How to Use Twitter to Manage Your Pain
Determining a level of pain at the start and end of the day via a written journal or blog is a recommended task for people with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue.
To help create insight into their illness.
However sometimes spending time writing or charting pain is an overwhelming task.
Fibromyaliga or FM affects millions of people.
It's a peculiar illness with symptoms that include muscle pain, extreme fatigue, and multiple tender body points.
The muscle pain is a burning achy sensation that engulfs different areas of a sufferers body.
Fibromyaliga effects more women than men.
FM is non life threatening.
But the illness is disabling.
Blogs can be difficult to update daily for someone suffering from fibromyalgia.
Ultimately this fact makes blogging useless to chart daily pain.
An unkempt blog for pain level management adds a level of stress.
Which is the opposite of the goal for starting a pain blog.
Twitter requires very little maintenance while providing much more interaction than a blog.
With Twitter posting a 140 character pain Tweet informs friends and families about your pain level easily.
Twittering is as easy as sending a text message.
Best, instead of sending an individual text message to everyone everyday, which would be costly and time consuming task, Twitter sends the message to everyone that follows your Tweets.
A great reason fo friends and family to Follow you on Twitter.
One well worded Tweet provides the whole story.
Making Twitter an ideal tool to chart pain management.
A pain Tweet is delivered directly to your friends' Twitter timeline informing them about your capabilities that day.
Twitter's limited word count requires a pain rating system to be used that is easily understandable by everyone who reads your message.
The most recognizable method to delivering an insightful easy to understand pain Tweet is a 1 - 10 numeric message.
Combined with few words about where the day is heading.
1 - 2 Bedridden Hurting Immensely 3 - 4 Needing Rest Chores Piling Up 4 - 5 Average Disabled Day 6 - 7 Enjoyable Day 8 - 9 A Rare Day Without Pain 10 - There Are No Days That Are 10
To help create insight into their illness.
However sometimes spending time writing or charting pain is an overwhelming task.
Fibromyaliga or FM affects millions of people.
It's a peculiar illness with symptoms that include muscle pain, extreme fatigue, and multiple tender body points.
The muscle pain is a burning achy sensation that engulfs different areas of a sufferers body.
Fibromyaliga effects more women than men.
FM is non life threatening.
But the illness is disabling.
Blogs can be difficult to update daily for someone suffering from fibromyalgia.
Ultimately this fact makes blogging useless to chart daily pain.
An unkempt blog for pain level management adds a level of stress.
Which is the opposite of the goal for starting a pain blog.
Twitter requires very little maintenance while providing much more interaction than a blog.
With Twitter posting a 140 character pain Tweet informs friends and families about your pain level easily.
Twittering is as easy as sending a text message.
Best, instead of sending an individual text message to everyone everyday, which would be costly and time consuming task, Twitter sends the message to everyone that follows your Tweets.
A great reason fo friends and family to Follow you on Twitter.
One well worded Tweet provides the whole story.
Making Twitter an ideal tool to chart pain management.
A pain Tweet is delivered directly to your friends' Twitter timeline informing them about your capabilities that day.
Twitter's limited word count requires a pain rating system to be used that is easily understandable by everyone who reads your message.
The most recognizable method to delivering an insightful easy to understand pain Tweet is a 1 - 10 numeric message.
Combined with few words about where the day is heading.
1 - 2 Bedridden Hurting Immensely 3 - 4 Needing Rest Chores Piling Up 4 - 5 Average Disabled Day 6 - 7 Enjoyable Day 8 - 9 A Rare Day Without Pain 10 - There Are No Days That Are 10
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