Liz,
Look for exercise on the internet. Last week I was looking for exercises for anterior hip tilt and they had some exercises using the roller but I'm sure if you google roller exercises you will find plenty.
Gentle Hugs,
Stacey
Thanks Stacey! I'll check it out.
Liz
My chiropractor just told me there is walking pool for arthritics not too terribly far from where I live. I never heard of such a thing! He said it goes around like a track, but it's water! I can;t wait to find that one.
I got a couple of DVD's too, thanks for your input. One is Tai Chi, which I've done before, and I loved it way back when. I really did feel feel a lightness and enhanced calm energy. I have to stay away from the twisting too, bc of my back though. I used to like yoga a lot, I haven't done it bc I was scared of the twisting. But heck ya gotta do something,,, And, like you said they always show an easier version, in my experience. Maybe you can ask if they will?
The foam roller I got came with a DVD but a lot of the things on it are beyond my current capabilities so I search youtube and found this guy...... he has more than one, but this is a start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMGaHZU06UI&list=PL5483BDAA703B38D8
When I started, I don't think I could do everything on here either so I should really watch it again to see if there are some more things I can now add.
Oh, and I think it's totally wrong for someone to charge at the support group like that.
So sorry you didn't have a good outcome. It may very well be that she wasn't very well trained. In my experience it was very painful in the beginning (I cried during the first several sessions), and then I would be wiped out for a day or two, but in the long run it made such a difference.
One thing that is important when doing an extended session of trigger point or any deep tissue massage, is to drink plenty of water afterwards to help flush out the toxins.
You may have better luck using the book and just work areas on yourself that are the most troublesome at the time.
I would avoid any diet that contains the words “detox”. This sort of diet is almost always based on some sort of pseudoscience, and isn’t good for long term health or weight loss. Dr. Hyman, in particular, has made a killing on these diets, catering to the elite and wealthy, and branding his own form of medicine (functional medicine). I could go on about him, but you get the point. 
We don’t need to detoxify our bodies. They are already made to do their own filtering. And any diet that promises rapid weight loss is too good to be true. A good diet containing variety and moderation is all we really need to make our bodies happy for the long term.
Obviously, to each their own, but I hate to see another person taken in by this guy and his junk-science.
Really?! I didn't see anywhere where you give him money...unless it's buying the cookbooks?? Anyway, thanks for the heads up, GrumpyCat, I will definitely check this out more thoroughly!
Like someone else shared, I do feel better (generally, not specific to FM) when I "eat clean" is what I call it, basically fruit, veggies, meat, healthy oils & not much (or any) junk. Unfortunately I LOVE bread in all it's glorious forms...But anyway, that was why it made sense to me.
Liz
Thank you Hope, I will check those out.
Yeah, I thought it was a little underhanded myself, but I have never been in a support group before, so I thought oh well, maybe the person running it needs to recoup their costs of hosting it or something. I have never had the money, so I couldn't pay her for anything. She would give some info but then say to really get into come to her seminar, or make an appointment...It's so monumentally hard to get myself anywhere, it feels like a fight when there are roadblocks in it like that.
Thanks for the validation about that.
Liz
It’s not that he is asking for money for the masses, though he does host a number of high dollar functions. It’s the information that he sells that is concerning. I’m tying hard to think of a way to explain it so that it conveys thought the internet. Sometimes that is so frustrating! I guess the best way to say it is that the diets are supposedly based on tons of research that doesn’t actually exist. Does that make sense?
Yes, it certainly does make a lot of sense. I don't like BS any more than the next guy, believe me I will jump off a bandwagon faster than anyone. LOL, I got what you meant! I think that's why I prefer emails and texting to talking bc so often I THINK I'm going to say something meaning ful and end up saying ..."Ummm Ahhhh oh darn, I can't remember.."
;)
Liz
I will check him and his information out further thanks to your information. I want to say that I have absolutely nothing invested in Dr. Hyman. My point of view is that if his ideas help me, that's all I need. I'm not one of these people who are easily swayed, or jump on every passing bandwagon. In fact, I'm not even a joiner at all.
The reason I was even a little bit persuaded by what he says is because a good bit of I already knew bc I've known some of it for years, or have learned it in other ways. And basically he says many of the same things as my nutritional therapist says and recommends. That's why I was willing to believe the parts he said that I didn't know already.
:)
Liz