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Season 2 Episode 43  Mind Your Hormones: Perimenopause, Menopause, and Fibromyalgia - Here's What You Need to Know  My practice in Louisville KY -    https://www.wholehealthrheum.com/ Please email me at [email protected] if you have any comments, feedback or if you have questions. I would love to hear from you.  www.rheumcoach.com - my podcast website If you are not part of my newsletter, please sign up; the link to sign up is on my website https://www.rheumcoach.com/ www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook.com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Season 2 Episode 42 -What is your stress load? Take your ACE survey to calculate your ACE score:  https://stopabusecampaign.org/take-your-ace-test/ Full transcript to this episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/13274871 References and resources: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/ https://acestoohigh.com/aces-101/ https://stopabusecampaign.org/ Get Season 1 podcast guide:  https://www.rheumcoach.com/season1 Use this guide to track your progress as you listen to the episodes. It has a list of all episodes included in 1st season, with checkboxes to mark off your completion. It also has a fill-in-the-blank guide to episodes to engage you as you listen - it will keep you focused so you will retain more information.  RheumMate membership provides trauma-informed coaching and support for people with autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia Wait list   https://www.rheumcoach.com/rheummate2022 Please email me at [email protected] if you have any comments, feedback or if you have questions. I would love to hear from you.  www.rheumcoach.com - my website If you are not part of my newsletter, please sign up; the link to sign up is on my website https://www.rheumcoach.com/ www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook.com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Season 2 Episode 41 - How your childhood may have affected your health Take your ACE survey to calculate your ACE score:  https://stopabusecampaign.org/take-your-ace-test/ Full transcript to this episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/12858246 References and resources: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/ https://acestoohigh.com/aces-101/ https://stopabusecampaign.org/ Get Season 1 podcast guide:  https://www.rheumcoach.com/season1 Use this guide to track your progress as you listen to the episodes. It has a list of all episodes included in 1st season, with checkboxes to mark off your completion. It also has a fill-in-the-blank guide to episodes to engage you as you listen - it will keep you focused so you will retain more information.  RheumMate membership provides trauma-informed coaching and support for people with autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia Wait list   https://www.rheumcoach.com/rheummate2022 Please email me at [email protected] if you have any comments, feedback or if you have questions. I would love to hear from you.  www.rheumcoach.com - my website If you are not part of my newsletter, please sign up; the link to sign up is on my website https://www.rheumcoach.com/ www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook.com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 40 - Season 2 Introduction -Why do we need to talk about trauma? Get Season 1 podcast guide:  https://www.rheumcoach.com/season1 Use this guide to track your progress as you listen to the episodes. It has a list of all episodes included in 1st season, with checkboxes to mark off your completion. It also has a fill-in-the-blank guide to episodes to engage you as you listen - it will keep you focused so you will retain more information.  RheumMate membership provides trauma-informed coaching and support for people with autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia Wait list   https://www.rheumcoach.com/rheummate2022 Please email me at [email protected] if you try it or if you have questions. I would love to hear from you.  www.rheumcoach.com - my website If you are not part of my newsletter, please sign up; the link to sign up is on my website https://www.rheumcoach.com/ www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook.com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 11 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Fear & Pain Cycle Please Rate , Review, & Follow this podcast. This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.  In fibromyalgia, the normal pre-wired by nature to feel fear or danger signals is dysregulated. The nervous system is more sensitive and gets activated more frequently into a danger state, the flight or fight response; it experiences a fear whole lot more often and longer than someone who has a more balanced nervous system.  Additionally, how the brain reacts reinforces the experiences as dangerous or safe.  So our brain is pre-wired to view pain as dangerous, as a surviving mechanism. When we react to pain with fear, it reinforces that experience as dangerous.  The more you fear pain, the more it puts the brain in a state of danger or high alert, activates the nervous system to fight or flight, the more fear you get. The more fear we have, the more pain we feel. The more pain you have, the more fear you feel, which leads to more pain. The brain is stuck in the fear–pain cycle or loop. You can see the full transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/10031959 www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 10 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - - Fibro Pain and Neuroplasticity Please Rate , Review, & Follow this podcast. This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.  Neuroplasticity is a general umbrella term that refers to the brain's ability to modify, change, and adapt in structure and function throughout life and response to experience. The brain cells and neurons can make the circuit and network changes resulting from learning a new ability, environmental influences, practice, physical and psychological stress. Brain cells are "neurons that fire together, wire together." When your brain experiences pain over and over, the neurons responsible for dealing with pain are wired together. The more pain you have, the better these neurons, brain cells fire together. If we do something repeatedly, the brain develops a routine, a route for the neurons to do their job automatically or easier.  Your brain can unintentionally learn how to deal with pain incorrectly. The pain gets stuck, like a bad habit. This pain type, the learned pain, we call neuroplastic pain. Neuro means brain, plastic means adapted, modified, developed. So neuroplastic pain is pain produced when the brain changes to reinforce this pain.   This episode explains that fibromyalgia pain is neuroplastic pain,  how it develops, and why.  You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/episodes/9977704 www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 9 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 3 Please Rate , Review, & Follow this podcast. This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.  We continue the discussion about how pain and stress are related. You need to understand that thoughts and beliefs influence the degree of pain, severity, and coping with pain.  Automatic thoughts – frequently occurring, situation-driven, thoughts often happen without our input or consciousness. They are automatic, without awareness, but influence the ultimate selection of the coping strategy.  We have beliefs about pain – the nature of pain, the cause of pain, and appropriate treatment, these beliefs influence distress and disability.  We also have acquired beliefs about our control of pain. We have many beliefs about our ability to cope with it, our ability to control pain, how effective we are in our own self-management of pain, and self-efficacy.  Our brain uses automatic thoughts and beliefs to cope with pain stressors and reduce the stress effect. Based on these thoughts and beliefs, we may have good and maladaptive coping behaviors.  Negative automatic thoughts generally worsen our mood, negatively affect our actions and increase the pain and other symptoms.  You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9953813 www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 8 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 2 Please Rate , Review, & Follow this podcast. This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. We continue the discussion about how pain and stress are related. Our brain appraises every situation we encounter through primary and secondary appraisals. Every situation, experience, circumstance, and body sensation, including pain, is judged by our brain as harmless or stressful; it is instantaneous and automatic.  Harmless experience does not activate the stress response of the nervous system.  Stressful situations will further be accessed as a threat, loss, or challenge.  The most common way the brain in patients with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions appraises stress or pain as a threat. There is increased focus on pain, diminishing attention, worsening memory and concentration, commonly known as fibro fog.  The loss is often associated more with consequences of chronic pain – loss of function, income, relationships. However, the goal is to learn how to see pain as more of a challenge, something you can cope with that does not overwhelm the body and mind.    You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9893923 www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/rheumcoach/ Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 7 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 1 This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. We start the discussion about how pain and stress are related. Many of my patients tell me that they experience fibro flares when they are under a lot of stress. Stress is a situation that is difficult to cope with, and that creates a reaction in the body – physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral. Different people cope with circumstances differently and have different reactions to a similar situation. Pain is a major ongoing stressor. It produces every type of stress response – biological/physical, emotional, behavioral, and mental changes. You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/episodes/9852821-fibromyalgia-pain-science-education-stress-part-1 www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro  Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition. Please Rate, Review, & Follow this podcast.

