Welcome!

Welcome to The Fibromyalgic Academic! I started this website to chronicle my journey during my PhD program while dealing with symptoms of fibromyalgia. 

(You can learn more about fibromyalgia here).

Feel free to scroll through my blog posts to follow my journey, or you can go directly though specific posts:

My journey

• Getting diagnosed
• On Appreciation
• Telling my PhD committee about fibro

Tips for success – academic

• Navigating chronic illness and grad school – from my committee member
• My experience telecommuting 

Reflections and Critical pieces

• “Publish or Perish”: How Academia Perpetuates that Your Worth is Your Productivity

Tips for success – life in general

• Hiking with fibro
• My emergency fibro kit
• CBD self-medicating: what worked for me

Latest posts

• Keeping track: how to manage everything when your mind is no help
• 8 tips for surviving academic conferences with fibromyalgia
• Spinning my wheels with new medication
• Mental health, grad school, and fibromyalgia
• Reflections on accessibility