How Your Life Has Changed with Fibromyalgia
I was diagnosed back in 2000 for Fibromyalgia. I was 40 years old. I started out with muscle pain in my thighs and it gradually spread everywhere else except my lower legs and lower arms. I was diagnosed with Arthritis back in my early 30's in my hands and knees. Everything else I have, I have spent a lot of money on trying...
View MoreDo you feel like fibromyalgia has changed you as a person?
Yes, the every day stress of trying to get disability and not having an income makes a person kind of mad. I quit my job because the constant stress of not having good co-workers and nothing being done about it added more stress and it made my Fibro flare up. I hurt all the time. I had to get away from there because it was turning me into somebody I am not. When you are trying to get all your medical records together and needing to keep your credit good, but you can't work to pay your bills. It is so frustrating. You about have to be dead to get disability. You get the hopeless rock and a hard place feeling. You keep wondering when it is going to end. You don't want to give up because it takes so dang long to get it if you even get it. When your spouse thinks you can keep going and going but you know better, it makes you angry too.
Has fibro limited your physical activities? How?
I love to dance, bowl, hike, etc. I can't do them anymore because I pay for it later. The things that made me happy, I can't enjoy because I hurt too much. Can't sit and drive sometimes. Can't bend to put on my pants very well. Hurts to sit on the floor. Mine is in my lower back, hips, thighs, upper shoulders, lower neck, and elbows.
