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Lived Experience of Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia: Women's Stories From Daily LifeSection for Physiotherapy Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway.
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.
Key Words: chronic pain • fibromyalgia • women • lived experience • hermeneutic phenomenology
Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 16, No. 6,
741-761 (2006) This article has been cited by other articles:
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