Category: Fibromyalgia Treatments

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  • What did you discover and how did you heal yourself of Fibromyalgia?

    What did you discover and how did you heal yourself of Fibromyalgia?

    What I found in 35,000 hours of work going back to 1978 was that lots of things can start FMS, CFS, and other things; injuries, viruses, bacterial infection, and other things that the body attempts to heal for months and years and such. When it fails at healing the “chronic symptoms” develop. They are secondary symptoms, symptoms caused by failing to heal in 3 to 6 months more or less. Most of these symptoms are secondary symptoms.

    I was hit by a truck running a red light. I had three fractured vertebrae, two lopsided crushed disks, many damaged disks in the spine from low back and up, damaged dorsal horns on the left side from over-extension, causing loss of about half my back muscles on the left. I have had chronic pain ever since. Before the crash, I had, in high detail, perhaps 25 chronic symptoms. As the healing proceeded sort of on the new injuries after a while many of the symptoms seemed to morph into other ones. I still have pain in various places from various injuries. I’m developing scoliosis possibly because of the copper deficiency causing connective tissue breakdown in many parts of my body that were the result of refeeding syndrome healing 200 other symptoms including essentially all or most of the symptoms of all those named collections of syndromes.

    Aside from injuries and ongoing refeeding syndrome damage I can’t be diagnosed with any of those things anymore. I don’t have the symptoms that define FMS, CFS, etc anymore, and haven’t for 10+ years. The symptoms I have are related directly to the induced deficiencies of refeeding syndrome. It was great as all the fibro pain, the 18 points, and muscles all over the body returned to normal, healed, and grew back to what they were before atrophy, except the damaged nerves fed muscles. I don’t have exercise intolerance anymore for instance. I can walk 2.5 miles in 35 minutes and do it again if I have time. In the summer I walk 2.5 to 5 miles a day and typically 400 to 1000 vertical feet up and down at 7000 feet just getting around to the swimming pool or community kitchen or the clubhouse or sauna or my RV site. I have been doing that for more than a decade now. That would have been impossible if I still had FMS. I was diagnosed with it multiple times after it had been named 20 years or so after I manifested it.

    I can walk down the detergent aisle in the supermarket without an asthma attack or any discomfort, no more MCS. No more IBS but I got liver damage with the copper deficiency. My doctors now call it a different syndrome, chronic pain syndrome in place of refeeding syndrome as the “refeeding syndrome” is popularly thought of as only a total starvation result. However, the same things can be 40 years of pinpoint starvation which can also be caused by CyCbl, HyCbl, folic acid, folinic acid, vegetable folates, glutathione, NAC, and various other things of a genetic cause because those cause cell formation failure the same as lacking MeCbl, AdoCbl, and L-methyl folate in some people.

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    In 2003–2005 I did an N=1000 private study to develop (I’m was a systems analyst, consultant, and software developer and became too disabled to keep working and couldn’t get SS at that time because FMS and CFS “aren’t real, just a bunch of fakers”. In addition to the disorders in the header and I’ve mentioned here I was diagnosed with “ a secret lying alcoholic”,” yuppie flu”,” an imaginary woman’s disease” (FMS), “faker” (MS for decades before it was recognized),” liar”, hypochondriac, “nobody has that many symptoms liar”, “conversion disorder”, “It’s All In Your Head”. Could that many docs be wrong? In reviewing 15 or so union groups each year it was obvious that docs repeating the same insulting wrong “diagnoses” and treated badly people with FMS and CFS. These names I was called are par for the course in diagnosing FMS and CFS.

    Over 18 years what I was treating was a multitude of secondary symptoms. Essentially everybody who doesn’t complete healing in 3 to 6 months develops chronic disease syndrome dependent upon details. These secondary symptoms can be reduced tremendously. So everything that can be healed isn’t the cause of FMS. What causes secondary symptoms can be literally almost anything which is why the “cause” has gone from chronic mono, it took me two years to heal many of the secondary symptoms after mono. And traumatic injuries are thought to be involved in 50% of cases of FMS and so on.

    So the hypothesis of refeeding syndrome can be tested. On May 21, 2003, I knew within 10 minutes of putting a sublingual MeCbl in my mouth of exceptional qualitative effects that my life was changed. People who have a lot of symptoms on that questionaire I started so many years ago reacted strongly to the MeCbl inside of 1 hour. From there generally, in about 3 days potassium and/or l-methyl folate deficiencies blossom forth which then need to be titrated until the symptoms are gone and then maintain the new dose, and go to the next set of symptoms. Once cell making is started well a person gets into the refeeding groove and then there is prediction after prediction of patterns of symptoms and as you match up the pattern you know what to use next. About 75% of people with many of the symptoms patterns respond to MeCbl in an hour if it is of sufficient characteristic. 80–85% with L-methyl folate added in, 85–90% with AdoCbl added, 90–95% with L-carnitine x (the kind that knocks your socks off, and that is subject to change as the body heals) and finally, vitamin D can increase by another 5% or so. 20% of those who forgot having any of the symptoms had them suddenly improving said” Oh the doctor said these symptoms are nonspecific and meaningless so I just forgot about them”, and then they named off many of the usual symptoms. Men did this the most.

    As response if done correctly, and I have a list of the 95% reasons why what a person does, doesn’t work, happens very quickly and progresses in about 5-day cycles potentially, there is not a long time of waiting to see if it works. Then suddenly all of the person’s fears come up in the form of hypotheses like “detox” theory and other things that stop a person from doing what is needed to heal. To many people, this whole thing seems terribly unintuitive. Vitamins are not drugs. For instance, as a trace mineral vanadium in the form of vanadyl sulfate is used to get rid of a deficiency and does its a thing at 2 mg rather than the pharmaceutical dose of 200–400 mg to try to force it to work. However, it only makes a noticeable effect if it is deficient. That is true of all these nutrients. If they do anything, they are helping to make cells that then cause the next in line set of nutrient deficiency. Only the thing stopping cell formation has a near-immediate response to the just caused or worsened symptoms. So in doing this you are playing a dangerous game of “refeeding syndrome”. I have had severe damages from copper and boron deficiencies because they were not recognized for 7 or more years.

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    The one that can kill you if ignored or called “detox” sometimes, to be weathered instead of corrected immediately, is hypokalemia. And the rate of drawing on potassium faster than it can be reloaded to the serum from the tissues can cause hypokalemia, low potassium symptoms. It can happen as high as 4.3 or maybe higher. The things like heart irregularities that low potassium causes are not pegged to the value of a lab test but rather on the ability of your body to supply the amount of potassium when it is needed. It doesn’t wait for “my evening dose”.

