Marianne has had three major spinal surgeries for osteoarthritis over the past five years and is waiting for a fourth. She developed fibromyalgia in 2015 after her first major surgery as the stress was too much for her body and mind to cope with the recovery. Marianne left her career as a Project Manager five months ago due to ill health and threw herself into running a global online Facebook support group, called "Sharing Myself with Fibromyalgia".
