Living With Fibro

You feel sick every day of your life. You feel weak, run down, nauseus, and in pain every day of your life. You have been seeing your doctor and specialists on a regular basis. You’ve visited the emergency room too many times to count. You are stressed out, in pain, and suffering day in and day out and no one can seem to figure out why.

At first, I had no idea what I had either. The symptoms I experienced seemed to spring up overnight, and come without warning. The symptoms I originally started to suffer from included fatigue, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. It was the nausea and vomiting 24/7 for almost 6 months that left me feeling completely helpless. I knew something was wrong. I ached all over, I had severe pain in my side, back, neck, stomach, and legs.

I kept pressing my doctor to discover what was wrong with me. I wasted many hours going thru tests that turned up nothing. The doctor even made me consult with a psychiatrist who swore I was crazy and not really experiencing the symptoms that I was most definately experiencing. I went to the psychiatrist. He diagnosed me with bipolar disorder and put me on medication (Depakote). The Depakote actually increased the pain. The pain was depressing me. The more depressed I became, the more I stayed in bed and the more I stayed in bed, the worse the pain became.

Eventually I started pointing to the exact same location where I claimed my pain was doctor visit after doctor visit after doctor visit.  After she had run every test that she could think of, and caused more problems than anyone could imagine, she said that I had Fibromyalgia.

When I first heard the diagnosis Fibromyalgia, I did not know what to think. I had heard about briefly, but I did not know about it. The one thing that I did know however was that it was not curable.

I was scared. I am young and the thought of spending the rest of my life vomiting, nauseus, and in pain was almost too much for me to bare. I was also confused. My doctor and other doctor’s seemed to know very little about Fibromyalgia and how to treat it. They seemed to be guessing what to do and how to do it. They seemed to be taking a guess at what to prescribe, and then they seemed unconcerned when the prescription medication made things worse, I had a bad reaction, or nothing changed.

I began to do research on the Internet. I began to discover that the best medication for Fibromyalgia treatment was no treatment at all. I began to learn that changing my diet, my lifestyle, and other things that I did in my life would make a bigger impact on my Fibromyalgia then the medications that I took. The more research I did, the more at peace I became. I was finally feeling like I could live with Fibromyalgia and still live a normal life.

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