    The CblC disease review study that recognizes the adult-onset type says plainly that electrolyte instability is usual in either the disease or the treatment of it, and again it is a genetic cause of “starvation” and treating it is refeeding syndrome all over again. It causes all the usual symptoms, hundreds of them until it kills.

    I was desperate. I would have been dead of congestive heart disease back likely in 2004 or so. My internist said after a year of seeing me visibly change every 3 weeks that “I have never seen anybody come back from so far over the line.” Something to consider on CHF. The 10 years after diagnosis mortality rate of CHF is 80%. I’m 25 years post-diagnosis and I don’t have congestive heart failure any more. I lost 85 pounds of water, 50 pounds of fat and restored 50 pounds of previously atrophied muscle in a two-year period after 2–3 years into healing. I weigh under 200 pounds instead of 285 with thigh muscles no thicker than my thumb.

    People are used to suffering for decades. For the last 10+ years before I started MeCbl (before it was available) I woke up every day after 3–5 hours of sleep, lousy sleep, limited by pain, with tears running down my face before I’m awake and wishing I was dead. The reason this whole business even exists at this widespread fashion is because of a lab mistake that won a Nobel prize because the mistake wasn’t discovered for 11 years and then basically ignored in the USA and many other places. And they use folic acid and poison many of our population by putting it in white flour and many other things. Only half the people can use it up to about 800–1000 mcg and they may need 45 mgs of l-methylfolate to heal, determined via titration. Doctors telling us that we are not important, that these things are not serious and not healable. Of course, they all read the same bad research so it isn’t the doctors missing it. There is essentially fake news back in the foundation of our present nutritional logic which wreaks havoc with our health. Part of the problem is the “abnormal” have become “normal” in the past 70 years of CyCbl and folic acid caused chronic deficiencies have made many tests just plain wrong.

    Here is a “short” version of the information to do it. It isn’t anything like “take 2 every 4 hours”. Instead, it’s a method to recognize deficiencies and correct that which stops making cells where you can see or feel the differences.

    What I found in 35,000 hours of work going back to 1978 was that lots of things can start FMS, and CFS and other things; injuries, viruses, bacterial infection and other things that the body attempts to heal for months and years and such. When it fails at healing the “chronic symptoms” develop. They are secondary symptoms, symptoms caused by failing to heal in 3 to 6 months more or less. Most of these symptoms are secondary symptoms.

    I was hit by a truck running a red light. I had three fractured vertebrae, two lopsided crushed disks, many damaged disks in the spine from low back and up, damaged dorsal horns on the left side from over-extension, causing loss of about half my back muscles on the left. I have had chronic pain ever since. Before the crash, I had, in high detail, perhaps 25 chronic symptoms. As the healing proceeded sort of on the new injuries after a while many of the symptoms seemed to morph into other ones. I still have pain in various places from various injuries. I’m developing scoliosis possibly because of the copper deficiency causing connective tissue breakdown in many parts of my body that were the result of refeeding syndrome healing 200 other symptoms including essentially all or most of the symptoms of all those named collections of syndromes.

    Aside from injuries and ongoing refeeding syndrome damage I can’t be diagnosed with any of those things anymore. I don’t have the symptoms that define FMS, CFS, etc anymore. I don’t have exercise intolerance anymore for instance. I can walk 2.5 miles in 35 minutes and do it again if I have time. In the summer I walk 2.5 to 5 miles a day and typically 400 to 1000 vertical feet up and down at 7000 feet just getting around to the swimming pool or community kitchen or the clubhouse or sauna or my RV site. That would have been impossible if I still had FMS. I was diagnosed with it multiple times after it had been named 20 years or so after I manifested it.

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    I can walk down the detergent aisle in the supermarket without an asthma attack or any discomfort, no more MCS. No more IBS but I got liver damage with the copper deficiency. My doctors now call it a different syndrome, chronic pain syndrome in place of refeeding syndrome as the “refeeding syndrome” is popularly thought of as only a total starvation result. However, the same things can be 40 years of pinpoint starvation which can also be caused by CyCbl, HyCbl, folic acid, folinic acid, vegetable folates, glutathione, NAC, and various other things of a genetic cause because those cause cell formation failure the same as lacking MeCbl, AdoCbl, and L-methyl folate in some people.

    In 2003–2005 I did an N=1000 private study to develop (I’m was a systems analyst, consultant, and software developer and became too disabled to keep working and couldn’t get SS at that time because FMS and CFS “aren’t real, just a bunch of fakers”. In addition to the disorders in the header and I’ve mentioned here I was diagnosed with “ a secret lying alcoholic”,” yuppie flu”,” an imaginary woman’s disease” (FMS), “faker” (MS for decades before it was recognized),” liar”, hypochondriac, “nobody has that many symptoms liar”, “conversion disorder”, “It’s All In Your Head”. Could that many docs be wrong? In reviewing 15 or so union groups each year it was obvious that docs repeating the same insulting wrong “diagnoses” and treated badly people with FMS and CFS. These names I was called are par for the course in diagnosing FMS and CFS.

    Over 18 years what I was treating was a multitude of secondary symptoms. Essentially everybody who doesn’t complete healing in 3 to 6 months develop chronic disease syndrome dependent upon details. These secondary symptoms can be reduced tremendously. So everything that can be healed isn’t the cause of FMS. What causes secondary symptoms can be literally almost anything which is why the “cause” has gone from chronic mono, it took me two years to heal many of the secondary symptoms after mono. And traumatic injuries are thought to be involved in 50% of cases of FMS and so on.

    So the hypothesis of refeeding syndrome can be tested. On May 21, 2003 I knew within 10 minutes of putting a sublingual MeCbl in my mouth of exceptional qualitative effects that my life was changed. People who have a lot of symptoms on that questionaire I started so many years ago reacted strongly to the MeCbl inside of 1 hour. From there generally in about 3 days potassium and/or l-methylfolate deficiencies blossom forth which then need to be titrated until the symptoms are gone and then maintain the new dose, and go to the next set of symptoms. Once cell making is started well apersongets into the refeeding groove and then there is prediction after prediction of patterns of symptoms and as you match up the pattern you know what to use next. About 75% of people with many of the symptoms patterns respond to MeCbl in an hour if it is of sufficient characteristic. 80–85% with L-methylfolate added in, 85–90% with AdoCbl added, 90–95% with L-carnitine x (the kind that knocks your socks off, and that is subject to change as the body heals) and finally vitamin D can increase by another 5% or so. 20% of those who forgot having any of the symptoms had them suddenly improving said” Oh the doctor said these symptoms are nonspecific and meaningless so I just forgot about them”, and then they named off many of the usual symptoms. Men did this the most.

