- Dr. Shurman
After reading your article about Fibromyalgia, I must say that you are the first doctor or person to hit all of the symptoms right on the head.
Other articles I have read, just skim over the sufffering you feel from FM. I know, because I have FM, and I suffer from day to day. I have all 18 trigger points plus all the rest. My pain gets so bad at times, that I can't even hug my husband, because of the pain (and this year we will be married 40 years). I am a prisoner in my apartment. When I try to go out, the pain gets so bad, I end up going back to the car and go home.
When I talk to people and try to explain to them, what FM is like, they say you don't look sick, "you look just fine". I now tell people, what FM feels like to me. I start with, have you ever had the flu and you hurt all over. That same pain is what FM feels like. The only difference is, the flu will end and the person feels fine. With FM, the same pain never goes away. The worse thing about my FM, is that I can not do the things, I have done before. Like cleaning our apartment, wash dishes, seeing friends, shopping, etc. These jobs are now left up to my husband (he is also disabled from an accident on the job). I would give anything, for just one day to be, PAIN FREE!
Again, thank you Dr. Shurman
(Posted on April 6, 2008, 1:28 pm Mrs. K. McKelvey)
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