The Fibromyalgia Friends on Acceptance

That sure doesn't mean we should ever stop looking for better ways to cope though. It's a learning process that never stops.

Rosee:

I used to go into very deep depressions that would put me out of commission for long periods of time. I do take an anti-depressant that works for me, and when I feel the "thoughts" creeping in again (yes I still get depressed) I fight them with all my might. Just as Peter said...this too will pass.

I have had fibro for so many years that when I got a final diagnose it was actually a relief. Oh, I got real angry at first that there wasn't a cure, support or medications at that time. I had been told all along that all my aches, pains, moods etc. were all in my head or I was lazy, so I was actually happy to be told my pain had a name.

My doctor feels that I have had fibro since I was around 15 and I didn't have a name for it until I was 35, so all in all I have had fibro for 45 years. When my body first started hurting my father didn't believe me, actually he didn't believe in being sick ever. I would complain of having burning knees that were swollen and red from ironing for hours on end. I also told him about my elbows aching, headaches, growing pains, being so sleepy, all the sorts of things that go along with fibro. But his understanding was that I was just plain well lazy and to get outside and chop more wood. If you were really sick you could work hard and sweat the badness out of your body. So being so young and strong I did manage, or else put up with the abuse my father threw at me. I left home that same year.

Fibro hit me really hard when I was around 19, and that attack put me in bed for three weeks. In those days they called it Transit Rheumatism and the doctor said I was way too young to have it. Never being believed was one of my hardest things to overcome. So you can see why I was relieved to have a name given to me at the age of 35.

Don:

Acceptance took me years. I had it for about 3 years before I really started to come to terms with it. It wasn't till I found the Men

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