    In response, if done correctly, and I have a list of the 95% reasons why what a person does, doesn’t work, happens very quickly and progresses in about 5-day cycles potentially, there is not a long time of waiting to see if it works. Then suddenly all of the person’s fears come up in the form of hypotheses like “detox” theory and other things that stop a person from doing what is needed to heal. To many people this whole thing seems terribly unintuitive. Vitamins are not drugs. For instance, as a trace mineral vanadium in the form of vanadyl sulphate is used to get rid of a deficiency and does it’s the thing at 2 mg rather than the pharmaceutical dose of 200–400 mg to try to force it to work. However, it only makes a noticeable effect if it is deficient. That is true of all these nutrients. If they do anything, they are helping to make cells that then cause the next in line set of nutrient deficiency. Only the thing stopping cell formation has a near-immediate response to the just caused or worsened symptoms. So in doing this you are playing a dangerous game of “refeeding syndrome”. I have had severe damages from copper and boron deficiencies because they were not recognized for 7 or more years.

    The one that can kill you if ignored or called “detox” sometimes, to be weathered instead of corrected immediately, is hypokalemia. And the rate of drawing on potassium faster than it can be reloaded to the serum from the tissues can cause hypokalemia, low potassium symptoms. It can happen as high as 4.3 or maybe higher. The things like heart irregularities that low potassium causes are not pegged to the value of a lab test but rather on the ability of your body to supply the amount of potassium when it is needed. It doesn’t wait for “my evening dose”.

    The CblC disease review study that recognizes the adult-onset type says plainly that electrolyte instability is usual in either the disease or the treatment of it, and again it is a genetic cause of “starvation” and treating it is refeeding syndrome all over again. It causes all the usual symptoms, hundreds of them until it kills.

    Click here to Get this or Visit Fibromyalgia Store

    I was desperate. I would have been dead of congestive heart disease back likely in 2004 or so. My internist said after a year of seeing me visibly change each 3 weeks that “I have never seen anybody come back from so far over the line.” Something to consider on CHF. The 10 years after diagnosis mortality rate of CHF is 80%. I’m 25 years post-diagnosis and I don’t have congestive heart failure anymore. I lost 85 pounds of water, 50 pounds of fat and restored 50 pounds of previously atrophied muscle in a two-year period after 2–3 years into healing. I weigh under 200 pounds instead of 285 with thigh muscles no thicker than my thumb.

    People are used to suffering for decades. For the last 10+ years I woke up every day after 3–5 hours of sleep, lousy sleep, limited by pain, with tears running down my face before I’m awake and wishing I was dead. The reason this whole business even exists in this widespread fashion is because of a lab mistake that won a Nobel prize because the mistake wasn’t discovered for 11 years and then basically ignored in the USA and many other places. And they use folic acid and poison many of our population by putting it in white flour and many other things. Only half the people can use it up to about 800–1000 mcg and they may need 45 mgs of l-methylfolate to heal, determined via titration. Doctors tell us that we are not important, that these things are not serious and not healable. Of course they all read the same bad research so it isn’t the doctors missing it. There is essentially fake news back in the foundation of our present nutritional logic which wreaks havoc with our health. Part of the problem is the “abnormal” have become “normal” in the past 70 years of CyCbl and folic acid-caused chronic deficiencies have made many tests just plain wrong.

    Here is a “short” version of the information to do it. It isn’t anything like “take 2 every 4 hours”. Instead it’s a method to recognize deficiencies and correct that which stops making cells where you can see or feel the differences.

    Fred Davis’s answer to Has someone used a MeCbl treatment for patients or has been treated with MeCbl? What for and what were the outcomes? (Fred Davis’s answer to Has someone used a MeCbl treatment for patients or has been treated with MeCbl? What for and what were the outcomes?)

    After the secondary symptoms from healing or attempting to heal are all cleared up, what remains could be the FMS. My experience now is the old injuries damage, deficiency damage and identifiable cause symptoms is what I have left after healing many of the secondary symptoms. Each batch of different refeeding symptoms can look like relapse except that it usually goes away in a few days as quickly as it returned and unlike FMS or CFS there is no mystery at all about the cause. This whole thing is a result of basically an A-B longitudinal feeding trial of 60 years. 40+ years of trial A with folic acid and CyCbl.

    The B branch trial started in 2003 with the direct human active folate and cobalamin s instead of folic acid which compared to methyl folate is like flaxseed oil compared to linoleum, very oxidized and spoiled. The hypothesis of refeeding syndrome is easy to test. I basically was attempting to establish what our health would be like without the Nobel prize for B12 which turned out to be a seriously bad mistake and instead, we have millions of sick people with chronic disease for decades because of these two experiments tried on the USA population. I think it is time to correct the mistake that was never able to validate with matching the results of “protein mystery factor”, like getting new mothers with postpartum depression out of the mental hospital in 3 days and the same with some other disorders. Failing to duplicate the liver extract concentrate with CyCbl was a fatal mistake. Ignoring that failure is a huge failure as the whole logical structure based on folic acid and CyCbl is a failure and makes people sick and corrupt tests.

    FMS and CFS and similar things are logical constructs, a syndrome, the same as chronic pain syndrome which is virtually identical to FMS accept that pain is the main nonhealing item. “IT”, a syndrome isn’t there when you take away the symptoms. As when you get to downtown Oakland it is said “There is no ‘there’, there”.

    The same is true for “refeeding syndrome”, when you eliminate the symptoms, there is nothing there. It’s a process that happens due to lacks. FMS happens becasue of lack of things, not presence of them. When trying to heal from almost anything, if not successful and secondary symptoms start forming, you are getting it. How fast is a deficiency symptom affected? In minutes to hours if it is THE item’s lack that is stopping a process such as growing a cell.

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  • Have you ever suffered from rapid weight gain from fibromyalgia medication?

    Have you ever suffered from rapid weight gain from fibromyalgia medication?

    Oh boy, what a question and you got the right person to ask, if you research and I don’t mean just google. I mean research the medications you take. You will find most if not all have side effects and one of them is weight gain and fatigue. Some also deplete vitamins so ask your doctors for information.

