Living With Fibro

When you first start to develop Fibromyalgia, you likely will not know what you have. Your doctors likely will not know what you have. In fact, the only one who will know what you have is God himself.

While you are waiting for a diagnosis and you are feeling really awful day in and day out, you will become very frustrated. You will undergo a lot of unneccessary tests. You will have a lot of days where you feel worse and worse than you did the day before.

It is important to keep the faith and not lose hope during this period of the unknown. I thought that I would give you a bit of my background of how I lived with Fibromyalgia before I knew that it was Fibromyalgia. What I went thru, how I felt, and what my doctor had to say about it.

For the first six months that I suffered from Fibromyalgia I felt awful every day. My doctor argued with me that I was making up my symptoms even though I had spent countless nights in the emergency room throwing up so much that I had to be given Compazine. I felt nauseus all the time. I was throwing up all the time. I had a headache all the time. I was dizzy all the time. I had trouble keeping food down all the time. I felt low in energy everytime that I got out of bed. I could barely walk without feeling like I was going to fall over. I felt awful. I took Tylenol for the pain that I was feeling throughout my entire body. Tylenol did nothing for my pain. I took Benadryl for the cough that I had all the time. I took Meclizine all the time for the nausea. I felt like a walking medicine cabinet. My mind was always foggy, and I could not think clearly.

I slowly felt like my life as I had known it was slipping away from me. I had to quit school because I could not concentrate on my lessons. I had to quit teaching Sunday School because I did not have the energy to get down on the floor with the children anymore. I could not walk around the zoo anymore because i did not have the energy. Life as I knew it was changing. And as the medical tests continued and a diagnosis was nowhere in site, I became more and more frustrated.

Almost a year after I first started experiencing symptoms, I finally received the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. The diagnosis changed my life for the better. I knew that Fibromyalgia did not have a cure, and that I would have to find a way to live with it, or I would spend my whole life in bed. That’s when I began researching Fibromyalgia and everything about self treating the symptoms of Fibromyalgia. I couldn’t get my doctor to prescribe Lyrica, the only medication that could possibly help my symptoms, so I ended up treating Fibromyalgia myself at home.

The important thing that I would like everyone who is suffering from Fibromyalgia to know, is that a diagnosis will come, and if you change your lifestyle, it is possible to live a normal life with only a few limitations.

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