Diana’s fun fibro blog! – Exercising with fibro! Yes, come on now! Wiggle your butt with Diana!
* Please Note: I don’t sell anything. There’s no commercial anything in my video blogs. I’m just a Mom with a Mac who video blogs. * Hello. I’m Diana. I’m 38. I have fibromyalgia. I’m a stay-at-home Mom. A few years ago, when I was diagnosed with fibro, I was given a good piece of advice: “Exercise and you will feel better FASTER.” I resisted. How could I possibly exercise when it hurt just to move? “I’ll exercise WHEN I feel better,” I stubbornly told the rheumatologist, thinking she was nuts. “No,” she said, “you need to exercise so that you WILL feel better.” Oh. Dang it all if she wasn’t right. This is a 9-minute story of fibromyalgia and exercise, with a bit of humor and gratuitous sound effects. Enjoy! If you like it, let me know so it will inspire me to make more. (This one took about 20 hours of editing time to make, but that’s probably because I’m still learning my way around a Mac.)- Diana
April 4th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
thanks for the video, i was feeling a bit sorry for myself thisevening all sore and tired
but you made me laugh 
espeally about tortureing someone with fm, the stair master really would be torture 
ceep posting
April 4th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
my speakers are on HIGH and no hear you… why?
April 4th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Hi Eyes- I think it may be a browser issue. Try it on another browser, if you have more than one installed on your machine. I create my videos on a Mac, using iMovie 06 or iMovie 08, and test them using either Firefox (Mozilla) or Safari. I just tested this one with Safari and I am getting sound. So, I’m betting it’s a browser issue. I have a new computer now, with all of Apple’s latest software, so hopefully they’ve fixed any and all browser bugs. Hopefully…Apologies for any problems.-D.
April 4th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
ruseriousfibro
just cos you cant see the pain and hell that fibromyalgia suffers go though doesnt been that the illness is not real i think u need to stop judging fibros as it sounds like you have no clue what so ever
April 4th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
(continued) … happened. That limited range of motion thing totally went away. Now, its no problem at all to do all those over the shoulder things. Doesn’t hurt to reach for a dish on the high shelf, or… blow dry my hair. I can actually blow dry my hair again with no pain at all. When I recorded this video, a year ago, my hair was wet, ’cause of the shoulders thing. That’s totally not an issue anymore. Gives me a lot of hope.
April 4th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Thank you. You’re very kind. I must confess, I like it, too.
An odd thing has happened recently with regards to me and hair. In the past, it was difficult, more annoying, I guess, to blow dry my hair ’cause it was painful to lift my arms above my head. Ask anyone with fibro– shoulders over the head sucks. “Frozen shoulder” is a very common complaint. It affected my softball playing as it limited my range of motion. Too bad, ’cause I can pitch. But, recently, something really cool…
April 4th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Glad you enjoyed it. Recovering from fibro has been a winding road, rather than a straight path, but I must say that four years after being diagnosed, I am very close to leading the life of a “normal” person. While there are no simplistic answers to fibro, and the “key” is different for each person, I believe the right diet and gentle exercise helps everyone with fibro. I had to eliminate gluten (even though I tested negative for Celiacs’s) and I do moderate cardio. This helps a lot. – D.
April 4th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
I liked your video, it was funny and informational. I think the title is misleading though. I thought your video would be some exercise moves so I recorded it. I wouldn’t have recorded it on to real player if I’d known the content. (saving space on my laptop only 80 Gb) Anyway, enjoyed the video,,,keep on blogging!
April 4th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Hi Krobinson! Sorry about the title- didn’t mean to use up laptop space. Totally understand. My laptop is filled to the gills. I am constantly having to Empty Trash just to keep the thing running. Feel free to delete me, of course. I originally called this video Exercise and Fibromyalgia. But, nobody watched it. Too boring, I guess. Took me two weeks to edit this video, so i wanted folks to see it. So, a new name… sorry for any butt wiggle confusion.
April 5th, 2010 at 1:48 am
lol