    If you suffer from Fibromyalgia pain/Chronic pain, it is difficult to move. If you also have any kind of arthritis this only makes it more of an extreme problem to exercise. It’s possible to drop some weight when changing eating habits and or removing chemicals and toxins which are in many foods.

    In order to have the ability to drop some weight, exercise is needed. With Fibromyalgia movement is very painful and it feels like your body is broken. Start off slow and do simple exercises targeting certain areas. It won’t be easy but you learn as go what can work for you. I believe anything is possible if we try.

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    • Are you experiencing chronic pain?
    • Did you already have chronic pain prior to taking medications?
    • Are you experiencing fatigue?

    Made changes in my lifestyle and especially my eating habits. I didn’t eat a lot but I didn’t eat healthy at all. So I needed to make serious changes.

    Here are some of my results

    Two years of good health and still learning how to live again. Then one day I began to feel like I was going backward with my health. I ignored it but it was happening so fast the more I ignored it the worse it was getting. Whatever it was it was beyond my control and deeper than I could see. I returned to doctors stating my issues.

    • Pain in my hip
    • Pain in my thigh
    • Pain in my stomach
    • Pain in my back

    I stated it was not the normal pain I felt due to fibro or lupus. I went back every month for six months with the same issues getting worse and they sent me to other doctors.

    On that final visit, they told me I needed to take medications for my diabetes and cholesterol, I was at risk of a stroke. I went home that day and admitted failure to myself. I was in too much pain to exercise/move for an outcome of weight loss. Deciding I would do the weight loss surgery. I found a surgeon and made an appointment the next day. Here’s when things go left.

    The surgeon within seconds diagnoses me with an umbilical hernia. What do you mean I have a hernia, I just had a physical a few months ago. I told him based on what he was telling me, I had a change in my belly button when I had my son fourteen years ago.

    I then asked for a scan or something that could see what was going on in my stomach. He denied me, so I was to wait 3–6 months more, and at the point of him doing surgery is when I would find out what was going on. Four surgeons later I finally found one who agreed to ct scan.

    I had four hernias all encased in sacs of fat and the umbilical hernia was trapped which is not good. My core which holds your organs in place and gives you balance was shredded. So a double diastasis Recti procedure was needed as well. Which is reconstructing the core.

    The pains I was having were due to their hernias and their locations of them. Once I healed from surgery I addressed what I knew to be the only other health issues within me.

    A few months after surgery I sort care from a new primary doctor. After running multiple tests it was discovered my pancreas was not pushing out insulin as needed so my levels were high due to this issue. If you have an insulin issue no matter what you do, weight loss will not happen. Once the issue is addressed and medication begins, including dietary changes with exercise. This is when you will see a change.

    I DID NOT HAVE FIBROMYALGIA, I experienced long-term extreme overall pain due to four hernias in my body for a long period of time. Since my surgery my pain excluding surgery healing. I have not experienced fibromyalgia or signs of it.

    What I can say is this, my pancreas was not pushing out insulin as it should. I need medication which I did not want to go this route. I take injections once a week now on my second pen and 8th injection. I feel no difference better or worse but some slight pain or discomfort in my thighs.

    Pay attention to your body, your face will tell your story. If you can not move around due to fibro pain it will be very difficult to drop the weight. Is it weight or inflammation? You can make changes to the type of foods you eat. Cut-out white foods and sugars make a huge difference.

    Hope this was helpful

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  • What made you think you needed to see a doctor and be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia?

    What made you think you needed to see a doctor and be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia?

    Yes, I was diagnosed in 2001.

    In 1999, I suffered a back injury at work. Even though I followed my treating physician’s advice, including physical therapy and home exercises, the pain in my back just wouldn’t ease up.

    Within a year, I had widespread pain that felt like I’d overtaxed my muscles. (To this day, the area of my injury is extremely sensitive to the touch, as if someone kicked me in the sacrum.) My physician referred me to a rheumatologist who confirmed the diagnosis of fibromyalgia…after nearly six months of medical testing to rule out other medical conditions. I had loads of blood tests, x-rays, MRIs, an EMG test of my muscle function, and a nerve conduction test.

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    There isn’t one tried-and-true treatment for fibromyalgia, so I can only tell you what has helped me.

    Move. Don’t be overly sedentary because your muscles will tighten and cramp. Stretch frequently.

    Eat. And I mean real food. I eliminated all fast food and most processed food. Now, I buy ingredients, not food. This naturally reduced my weight by 30 pounds and ensured I was getting proper nutrition. (I don’t recommend supplements because they’re not regulated, so you have no idea what you’re getting.)

    Hydrate. Make sure you’re drinking sufficient fluids throughout the day.

    Think. Chronic pain irrevocably changes your life. There is a grieving process for the “you” you’ve lost, which must eventually lead you to acceptance. Once you’ve accepted this new life, you’re capable of finding new ways to do things that are physically demanding, like pacing your activities, getting help from family and friends, and the like. Sometimes, thinking is difficult; fibromyalgia includes cognitive “fog.” My solution is lists, alarms, and reminders.

    Medicate. Fibromyalgia pain can be difficult to treat. It doesn’t stem from inflammation, infection, or injury. And it doesn’t begin in the peripheral nervous system but in the brain. For these reasons, NSAIDs and opioids are useless. Some people are helped by antidepressants, muscle relaxants, and/or anti-seizure drugs. Personally, I make cannabis edibles. (Yes, it’s legal where I live.) It’s the only medication I’ve found that treats the pain, muscle tension, and depression.

    Also, if, like me, the fibromyalgia is disabling, don’t despair. You now have the priceless gift of time, and can do whatever you like with it. Even after nearly 20 years, I don’t get bored. I read voraciously, dabble in writing, watch movies, play computer games, answer questions on Quora, participate in forums, etc.

    Yes, of course, there is suffering; chronic pain is unrelenting and demoralizing. But you absolutely can still have an enjoyable life, even though it’ll be different from the one you planned.

    Lastly, be aware that fibromyalgia makes many people more susceptible to autoimmune diseases—I currently have three—so ensure you choose a rheumatologist who understands fibromyalgia AND considers you as part of your health care team.

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  • What would you advise to someone who is young and has Fibromyalgia?

    What would you advise to someone who is young and has Fibromyalgia?

