Starting A New Year

Today I woke up feeling better than I have been feeling the past few weeks. Most people thinks that Fibromyalgia is all in your head, well if you are one of those people here is a little background about Fibromyalgia.  Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points — places on your body where slight pressure causes pain. Fibromyalgia occurs in about 2 percent of the population in the United States. Women are much more likely to develop the disorder than are men, and the risk of fibromyalgia increases with age. Fibromyalgia symptoms often begin after a physical or emotional trauma, but in many cases there appears to be no triggering event. This being said the next time someone tells you that they have Fibromyalgia think about the day to day pain they go through. I will be 27 years old in March and I have suffered from it for 5 years. Some days the pain is so bad I can't get out of bed and somedays I feel great. I take medication for depression due to the fact that there is no cure for Fibro. I have been on several medications for fibro and some of them of have worked, but only for a short while and the symptoms come back. Imagine trying to raise two children under the age of six and work a full time job and your in pain the whole time. This is my goal to beat Fibro before it beats me this year.