Episode 6 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education: what do toddlers, a magic trick, and fibro pain have in common? This episode starts the pain education series. In this episode, I am talking about the foundation of pain science. Most of us think of pain as directly linked to body damage or tissue injury. I will explain how pain does not necessarily mean damage. Anticipation of pain, stress, emotions, memories, and many other triggers can trigger the sensation of pain. This is an important concept that must be understood if you want to find a solution for pain improvement. You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9751127-fibromyalgia-pain-science-education-what-do-toddlers-a-magic-trick-and-fibro-pain-have-in-common www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro  Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition. Please Rate, Review, & Follow this podcast.

Episode 5 - Fibromyalgia treatment - Do you care for yourself? 6 types of self-care This episode focuses on self-care. It is not as simple as eating well and exercising. Learn more about why self-care is essential and what you need to do to embrace it. www.rheumcoach.com    - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy  of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach    - lots more information about fibro

Episode 4 Fibromyalgia treatment - what can you do right now?

Episode 3 Fibromyalgia treatment overview.  Fibro symptoms are due to the brain processing problem. To help the brain to learn how to process pain in correct way you to rewire the brain using three pillars or columns of fibro treatment: education, self care and pain control. Although medications may help, fibro treatment is not that simple.  You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9621860-how-is-fibromyalgia-diagnosed www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro

Episode 2 - How is fibromyalgia diagnosed?  Fibromyalgia is a real, painful condition. The latest guidelines for diagnosis were published in 2016 and you can find them below. To be diagnosed with fibro, you need to have at least three months of widespread pain or pain all over with other fibro symptoms. Other conditions that may mimic fibro need to be excluded, but you can have fibromyalgia  along with other painful conditions, like degenerative disease, chronic back pain, and autoimmune conditions, as well as sleep Apnea and depression. Is it not a diagnosis of exclusion. Accepting the Fibro is real is necessary for your successful treatment. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY 2016 Revisions to the 2010/2011 Fibromyalgia Diagnostic Criteria https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/2016-revisions-to-the-20102011-fibromyalgia-diagnostic-criteria/ You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9621860-how-is-fibromyalgia-diagnosed www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro  Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.

Episode 1 - What is fibromyalgia? The first episode of the podcast covers the fibro basics - what is fibromyalgia, who is at risk of developing fibromyalgia, and the symptoms. You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9580631-what-is-fibromyalgia www.rheumcoach.com - my website www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your free copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro  Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.