Fibromyalgia....

Introduction

If you’re like many other patients with fibromyalgia, you’ve had a rough road in life up until now. There may have been times when your family and friends didn’t understand how you were feeling and why you couldn’t keep up with the normal pace for housework chores and personal responsibilities. It’s been frustrating.

There were, no doubt, times when you turned down invitations because you weren’t up to all the walking, hiking, shopping, and camping that everyone expected you to do. After all, you know your body’s limitations; knowing that pain and fatigue would follow a seemingly fun excursion to the mall or camping trip was enough negative reinforcement to say no to these types of activities.

You probably have spent time and money on doctor hopping, with little solutions and another bag full of prescription medication that worries you when you think about side effects.

There were probably many nights when you did not get enough sleep, and then many days when you could barely get out of bed in the morning. Your days may have included hours of feeling sad and depressed, experiencing brain fog where you didn’t think clearly, and pain and tenderness almost everywhere in your body. Greeting the new day didn’t seem too exciting during those times and may have almost seemed like you were the main character in the movie, Ground Hog Day, reliving the same day over and over again!

Things change when you get a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and use an alternative health practitioner who considers the whole body and uses natural methods to help you get well.

Your friends and family will start to believe that you haven’t been making up symptoms all along. After all, you were never a hypochondriac! Why couldn’t they believe in you before? The good news is that they believe you now and still want to help you as much as possible. They want to experience you – the whole you – and your total personality back in full force and have wanted to do so for a long time, since the start of your illness. Your family and friends love you and will feel relieved that now there is a strategy that can produce results. They feel grateful that someone finally discovered the reason behind how bad you’ve been feeling for so long and has a plan that works to bring out the real you again.