    Bless your heart! I would say to you to get a notebook dedicated to writing down everything you eat and how you are feeling every day. Write down your pain levels and fatigue levels and how your food affects you. If any foods cause you to have abdominal pain eliminate them from your diet. Additionally, stop all sugar except in the form of fresh whole organic fruit.

    This is because I believe that fibromyalgia is caused by a disorder of the gut biome. This means that you’ve taken so many antibiotics they have stripped the normal bacteria out of your intestinal tract and you now have abnormal bacteria in your gut. You can put them back in by eating probiotics. You can eat raw cheese in moderation, but not pasteurized.

    The most available raw cheeses are imported Parmesan, Romano, and swiss cheeses. They should be marked made with unpasteurized milk. Raw cheeses have been fermented and will add good bacteria to your diet but pasteurized dairy products will add inflammation to your body. You should only eat grass-fed butter. Kerry Butter from Ireland is the best known.

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    You can eat live fermented foods like Bubbies pickles, or Kombucha, or go to your local farmers market and see if anyone is selling live fermented pickles. You want the kind that is only pickled in salt and water, or in whey and has to be refrigerated. You don’t want pickles in vinegar. Other fermented foods are miso (if you can tolerate soy), which is fermented soy paste, and can be used to make yummy soups.

    Put a spoonful in a small pot of boiling water, and add green onion, minced ginger, garlic, and a few cut-up veggies. You can also add cut-up firm tofu and or small pieces of meat. Cook until the veggies are barely tender, just a minute or two.

    If you are thinking that this doesn’t sound like your normal fast-food diet, you would be right. It will be a new way of thinking for both you and your Mom, and a new way of shopping. You need to have as much organic food as possible, and as little pre-processed and fast food as possible. When you start removing junk from your diet your body will start to tell you when you’re feeding it the right things.

    Your pain will decrease and your energy will increase. Say goodbye to chips and crackers and desserts except for fresh fruits. Say goodbye to pizza, hamburgers, and fries. Try eating homemade soups and stews and grilled fish with herbs on, and big salads and lots of veggies.

    Make your own salad dressings using fresh garlic, olive oil, lemons, a little mustard, or some herbs. Mince, then mash the garlic with salt, add freshly ground pepper, the juice of 2 lemons, and twice the amount of oil to the lemon juice. stir in a little dijon mustard to taste. You won’t want bottled salad dressing after you’ve tried this!

    Make bone broths with organic animal bones. Chicken, beef, and pork all make wonderful broths. Your goal should be to get as much gelatin in the broth as possible, so use the feet. Julia Child’s recipe is the best. The broth will heal your gut and you should eat some every day. 

    Master Recipe For Basic Stock Julia Child) Recipe – Genius Kitchen You can find chicken feet at farmer’s markets and Chinese grocery stores. And good news, you can eat chocolate, but just a little, and it needs to be at least 70%.

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    OK, enough food! Exercise if you can. If you’re too tired or too much in pain, then don’t. One of the things people don’t ever understand is how tired you are and how much you hurt. You can’t explain. Don’t even try, unless you use the pain scale, which is a method doctors and nurses use to quantify pain. 1 is no pain and 10 is screaming out loud pain.

    So figure out where you are between one and 10 and that will help you to track it. Write that in your notebook every day and show it to people when they tell you to stop being lazy. My rule of thumb is that I can work through it up to level 4.

    Level 5 and above is too much pain to be working or exercising through, although I can do seated work at 5–6. If you must take pain medicine, use an NSAID, like Ibuprofen or Naproxen. Don’t take Tylenol. It’s very liver toxic and it’s a useless medicine. It doesn’t touch the pain.

    Try not to take pain medicines, because they will ask how you are feeling, and what your diet is doing to you.

    Get your doctor to do a nutrition test on you. It’s a blood test that checks your nutrition levels. It’s very common for people with fibromyalgia to be short on magnesium, potassium, and B vitamins, for example. It’s also common to have hypothyroid of one sort or another. You need to test both for T4 and T3, and if you’re low on any of these, then you need to take supplements for them.

    Find stuff that’s quiet and constructive that you like to do. Get off your screens if you have any energy. Learn to knit. Paint or find other art projects to do. Make jewelry. Be productive and happy as much as you can. On good days, go to school and try and keep up.

    This disease will not change who you are. You are still you, and you are important and lovable. Be good to yourself, and don’t beat yourself up over this, because it’s not your fault. It’s modern life, sad to say.

    God bless you!

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  • I tell you about Fibromyalgia as Experiencing Pain where there’s no Injury

    I tell you about Fibromyalgia as Experiencing Pain where there’s no Injury

    When people ask, I explain Fibromyalgia (“FMS”) as “experiencing pain where there’s no injury.” This is why it’s so difficult to treat.

    Based on my experience, and that of about 50 other people with a connection to FMS that I’ve questioned over the years, I have believed for many years now that it is caused by trauma – physical trauma, like a car accident, or emotional trauma, such as a bad divorce, because the physical affects the emotional and the emotional affects the physical, they cannot be separated.

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    Since most of the answers here are from three years ago, they cannot be judged in terms of validity as much in the scientific and medical communities can change in three years. Nonetheless, a common thread among many of them is their reference to stress, depression, and other maladies often caused by trauma.

    As to the suggestion that genetics may be a cause, I think medical research will find, if it hasn’t already, that any connection to genetics is related instead to family dysfunction and the extent to which that may lead to a person being more susceptible to experiencing PTSD in situations that might not trigger PTSD in others, but even that is a stretch.

    In the final analysis, I think research will find that FMS is not caused by genetics.

    I had the hallmark symptom of FMS feeling bruised all over within weeks of the trauma-triggering event without knowing what it was, but it was 14 years before I awoke one morning with full-blown FMS. The intervening PTSD that lasted nearly all of that 14 years was so intense, both physically and emotionally, that, if I did have FMS sooner than that, I wouldn’t have known it.

    I believe, instead, that it wasn’t until the severe PTSD (finally diagnosed in year 9) began to subside that FMS made its appearance. The following describes what I believe happened internally. It’s what makes sense based on all the things I was experiencing physically.

    With trauma, the “fight-flight-freeze” response is triggered which releases adrenalin, but when this release of adrenalin continues for too long, the body/brain forgets how to turn it off.

    As a result of this disruption in brain chemistry, the neurotransmitters become confused and end up super-sensitive, so the sensitivity to pain that some mentioned as a possible cause doesn’t cause FMS. It’s one of its consequences.

