Fibromyalgia Support Group
You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.
7 years ago I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2, finally getting myself under control, with an insulin pump has been a Gosd sent.
29 years ago, I was told my back was in bad shape and if I kept doing what I was doing, I would be in a wheelchair in ten years, 19 years later I am still walking. I stopped working like a man, breaking horses, and working the farm. I went back to school, received my MBA, and taught Real Estate at the local college, until the pain was making it too difficult.
Now a year ago, I had Mri's, xrays, blood work ups, examines, you name it. I think I should have left well enough alone. I havebeen diagnosed with osteoarthritis, stenosis of the neck, spine, and lumbar, buldging disc, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, degenerative disc disease, and a positive ANA test, meaning Lupus mild. In addition, after 40 years of suffering with boils recurring, and at least 10 past doctors could not tell me what it was, I now know it is Hidradentis Suppurativa.
God has blessed me with a sense of humor, and I think it is the only thing that keeps me going. But sometimes, I feel it is too much to bear, but I cannot let my family know how much I really hurt, my mother has started in dimentia, and my husband needs to get a hip replacement, so I feel putting myself on the back burner is for the best. I just cope the best way I know how, through humor. Life can only get better, yeehaw!
Sorry for the long winded whine...just needed to tell someone or just to vent. Thanks for your time.
29 years ago, I was told my back was in bad shape and if I kept doing what I was doing, I would be in a wheelchair in ten years, 19 years later I am still walking. I stopped working like a man, breaking horses, and working the farm. I went back to school, received my MBA, and taught Real Estate at the local college, until the pain was making it too difficult.
Now a year ago, I had Mri's, xrays, blood work ups, examines, you name it. I think I should have left well enough alone. I havebeen diagnosed with osteoarthritis, stenosis of the neck, spine, and lumbar, buldging disc, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, degenerative disc disease, and a positive ANA test, meaning Lupus mild. In addition, after 40 years of suffering with boils recurring, and at least 10 past doctors could not tell me what it was, I now know it is Hidradentis Suppurativa.
God has blessed me with a sense of humor, and I think it is the only thing that keeps me going. But sometimes, I feel it is too much to bear, but I cannot let my family know how much I really hurt, my mother has started in dimentia, and my husband needs to get a hip replacement, so I feel putting myself on the back burner is for the best. I just cope the best way I know how, through humor. Life can only get better, yeehaw!
Sorry for the long winded whine...just needed to tell someone or just to vent. Thanks for your time.
Try to rest up and don't stress over everything.
Okay, yeah, definitely too much, and go ahead and vent away!!! And take some time every day for you. I'm talking from experience as the "back burner" one who back burnered herself right the heck out.
Smiles & hugs
Again thanks for listening. God bless
Hugs,
ELizabeth