How to Find Lasting Fibromyalgia Relief

Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal pain condition that’s under the umbrella of the 100-plus conditions known as arthritis. However, unlike most types of arthritis, fibromyalgia does more than affect one or two joints. 

Common symptoms include joint pain and stiffness throughout your body, constant fatigue, depression and anxiety, brain fog, tingling or numb hands or feet, digestive problems, and urinary incontinence. Approximately 4 million Americans live with the pain and fatigue of fibromyalgia. It most commonly strikes women and adults over age 40. 

Without treatment, this draining condition can make it difficult to live a full and active life. At Advanced Medical Care, our caring team takes fibromyalgia seriously and offers wellness treatments to provide lasting relief.

Restore your glutathione levels

Glutathione is a tripeptide (a string of molecules) composed of cysteine, glycine, and glutamic acid. Healthy cells in your body are full of glutathione, which helps them:

• Fuel their mitochondria
• Subdue excess inflammation
• Get rid of toxins and heavy metals
• Recover from oxidative stress
• Repair DNA damage

As you age or battle a chronic disease, your glutathione levels tend to plummet. Restoring glutathione has been shown to help in a number of chronic health conditions and diseases, including fibromyalgia, neurodegenerative diseases, and liver disease.

You can restore your glutathione levels by eliminating toxins, such as alcohol, which deplete your stores. You can also replenish your glutathione with intravenous infusions of the powerful antioxidant. At Advanced Medical Care, our glutathione IV treatment gets straight into your bloodstream to start helping right away.

Help your body make more glutathione

Once you’ve replenished your glutathione levels, you can make changes to your diet and lifestyle that help your body keep this antioxidant in fresh supply. Consider:

• Whey supplements 
• 83 g almonds per day 
• 500 mL of alcohol-free beer daily
• Meditation

One study found that people who meditate using a stress-relief breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya had 20% higher levels of glutathione than those who didn’t. 

Change some habits

The healthier and more active your lifestyle, the more likely it is that you can manage your fibromyalgia and achieve lasting relief. Lifestyle tweaks that you might try include:

• Regular stretch and movement breaks
• Wearing more comfortable shoes
• Exercising regularly
• Eating whole foods, such as fresh vegetables and pastured meats
• Meditation or deep breathing
• Getting outdoors and in nature more
• Making your work station more ergonomic
• Improving your sleep hygiene
• Treating other conditions, including sleep apnea
• Losing excess weight
• Quitting cigarettes, alcohol, and recreational drugs

Not only do these lifestyle changes improve your general health, but they increase your glutathione levels, too.

Get support

Living with chronic pain can drain you emotionally as well as physically. Anything you can do to help your body feel better may increase your functionality and decrease your stress. Consider options such as physical or occupational therapy, massage, counseling and support groups, chiropractic and massage, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and IV infusions.

Are you drained by fibromyalgia pain? Find out how to get relief at a wellness consultation with the team at Advanced Medical Care in Queens or Brooklyn, New York. Schedule an appointment online or over the phone today.