Fibromyalgia treatments

I was a Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferer for 13 years before I reached the point of being 90% better than I was when the illness took hold of my body.

Fibromyalgia is one of the worst afflictions that can occur, at any age and at anytime.

CFS or Fibromyalgia is so debilitating that it is assigned the same disability rating that is given to heart disease patients.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia is likely to become the most important influence in your life if you let it. You may find that you will find out who your real friends are, and who really cares. Many of those whom you have assumed were friends will be turning away from you as your illness progresses.

There is no way to explain the way you feel to people who have not experienced it either directly, or by researching and having a particular medical interest in the area. Unless you educate them they will not understand the very real pain you are feeling. If you did not know the devastating pain and suffering that Fibromyalgia and CFS can bring what would your reaction be to someone else developing these bizarre symptoms?

No one knows what the root cause of Fibromyalgia is, but it is likely that you may have had a viral or bacterial infection, or experienced a traumatic accident. Doctors have no actual test for Fibromyalgia and can't give you an adequate diagnosis so you may be referred to a psychologist for analysis as someone suffering from a depressive incident.

What can you do to help yourself and educate your friends?

Learn all there is to know about your condition.

Focus on yourself and what you can do to get better and there is a lot. Do not dwell over the people .you thought were friends that are not around now. There are those who will not stand by you, some are what we term fair-weather friends. They are usually activity based friends that were your friends because of your common interest in a certain activities either sport or work.

If the activity ends because of your illness then unfortunately so can the friendship. When you have taken charge of your life and decided to learn how to treat Fibromyalgia then you can resume the activity and benefit because you know there is not a deep relationship there.

When you have found the strength to learn what others know and defeat your Fibromyalgia and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that has been plaguing you, then you can resume the active life you deserve.

The pain of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be frightening, depressing and can give you the feelings of fear, loneliness, isolation, panic and anxiety.

These feelings can create a fear of being rejected by those around you even when there is no evidence of this happening. You begin feeling down because who wants to be around someone who is like this, and the feeling is compounded by those activity friends who no longer come by.

This is a normal reaction since our self esteem is in great part based on what others think of us.

When our health is poor we begin doing less, and generally interacting or talking less, and our self esteem plummets along with our health.

When you are worried about the future it feels like uncertainty is everywhere and you won.

Is there any chance that I will get better?
What will happen if I never get in better will it continue to get worse?
Is this going to last forever?

You ask yourself these questions every day. You begin to experience life as a shadow feeling like it is just not all there. Your hopes and dreams for the future seem to have been destroyed.

The feelings of anger at Fibromyalgia and the ever present Chronic Fatigue is very common emotion

You wonder why is it happening to me?
What caused it to happen now of all times I have a family to take care of?
Did I do something to deserve this?

Feeling this anger just further drives those close to us even further away. The answer to the anger is taking control of your life and doing something positive to help yourself there are many things you can do to get better. Honestly it happened to me I have been there and I have felt the same way, but there is an escape you can heal yourself just get the knowledge. Look at the book and learn what you need to know from it. The author gives your 8 weeks to try the methods and feel better and you really CAN feel better in less than the 8 weeks. The way to over come the anger fear pain and depression is to educate yourself and take charge of your life.

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