99 Problems and #Fibromyalgia Is All Of Them

LOTS OF GOOD STUFF IN CHOCOLATE—SUGAR, ANTI-OXIDANTS, ETC!

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Lazy. Crazy. Whiner.
Hypochondriac.
Attention-seeking.
All in your head.  
“Fibromyalgia is just another word for lazy.” yadadarcyyada.com/2013/08/31/fibromylagia-is-just-another-word-for-lazy/ 

And the classic, “But you don’t look sick”.
Feel free to add more.
I think I’ve heard them all…but you never know.

99 Problems and Fibromyalgia (Fibromialgia) is all of them…or at least it makes any problem much much much much worse.

I won’t bore you with all the symptoms:

• Extreme, endless fatigue (I’ve never heard, “everyone gets tired”…sigh).

• Extreme, endless all-over-body-pain 24/7/365 (“everyone has pain, especially as they get older” – how do you presume to know my pain or anyone else’s pain but yours?).

• Dry eyes/mouth.
  

• Hair loss.
  

• IBS (Oh joy, love nothing more than talking about my bowels to doctors/family/friends/strangers/readers…”What did you want to be when you grow up?” “Constipated.”).

  

• Dizziness.
  

• Clumsiness.

• Nausea.
  

• Depression (tough not to be depressed by all this).

• Sleep issues (screw off Alpha waves…

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