    It’s my understanding that over the last year or so, the medical community has come to believe that trauma is the cause, but, as was the case in my situation, the trauma-triggering event can precede the appearance of FMS by years.

    Of all the drugs and other treatment options I’ve tried, low-dose Methadone has worked the best, eliminating the weakness that, after 20 yrs. with FMS, seems to trouble me the most. If I could remain in motion 24/7, I wouldn’t have much difficulty at all. Guess that’s why I end up staying up all night so often.

    I’ve noticed that, though the FMS has gradually subsided over the years except for the weakness and inability to sleep more than 2–4 hours, a flare can be easily re-triggered by stressful situations.

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  • As a Fibromyalgia Sufferer Myself, I’ll tell you how it developed in me, As a story form for an easy understanding

    As a Fibromyalgia Sufferer Myself, I’ll tell you how it developed in me, As a story form for an easy understanding

    About eight years ago, I went to my OB/GYN as I was experiencing some mild fatigue and joint pain. I had had a 20-year career as a dancer and had been diagnosed with osteoarthritis. I was having some anxiety about work and had been through a recent breakup, but we looked at physiological causes anyway and ruled out lupus, RA, and Lyme disease.

    When my anxiety about an impending merger at work became worse, we tried an SSRI, but the side effects were untenable, and talk therapy seemed to work better. We kind of wrote it off to a lot of typical midlife stuff and arthritis, but my NP thought it could be fibromyalgia.

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    Fast forward to about four years ago. The merger at work resulted in me having been made redundant. I had gone through a financial crisis like many people during the economic downturn–drained my savings, lost my house, etc. I was an empty nester and had become the target of some parental alienation when my ex remarried. I had had to put one of my dogs to sleep, and my BF had broken up with me.

    I had moved to Mexico, a traumatic event itself, where the COL is low, and I worked both at my own business and paid jobs from home and in San Diego to support myself. I had a big event in San Diego for my business that necessitated getting up at 3 am, driving a long distance, stressing about the border crossing, and stressing about the event itself.

    Everything went fine, but two days later I could hardly walk I was so tired. I kept thinking I was coming down with the flu, but it never happened. After a bit of looking on the Internet, I finally decided I was likely having a fibro flare. It went away in less than a week, and I thought nothing more about it until about six months ago.

    I had moved house for the fourth time since moving to Mexico. I had been through the wringer over the previous four years with unbelievable stress. Two banks had at separate times discontinued my ATM card because of general bank fraud here, leaving me stranded without money.

    I witnessed the immediate aftereffects of two cartel hits. I found out one landlord was a gangster who had every unit in my building hooked up to my electric meter. He kidnapped one of my dogs (witnessed by neighbors) and dumped him outside of town.

    After some similar experiences, as well as my car being hit three times without compensation, I was in another house, a little further south. It was arduous getting there because a freelance writing client (the primary line of work I had settled on to supplement my own business) had left for Europe for six weeks without paying her bill–thousands of dollars I needed to move.

    Then I come to find out that at this place, the property manager has been cooking the books on the rent and stealing from the landlady, who in turn, wants to kill me and take all my belongings–apparently a common practice of hers. (If you’re tempted to think I’m making this up, live for a while in Baja.)

    I spent two weeks walking around with a knife on my belt, my Rottweiler, who BTW, protected me from an intruder in the middle of the night, always at my side. I had to pay $500 to bribe the guard to open the gate to let me out with my moving truck, my entire house packed overnight, knowing I had to go. I had the night duty officer at the consulate on speed dial.

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    I get to the new house, the one I’m in now, and I’m working like a dog writing web content remotely to catch up with the $500 bribe money and pay my new rent. The LL is cool, understanding what happened, I’m settling in, walking my dogs on the beach every morning, commending myself for surviving the last half-decade, and finally finding a nice place to live, like there’s some sort of karmic justice in the world.

    And wham… I wake up one day, and it’s like I’ve been hit by a truck in my sleep. I can hardly walk, every joint in my body is on fire, and I’m overwhelmed with fatigue. This sort of ebbs after a month or so until I trip over a piece of PVC pipe lying on a restaurant patio and fall on both knees, one of which has had surgery for arthritis. Back with the pain… again…

    I have finally only recently recovered from the pain of that fall, but I am left with crushing fatigue. I am grateful every day I can work from home as a writer, but I have put my other biz on hiatus and become a hermit with my social life. I have to believe that my fibromyalgia is primarily stressinduced (I could probably list 20 more things like the ones above), but there are clearly physical triggers as well. I wonder too if my arthritis didn’t predispose me somehow to it, or even the knee surgery I had to treat it.

    There was also an aspect of stress/adrenaline keeping my fibro at bay when I basically couldn’t afford to be disabled and then my body kind of relinquishing when I could finally rest. I am menopausal, and I’m sure my thyroid/adrenal system is shot. I probably have some PTSD too from chronic fear over the last few years.

    My weight has gone up between everything I have related above. I have tried to get Obamacare, but the system says I don’t exist, after numerous initiations setting up an account. It’s probably because I haven’t used a credit card in years, so my identity can’t be verified. The last time my ATM card failed, it took four tries before a bank could verify my identity to get a new one. It finally became more stressful trying to get health insurance than having the insurance would have been worth it.

    I can’t untangle what’s what, so I try to treat the common factors by reducing stress, eating as healthily as I can, reducing alcohol and caffeine, and getting a good night’s sleep. I take a tiny amount of tramadol, which is available OTC here, thank God, as well naproxen and Tylenol for pain. Occasionally I take a small dose of Valium to knock myself out at night when I really need to sleep, which I don’t always do well, in spite of my fatigue.

    I have stopped giving a flying flip what anyone thinks of me at this point, including family and friends who just “hmm hmm” me if I try to explain either my fibro or the circumstances that seem to have precipitated it.

    If I could be granted a magical genie’s wish, I think I’d go back in time to make a million different choices to erase the physical and mental stresses that led to where I am today. The philosopher in me likes to think sometimes that I’ve been led down this path to make me a better writer or fulfill some other grand plan, but then I remember what it was like to run or have any sort of a normal life, and I don’t know. I don’t know if I would trade a Nobel Prize for this condition.

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  • Stress that Causes the Hypothalamus may lead to Fibromyalgia

    Stress that Causes the Hypothalamus may lead to Fibromyalgia

    Fibromyalgia is primarily a neurological brain disorder. It is seven times more likely to strike women than men, and it doesn’t matter what nationality you are. The hypothalamus part of the brain acts as a circuit breaker/fuse box for the rest of the brain and body. It’s like the battery for the entire body.

