These include peppermint, pine, eucalyptus, and basil essential oils. Purchase one or more of these oils, and keep them on hand to inhale whenever you're feeling overly fatigued. You can just put a drop on a cloth and inhale the scent slowly, or you can add the essential oil to a water vaporizer and enjoy the scent spreading throughout the room.

If you can get a handle on the fatigue associated with fibromyalgia, your other symptoms will begin to improve, too.