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August 14, 2018

Shari: My Story

I'm so glad to have stumbled across this site. It feels good to know that somebody out there understands what I'm going through. I just found out I have fibromyalgia a couple of months ago. Along with this diagnosis, and the numerous doctors and specialists it took to find out, I have been in a lot of pain for the past few years. Along with my fibromyalgia diagnosis, I also found out I have COPD and emphysema. Once I finally knew the reasons for all this pain, especially the daily headaches and severe pain in my neck and shoulders, it was not only scary but a kind of relief.

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My Story: Jennifer Herrera

I began by searching the symptoms I was experiencing online. I then came across other people experiencing similar symptoms and was almost positive that I knew what I was suffering from. The excruciating pain continued, so I found myself in the emergency room many times all to be disappointed because I left the same way I came in, without any answers. All the tests came back negative. This went on for months, until one of the doctors told me I was suffering from fibromyalgia. At…

92 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on June 15, 2016

My Story: Kim Stewart

After 15 years of chronic depression, bipolar depression, and chronic pain illnesses, my primary doctor finally discovered that I was suffering from fibromyalgia. I suffered many migraines and low back and muscle pain most of my life. My life was full of miserable appointments with many specialists, and not one ever had a solution but only said, "it's all in your head!" That's when I knew to seek another opinion. My family doctor did not give up on me and it was the best decision…

125 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on June 8, 2016

My Story: Starla Rich

Fifteen years ago I was a single parent of a young son and I had the energy to go from zero to 60 in a second with no issues at all. I was like the Energizer bunny and found myself working as much as 90 hours in a week in my corporate career. It didn't take long for that to come to a screeching halt. I developed a migraine that simply would not go away! I had suffered with migraines, some level of fatigue, irritable…

101 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on June 2, 2016

My Story: Emily Ullrich

I was reading incessantly, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. When I found a scholarly medical journal about fibromyalgia, I was astonished, 100 pages in, I had EVERY symptom in the book! Literally. I thought maybe I was being biased, so I decided to scroll through to a random page, and if I had the symptom on that page, then I'd believe it. I ended up on a page about Morton’s toe, which a pedicurist had told me earlier that week that…

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My Story: Patricia

I was diagnosed almost 40 years ago. I don't really remember a lot, but there were a lot of appointments. My mom found an article about fibromyalgia, so I took it took it to my doctor. I was lucky to have found a doctor who believed, because at the time fibromyalgia was still being thought of as a hysterical illness. I have had to let my husband do most of the housework, especially vacuuming and dishes. I watch that I don't overdo anything and have…

483 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on October 1, 2015

My Story: Nicole Toth

When I was a baby I was diagnosed with roseola, an infection that causes a fever and rash. During my childhood I had many other illnesses, too, I caught chicken pox multiple times. I was always catching something. At age 24 I had my first child and during my pregnancy I started getting severe pain in my sciatica and hip, but my doctors chalked it up to being pregnant. Two years after my daughter’s birth I was in a minor accident that gave me whiplash…

808 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on July 28, 2015

My Story: Angela Renee Nimmo

I worked as a nurse at a nursing home for about 10 years. Unfortunately I rarely had help lifting sometimes very large patients. I suppose this continuous type of work finally weakened my back. One evening I was rolling a rather heavy patient toward me when something in my lower lumbar region popped. I felt it and heard my back crack. I didn’t think I needed to go to the hospital but the head nurse sent me home with ice. However as the evening progressed,…

771 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on July 23, 2015

My Story: Peter Bacchioni

About 14 years ago when I described my symptoms to my primary physician he suggested I stop complaining. After all, I wasn't getting any younger and he said the discomfort I was describing was attributed to aging – so I should grin and bear it. I did just that for several years, until I found a rheumatologist who ran all sorts of tests and concluded that I had fibromyalgia. I was hoping that my retirement might bring me some relief but instead in some ways…

645 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on June 30, 2015

My Story: Ginny Fankhouser

Thirty years ago, when I was 30 years old I woke up one morning completely numb from head to toe. My husband did not believe me. Two years later in 1987 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist. I now also have cerebellar atrophy, diabetes, high blood pressure, COPD, cirrhosis (not from alcohol – from 20 years of 22 or more medications), arthritis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, Raynaud's syndrome, heart PVCs (44,000 too many per day), basel cell carcinoma, melanoma, etc., etc.

776 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on June 23, 2015

My Story: Paul Roy

I was diagnosed in 2008, but I think I have had fibromyalgia all my life, or at least bits and pieces. I began to notice something was wrong around 2000 – 2001, when I just never felt right. During this time, I lost my dad and got divorced after 23 years of marriage. When I would go to the doctor and tell him I wasn't right, each time he would tell me it must be this or that, but never mentioned fibromyalgia. It went on…

942 found this helpful by NewLifeOutlook Team on May 26, 2015

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