    There are several things that typically cause Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to manifest, but basically high amounts of stress are what cause the hypothalamus to blow its fuse, creating a host of neurological problems, like hormone imbalances, increased pain sensitivity, fatigue, and “brain fog“.

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    Essentially, you’ve got a dead battery that won’t hold a charge, which is why so many people experience debilitating fatigue. The blown fuse can happen in an instant, and you get no say in if or when it happens.

    The hypothalamus has done a system-wide “shutting down” and tried to reboot, in an effort to protect your body and brain from further stress and damage. Like when you turn off your computer and restart it because using Ctrl +Alt +Delete hasn’t worked. Only, by doing this, the brain is permanently altered, like a computer virus that can’t be repaired.

    A person can quite literally be fine one day and wake up the next morning feeling so completely different, and your entire life has changed because your brain no longer functions the way it used to. Many Fibro/CFS patients can pinpoint the exact day/week/month everything changed for them. The most common “triggers” fibromyalgia patients report are:

    a virus/illness or a prolonged decrease in the immune system
    Lime’s Disease, Epstein Bar Virus, Mono are often associated with the development of Fibromyalgia and CFS symptoms. etc.

    •a sudden traumatic event
    A house fire, abusive situations, physical attacks, etc. Similar to PTSD, or Dissociation disorders, the brain is trying to cope and process the additional shock and stress, triggering the hypothalamus to “protect” the rest of the brain by flipping a switch.

    •an accident
    Car accidents, drowning, severe falling, etc. can cause the hypothalamus to be trying to “protect” by flipping the switch.

    •medical or dental surgery
    Any time you have surgery, it puts the body under huge increases in stress, because cutting into your body sends the brain “we are under attack!” signals.

    •pregnancy
    Because of the drastic hormonal shifts, joint stress, depleted vitamins and minerals, and the physical trauma of the birth process, pregnancy creates so much stress that for whatever reason the mother’s body just can’t handle it. Fibromyalgia develops during pregnancy or soon after birth. For many women, their Fibromyalgia symptoms and Chronic Fatigue are ignored as simple “hormone shifts” or ” new mommy fatigue”, when in fact her body will never really readjust back to normal.

    • high-pressure lifestyles/stressful jobs/major anxiety
    Workaholics, or people who don’t take enough time off, or just can’t relax and rest. In school-age students, the stress of studies, trying to get good grades, fears of the future, or even too many activities can cause an abundance of stress the body can’t handle.

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    For some adults, this means they get sick in the form of common things like high blood pressure, heart attacks, or stroke. Others can develop Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or other random “stress-related” illnesses.

    Many people are able to live completely normal, energetic, and happy lives BEFORE these stressful, triggering events. Any of these things can cause the hypothalamus fuse to blow like a light bulb that goes out. Once that fuse blows, basically your “brain is broken“. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or what gender.

    Even children and teenagers can (and do) develop Fibro and CFS, especially if they have had an accident, undergone serious trauma, or had to have surgery. Being young doesn’t automatically mean someone is healthy, even if they “look healthy”.

    This can happen to anyone, at any time, and once it does, there is no way to change that. You can’t just flip the switch back to fix it. The hypothalamus begins sending the wrong signals to the rest of the brain and to the nerves, causing the super sensitive fascia, painful joints and muscles, sensitivity to touch, and intolerance to certain foods and weather changes, causing thyroid and metabolic changes, and cognitive disruptions.

    Ironically, the brain’s fuse box blows in an effort to protect your brain and body from further damage because of the prolonged stress you have already been under. This is the chief reason why so many Fibromyalgia patients experience a “Flair Up” of pain and other symptoms when they are under high amounts of additional life stress, like family conflict or having to pack and move. Things like exercise and many mundane physical activities are just too stressful for an already constantly stressed out body, so these things cause a flair-up of symptoms.

    The body is already so stressed out from whatever life has thrown at you and being in pain 24/7 that you just can’t handle it anymore. The “Flare Up” will force you to slow down and rest, even when you have things you need to do. This is why a Fibro/CFS patient can feel okay enough to go out and do things one day (feeling “normal”) and be utterly exhausted for the days or weeks after, in a “Flair up“.

    Because Fibromyalgia is so physically debilitating, in this way your body is forcing you to rest and slow down, so it can make an effort to heal itself and relax. This is why people with Fibro need to take steps to simplify their life and be as stressfree as possible.

    Medicine and Science is just now figuring this out, and it might take another couple of decades for them to agree on a treatment plan that will actually cure the hypothalamus and flip the switch back on.

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  • Fibromyalgia Diagnosis gives me new SUCKINESS

    Fibromyalgia Diagnosis gives me new SUCKINESS

    As everyone else said, it does suck, but how it feels to live with chronic illness varies as much as people vary. People react to their new limitations, lifestyle, and the overall new “suckiness” of their life differently, based on personality, previous experiences, support network, mental health, and a million other variables.

    I, for example, handle it really well. I’m 100% disabled. My autonomic nervous system doesn’t work properly which causes heart rate and blood pressure abnormalities, frequent fainting, inability to stay on my feet for more than a few minutes at a time, body temperature variations, inability to digest food normally, and a ton of other whacky symptoms. I also have fibromyalgia and migraines that can last for days on end.

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    Small, everyday activities that most people take for granted I have to plan in advance – things like getting dressed, taking a shower, or making food take planning, setting up workarounds, and recovery time.

    Over time I have outfitted my apartment to be more convenient for me…placed furniture in such places so that no matter where I am I have something to grab on to, make sure there is always a seat within reach, put down extra rugs for padding if/when I fall, outfitted my shower and bathroom with seats and handles, etc.

    I live alone, so these precautions are necessary. I am always thinking ahead about what I might need or what problems might come up. Right now I only need a wheelchair part-time, but what if I become constrained to it full time, how will I need to change my living arrangements? Am I prepared for that? How hard will it be? Should I start some early preparations now, just in case? I want to make a certain meal for dinner.

    Can I stand long enough to prepare it? Is there any way I can split up the preparation to make it easier? Can I do part of the prep the day before and freeze it so I don’t have to do it all at once? Stuff like that.

    Notice my answer focuses on action more than on feeling. That’s because that’s how I am. I’m not an emotional person. I don’t get caught up in the touchy-feely stuff and I don’t get upset that I’m sick. Shit happens.

