Lived Experience of Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia: Women's Stories From Daily Life
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Health Research
- Vol. 16 (6), 741-761
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732306288521
Abstract
The hermeneutic-phenomenological study presented in this article is grounded in a lifeworld perspective. The authors aimed at rich descriptions of women's lived experience of chronic pain and fibromyalgia. They conducted individual life-form interviews with 12 women with fibromyalgia. On the basis of the women's stories, three typologies were developed: at the will of the treacherous body—powerlessness; struggling to escape the treacherous body— ambivalence; and caring for the treacherous body—coping. The lived experience described in the typologies were further interpreted according to the existentials: lived body, lived time and space, and lived relations. The women's stories point to a world experienced as fundamentally changed by a body in chronic pain, describing a struggle in which they feel that their existence is at stake.Keywords
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