Fibromyalgia is Real

Fibromyalgia is a real pain condition which affects millions of Americans. For more information on fibromyalgia, please visit our website at www.painfoundation.org.

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[cdavydude]

Why is it that 99% of the people with fibro are woman

[PainFoundation]

@cdavydude Actually, about 80% of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia are women (that doesn't include the people who have yet to be diagnosed with the condition).

Make sure to check out our Spotlight on Fibromyalgia for all of the facts on our website (Click on Learn).

[PainFoundation]

Dear shadows4seen,

Your mom is not alone. Over 6 million Americans have fibromyalgia, plus many more who have not been diagnosed.

The Spotlight on Fibromyalgia section of our website will help you under it a bit better.

Go to our website - Click on Manage Your Pain - and then scroll down to Fibromyalgia.

[Bagbird]

My friend has fibromyalgia. She is always hurting so badly, and she often can't even walk down a hallway without collapsing.

How can people say that's not real?

[shadows4seen]

my mum has this condition and she is always tired please help me.

[charliebelson]

I too suffer from fibromyalgia and have for so many years. Sometimes the pain is too much to bear and I can’t imagine going on another day feeling this way. But then I found a comforting scripture in the Bible. Revelation 21:4 says “And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” This is a promise from Jehovah God. This helps me cope day by day.

[Cissy2cute]

@rebafanatic16 - Me too! My former life is gone forever. I no longer even know who I am, or was. Suicide has entered my mind many times and NO, anti-depression drugs don't help. With RSD, Fibro and Chronic Fatigue, coupled with extremely bad financial and living situations, I am surprised I am still here. I live for my two young nieces who are 10 and 8 yrs. old. My suicide would probably devastate them, and that has held me back from acting on my thoughts. Otherwise...who knows?

[Cissy2cute]

@rebafanatic16 - I also have both conditions. It started as RSD from a botched surgery (Dr. skewered my sensory radial nerve). RSD crept up my arm until it reached near my collarbone, and that's when everything went ballistic. Every day is a trial and I must push myself to do things, which of course often ends up making it worse. The fatigue is the worst part. It has destroyed my life perhaps more than the pain. I marvel at what I used to do within one day. Now by 2 pm, my day is over. :(

[rebafanatic16]

@ReviewCam probably not the right choice of words. but can certainly seem the most debilitating, and I've certainly wished i was dead a time or two because of it.

[rebafanatic16]

I've had chronic pain since I was 9, I am now 20. It started out as something they told me was reflex sympathetic dystrophy, but as of the last five years or so they also think I have fibromyalgia. Always tired, always in pain, and there is no relief. I've found nothing that helps. Every med that promised hope has failed. my pain doctor basically said there is nothing she can do for me and there is no need for her to see me anymore. I'm beginning to doubt there is even hope anymore

[ReviewCam]

please. "the most deadly"?????

[ValerieLumley]

I am a recovered fibromyalgic who left the care of the medical profession to discover the cause and cure without drugs and am living proof that you can cure this horrific illness and take back your life. Please, do not be discouraged by failed hope.  Symptoms are mistaken as the cause, and treatment that help do not cure. Keep going!!!

Valerie Lumley, Recovered Fibromyalgic and author of

"Curing Chronic Fibromyalgia - Choosing What Works"