    There’s nothing I can do about it so I don’t see the point in being upset about it. I want a doctor that will fix me, not one that will give me sympathy or tell me it’s going to be okay. As I said, everyone reacts differently.

    Many people with chronic illness, on top of all the things I’ve listed, struggle with anxiety and depression because it is hard to keep dealing with all these stupid days today struggles when you’re looking down the road of the rest of your life, years, and years down the line, and realizing it’s not going to get any better, it’s not going to change, that this is it, this is your life now.

    Depression and/or anxiety can make getting out of bed hard for someone without additional health problems, let alone in someone who is disabled for other reasons as well. For me, at least, I’m not sad about it, I’m just busy. I used to be busy working. Now I’m busy being sick – constantly.

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  • In my Experience, Fibromyalgia Pain Can Happen in any Part of your Body.

    In my Experience, Fibromyalgia Pain Can Happen in any Part of your Body.

    I’ve had it for about 29 years now. In a word—-Pain. Never-ending, constant pain. Your shoulder will suddenly start to hurt, which can last for a few seconds to days. That can happen in any part of your body. When it quits, it will start in some other place, again for only a few seconds to days.

    One day I woke up, got up to go to the bathroom, and fell on my knees with horrible pain in both groins. I had to crawl to the bathroom. It felt as though I had sprained or tore both groin muscles, was that way for a week. I couldn’t go to work. All of a sudden it stopped.

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    It causes brain fog—forgetting things that used to be just automatic, sleep disturbances, your brain just will not shut up. You do stuff like put milk in the cabinet and cereal in the fridge, your wallet in the freezer, Go into the bathroom to pee, and all of a sudden you are standing in the tub, fully clothed with your watch and glasses on, frequently wonder if you have Alzheimer’s or dementia—-you test normal on all tests. The one that needs to be done is called the Stroop test. It actually takes us twice as long as “normals” to process stuff in our brains.

    You can frequently get an incredibly intense itch—-anywhere, on me, usually my thumb or any finger or palm of my hand. And I do mean intense, To the point, you are screaming and wanting to run out into the street pulling your hair off and ripping your clothes off.

    You need to put immense pressure, to the point of pain on the spot to get a little relief. It can last several very long, excruciating minutes to about 30. It seems days. I’ve put all sorts of stuff on it and taken Benadryl or anything else I can get my hands on. ( still do not know what has worked, if anything.

    Your whole body can ache, like the horrible flu. You feel tired—-beyond belief. You feel so tired you are scared to fall asleep because you are too tired to breathe. You feel like you just won’t wake up because you won’t be able to continue breathing in your sleep. There develop tender points on your body. certain areas that when touched are very painful.

    My husband would bend over, place his hands on my knees and give me a kiss. Did it for years, all of a sudden, it started hurting, to the point I just wanted to haul off and slap him! He had to stop doing it, even though he was not applying that much pressure. There are more—-flare-ups, you are worthless when they happen. I think this is enough—-in short—-you do not want this!!

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  • I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by a Physiatrist who told me that he couldn’t help me.

    I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by a Physiatrist who told me that he couldn’t help me.

    I’ve had fibromyalgia since the 1980s. It came on gradually, with a lot of muscle pain. I knew something was wrong and had a course of physical therapy, and started working out, which put me at about 95% of normal. Then I was in a car accident, which caused a fibromyalgia flare.

    I had a nerve pinch from my neck down my arm, which was a 7 + on the pain scale and lasted a full month. That’s when I was diagnosed, by a physiatrist who told me he couldn’t help me. I have had times when I was in so much pain I couldn’t walk. Other times my feet are fine, but my glutes hurt so much I can’t move. Or my neck is locked up.

    My shoulders feel like bone plates, the muscles are so tight. I have a trigger point in my back that catches me when I’m dehydrated. It feels like a searing hot knife in my back so that I cry out loud. At least I know I need a glass of water!

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    But the worst is fatigue. I have days when I can’t think. I can’t even process what I’m reading. In those days I watch videos. I watch fixer-uppers, soothing scrolls through gorgeous houses, or animal and nature movies.

    I sit in my recliner with my computer on my lap and go away somewhere peaceful. That’s the only thing that I can do. I have many days when I can’t process numbers. It’s like my brain locks up. Try doing your taxes then!

    You have to learn to pace yourself. You can’t do any one thing for more than 2 hours. You can’t stay in any one position for more than 2 hours. Then you should completely change what you’re doing. I have to pay a lot of attention to ergonomics. I am short, and I always head for the small chair that’s low to the ground.

    A tall, armless chair is torture, nowhere to take the pressure off the weight of my shoulders. I carry a folding footstool when I know I’ll be sitting for a long time. At the movies, I sit in the front row middle where I can prop my feet on the bars in front of me. At home, I have a footstool at the dining table, my desk, and my drafting table.

    I buy fabulously expensive office chairs that are multi-adjustable so that I can at least be halfway comfortable at home. I have a massage chair in my bedroom, and a Thera cane draped over my recliner.

    I’m retired and my husband is working. We have only one car, so if I need the car for anything, I have to get up 2 hours earlier than normal, take him to work, then run my errands, and pick him up at the end of the day.

    A car day takes me a week or more to get over. The day after a car day I will sit with my computer and do nothing else. I have to plan on that. People wonder why I don’t run around doing endless fun stuff or shopping or whatever. I can’t.

    Some of my relatives think I’m just a hypochondriac. They don’t believe I’m sick because I look normal. Believe me, I’m not at all normal. I wish I could work, go places, and have a life. Oh, one last thing: I have to consider everything I put into my mouth. This disease is only managed by diet.

    I’ve given up anything with sugar in it, anything with grains in it, all processed food, all carbs except fresh fruit, which I eat as a meal by itself. It is very hard to have a social life – people serve baked goods on every social occasion. I’ve learned to bring my own food and ignore what’s on offer. When I get tired of that and ignore my own rules, I always suffer.

    My muscles feel all ropey and knotty, and they are always sore, somewhere or another. I don’t have the skin pain others describe, but ever since I had an osteopathic manipulation, I can do a stretch and it will release something somewhere, causing spontaneous muscle spasms that I can’t control.

    My husband can gauge my level of fibromyalgia that day by flicking his fingers at me. If I’m having a bad day, my head shakes uncontrollably.

    If you want to avoid this, keep yourself healthy. Stay active, and eat healthily; get off sugar and processed foods.

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