Ricky Buchanan
Introduction
If you need to know what Fibromyalgia (FMS, FM, Fibro) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS, but not CF) are, you’ll find basic information on the website belonging to my local CFS/ME society which contains some information sheets with the basic details about Fibro/CFS on it. Pages like that – with basic information – are certainly [...]
Foothold Glossary
CFS Stands for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Also known as CFIDS, ME, PVS, PVFS, and a bunch of less complimentaly things. For basic info, try my local CFS/ME society – it contains some great information sheets with the basic details on it. For some more advanced stuff, try my CFS/FMS pages. CFIDS Stands for Chronic Fatigue [...]
Migraine Friendly
Since late 2008 I have been following the program suggested by David Buchholz in his somewhat cheezily-named book “Heal Your Headache: The 1 2 3 Program”. Instead of pain which is nearly constant and frequently severe, my headache pain now only occurs perhaps a few hours a week and at a mild to moderate level.
Example Meal List
These are meals which I cook at home which obey all the migraine-friendly restrictions. For the Aussie-language-impaired, “Kraft cheese” is what the David Buchholz book and Wikipedia call “American cheese”. Basically it’s that processed plastic-ey crap which I assume is excluded from the “do not eat cheese” category because it contains no actual cheese whatsoever. [...]
Searching For Migraine-Friendly Recipes
Using the advanced search engine on the Meals for You website, it’s easy to search for recipes which are likely to be migraine-friendly with these steps: 1. Open up the Meals for You advanced search page. 2. On the web page’s section “1″, type or copy-and-paste this into the box marked “exclude”: onion parmesan cheddar [...]
Sweet Potato Bake
This recipe was originally from the Alzheimers Australia Brain Food website, and was adapted by me to be migraine friendly. Ingredients 3 Sweet Potatoes, peeled and quartered 2 large cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped. 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup melted butter 1/4 cup pine nuts 1/8 cup whole wheat or plain flour 2 [...]
Scales for Measuring Illness Severity
These scales attempt to measure overall severity Fibromyalgia/CFS, of pain, or of illness in general for a patient. Remember, these questionnaires are not standardised at all – that means you might score 50% on one test, 70% on another and 4 on yet another! The scales are not connected at all like, say, IQ tests [...]
Charrles Shepherd’s CFS Disability Scale
This is the ability scale from the book ‘Living With ME’ by Dr Charles Shepherd. It seems to be not terribly different from Jill Moss and David Bell‘s scales, although I don’t know if this is because it was derived somehow from them, or because there are only a limited number of ways to describe [...]
Personalising The Randall Chronic Pain Scale
This is my personal chronic pain scale, created from Lois’s “Randall Chronic Pain Scale.” Having a personal pain scale helps me communicate with health-care people and know that we’re both talking about the same thing when we refer to a certain level of pain.
Unknown Pain Scale
This scale was sent to me in email, without any attribution. If anybody knows where it came from I will cheerfully obtain the appropriate permissions to post it here and add an attribution as needed. It seems to be a very good scale though (as a person living with severe chronic pain, I can relate [...]
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