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Creative Fibro covers Fibromyalgia, life alongside chronic illness and finding ways to keep creativity in your life. Choose a category below for a guided way through the blog, or browse all the articles further down the page.

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Fibromyalgia

Understanding Fibromyalgia, symptoms, flare-ups, treatment experiences and living with the condition.

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Co-Conditions

Living with other symptoms and conditions alongside Fibromyalgia.

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Spoonie Life

Everyday life, work, pacing, seasons, practical adaptations and the realities of living with limited energy.

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Creativity

Creative living, cardmaking, colouring, diamond painting and ways to keep making when energy is limited.

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Fibromyalgia

25th Sep 2026

Fibromyalgia Symptoms

Fibromyalgia is often associated with widespread pain, but that is only part of the picture. This guide looks at the many ways Fibromyalgia can affect […]

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Spoonie Lifestyle

4th Sep 2026

Autumn As A Spoonie

Autumn brings cosy evenings, beautiful colours and a welcome change of pace, but life with fibromyalgia can make the season complicated. Here’s what autumn looks […]

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Card Making

6th Aug 2026

Beginner’s Guide to Cardmaking

Discover how to get started with cardmaking, from choosing your first tools to finding inspiration. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, I share practical […]

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Spoonie Lifestyle

11th Dec 2025

How Fibro Fog Led Me to Create a Home Inventory System

Fibro Fog made it far too easy to lose track of what I owned — so after accidentally buying a second laminator, I created a […]

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Fibromyalgia

11th Sep 2025

To Call the Doctor or Not?

Is it right to take the appointment from an employed person who needs to be seen to get a fit note or the treatment that […]

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Fibromyalgia

7th Mar 2025

Complex Sleep Problems and Fibro

Complex sleep problems are one of the issues you have to deal with when you have Fibromyalgia this is my experience.

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Spoonie Lifestyle

5th Sep 2024

Fibro and potential ME means Living in a void

The truth is, I often feel like I am living in a void. I understand that this seems a strange thing to say. It wasn't […]

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Co Conditions

4th Jul 2024

Fibromyalgia and Tinnitus

Sometimes I am still surprised when yet another symptom turns out to be linked to Fibromyalgia. Back in March (2024) I had about three sinus/ear […]

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Spoonie Lifestyle

16th May 2024

Bereavement One Year On

In just over a week it will be a year since my Dad died. I talked about it in the post Dealing with Loss. I […]

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