WOW! Where to start!!

I have had fibro since the mid to late 80's. But back then, as now, there was no concrete diagnosis. I had had a terrible flu, that made me very ill for about 6 months. It never seemed to go away. My doctor told me I had something new, called Fibromyalgia, and that there were no blood tests, x-rays, diagnostic tools, that were definitive in diagnosis. I would have to trust her, that she knew I had it because I had 11 out of 18 tenderpoints. I left the office thinking she was a quack. And never looked back.

Hindsight, being 20/20, I can look back and see many, many points in my life where I did not recover as well as I should have from different flu's, colds. And then in 1991 I had my second child. And I felt like my life force was sucked out of me. I never recouped from that time.

Over the next 20 years I have gotten progressively worse and worse. In 2003 I developed bacterial meningitis. And have gone downhill from there. Up until 2003 I had never had surgery, besides impacted wisdom teeth removed at 18 when I was pregnant with my first child. Maybe that is when this all started. Who knows.

Since then I have been to many, many doctors, pain clinics, tried many medicines, and to no avail. Right now I am currently on Lyrica and Cymbalta. I try not to take pain medications.

This is my journey, from this day forward, to help me adjust, cure, have better days, or simply plug through each and every day.

Thanks for following... I would love to hear comments...