Our favorite recipe to reduce Fibromyalgia pain is:
Epsom Salts (1 cup)
Peppermint Oil (5 drops)
Eucalyptus Oil (5 drops)
Mix these together and soak in the bath.
You'll be amazed at the difference!
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I have one question though...how much water in the bath...a full bath...a half bath or what?
Thanks, Tammy
Hi Tammy,
From what I have read other places, you'll want to do a full tub, so that the water is over your legs at least. Epsom salts are a great thing!! And the oils are amazing at how much they help!
Another addition, to help with energy in the mornings, is a hot cup of water, 2 tsps honey and a dash of cinnamon. I have been amazed at how good this is and how much it has helped me get my days started. Don't drink it after about 3 p.m. though if you want to go to bed at a reasonable time!! My next experiment will be with honey and lemon which is supposed to help sleep!
Another option is a massage oil.
1 ounce carrier oil (baby oil, unscented lotion, olive oil, etc)
5 drops peppermint
5 drops lavendar
3 drops chamomile
2 drops clove
I love this for massages!
Take care everyone!
~~Aimee
Aimee Shannon is a licensed social worker who has fibromyalgia along with a collection of other illnesses. Aimee is passionate that those dealing with chronic illnesses need education and support to best manage their illnesses. Along with writing for Lumigrate, Aimee can be found leading a support group on Facebook, as well as two in person support groups in the Dayton Ohio region. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fibromyalgia-Support-Groups-by-Aimee/94975642116 [6]You guys are the best... I really like to see the interaction. Aimee... what do you suppose is in the water, honey, cinnamon that makes it so you're stimulated if taking it... or is it that something happens metabolically from it? That's really intersting! Thanks for your input! And I LOVE that essential oils are being discussed.... and used! ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [8] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
I don't know what it is! A friend on another fibro board was using it and noticing it helped, so she suggested it to the rest of us. I was frankly surprised that it helped as well as it did for me. I'm a VERY slow start in the morning, if I make it up in the morning at all!
~~Aimee
Aimee Shannon is a licensed social worker who has fibromyalgia along with a collection of other illnesses. Aimee is passionate that those dealing with chronic illnesses need education and support to best manage their illnesses. Along with writing for Lumigrate, Aimee can be found leading a support group on Facebook, as well as two in person support groups in the Dayton Ohio region. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fibromyalgia-Support-Groups-by-Aimee/94975642116 [6]That's as good an answer as any ... Thanks, Aimee... Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [8] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Hi everyone, I have been using Dead Sea Salts in the bath as I have been unable to get hold of Epsom Salts. I think they are really effective too. Great Website :) Hugs Claire.
Well, I guess I need to try that remedy. I already do the epsom salts baths frequently. I especially like to to a whirlpool bath with epsom salts just before bed to relax my muscles enough to allow me to go to sleep. Sometimes when I wake in the middle of the night hurting or with muscle tightness I go for the epsom salts bath. It REALLY helps.
I was not happy that I could no longer find a large bag of epsom salts in Walmart, but I found two large bags of epsom salts in a package at Sams Club, so I was happy.
Aimee, thanks for the pick-me-up drink recipe. It sounds like something I would enjoy. I recently discovered a big mug of hot lemonaide first thing in the morning will help will irregularity whenever it becomes bothersome.
Thanks for posting all this info everyone. Keep it up. I need to learn something everyday. My mother always told us "The day is not wasted if you learn something."
Alice Franklin was raised on a sandy beach in Point Clear, AL and lived along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama in her youth, graduating from Fairhope High School on Mobile Bay. Prior to becoming disabled due to severe spine problems, she worked her way into management and purchasing positions in industrial manufacturing and art industries. She worked her way into Lumigrate unknowingly by impressively writing at Lent 2010 about utilizing her religious and spiritual beliefs with chronic pain/disease management (she has had fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain for decades); it turns out she holds the priesthood office of elder in her church and became active again in this office in May 2010 and has been pastor or copastor in previous churches. We are so very proud to have her words and thoughts gracing our 'pages' of this website and look forward to what the future holds for her.
Alice -- by getting off the subject you actually tell us where to go! In a good way! Avocation (or 'hobbies and leisure as it is called also') is an area that has to do with 'integrative medicine' and provides a garden for people to come to and talk about things that are part of our 'paradigm'. Healthy plants make for cleaner air! I'm going to give you some credit for what you just wrote here on facebook ... thanks, as always, for all you do when you come into facebook or the website here and contribute. It gives me such happiness to know that YOU are benefitting from it ... it's all about YOU at Lumigrate.com ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [8] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
For the past week I have been taking a warm bath in herbal salts. Last night it was
lavender.. I am fortune to have a garden tub with jets. Towards the end of my bath I turn them on and and let the jets massage my calves.. I found I am sleeping a little better. Tonight I will follow the recipe that was posted..I'll let you know..Thanks
I have written once, but don't know where it is!
I have sooo many food sensitivities, and after cutting all 72 of them out for 2 yrs was tested and had developed a few more.
SO I am now thinking its Leaky Gut, (did have colonoscopy and it was inflammed.) and that I am not benefitting from all the good food and supplements, so now I'm REALLY concentrating on healing my gut.
Found a good site that takes you steps on how to heal it. Psyllium (Colon cleanse), activated charcoal sometimes, MSM,slippery elm and marshmallow root (YUCK) and caprillic acid, oh and digestive enzyme and probiotics.
Have just started, so we'll see. Anyone else like me? and how have you healed your colon.
I have got something from Walmart called Batherapy. I get the sports one which is using the ingredients you have listed. There are different ones of the Batherapy. I get in a hot tub of water and pour some of it in and sit and relax. It does help.