My Days………..
I've never found it easy talking about my challenges, or days, with Fibromyalgia, IBS and the effect that grief has also had on my life and symptoms. The one thing I would like to say is that Fibromyalgia is so different for everyone, in symptoms and our handling of it. No one size fits all with this one! when I was first diagnosed twenty six years ago, I would collapse with exhaustion, or pain; I could go the whole night without sleeping; I constantly had flu like symptoms; I walked in slow motion and it felt like someone was prodding me with hot spikes; I struggled to get dressed and often slept in what I'd been wearing because I couldn't reach to take it off, or I hadn't got the energy; friends, family and my doctor actually listened; my body would itch for no reason; I managed to catch one virus after another; I fought against it and tried to carry on as if I was ok. And my IBS did not like fibro, or was it the other way around? Have things changed and how? I’m ama...