Category: Fibromyalgia Syndrome
This document is called a ‘decision aid’. It is for people aged 16 years and over with persistent primary pain. It can help you think about what options you might like to consider to help you live well with pain.
There may be one person, or several different people working together, to help you live well with your persistent primary pain. For example, your GP, pharmacist, other healthcare professionals, social care practitioners, social prescribers and wellbeing coaches. We’ll call them your health and care team.
You do not have to use all of this document – you can just use the sections which you think might be helpful to you.
You can complete this decision aid in your own time, and you do not need to complete it all in one go.
You might like to bring this document to your appointments and go through it with your health and care team. Having a good relationship with them, where you feel able to talk openly, is important in supporting you to manage your symptoms and will help you make the right decisions for you.
Download a pdf or visit the British pain society web page for the document
It is very important for people with chronic pain to maintain a healthy, balanced diet. There are several reasons, such as feeding the nervous system with the nutrients it requires to boost its capacity to dampen pain and reducing the foodstuffs which can increase pain.
To learn more about how your diet influences your pain and what foods you should be eating, please click the link.
The food we eat is important not only for our overall health but for our experience of pain. The presence of a variety of fruits, vegetables, pulses, nuts, herbs and pulses in our diet increase the nutrients our body needs for growth and repair. These vitamins and minerals can reduce inflammation and boost our immune system which can help to reduce chronic pain. Fibre rich foods boost the gut microbiome which can not only influence pain levels but prevent the constipation which so often accompanies pain killer medication use.
Click the link to see more details on what foods to eat and how to introduce them to your diet.
In addition, this webinar is part of a free series related to the 2020 Global Year for the Prevention of Pain. There are further videos accessible from this one. Please click the link to view.
Dr Deepak Ravindran, Alicja Wypasek and “Mr Cookfulness” Ian Taverner discuss in their videos how and why nutrition is important for people living with persistent pain and whether the food we eat can affect our pain.
Working Well East Midlands is a dedicated employment service offering personalised one-to-one support to people with disability, physical or mental health issues, to stay in or get back to work.
This website is useful for resources and accessing an extensive range of podcasts in Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s series ‘Feel better. Live More’ to help guide you making choices to live your healthiest life.
