Health Matters - Growing Older Everyday

Have you every had one of those terrible days, when you hope you will soon wake up from the nightmare? Mine happened eighteen years ago.

I was sitting on the exam table in a specialist’s office about 30 minutes from my home when he diagnosed me with something I had never hear of before. His sage advice – quit your job and join a support group. Excuse me, my son was a senior in high school and my daughter a junior at college. I had two kids going to pricey Christian schools, quitting my job was not an option. Support group, did such a thing really exist for this? And what in the world was this Fibromyalgia thing he said I had anyway?

I walked out of there with a packet of information, still not sure how to pronounce what I had. I now know it’s a chronic pain disorder with multiple possible symptoms.

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In my mid to late fifties, I struggled with a medical condition that just seemed crazy. No one else had it, so it was hard to explain and sympathy wasn’t given to me. I watched 20/20, one evening in 2011 and saw Kelly Ripa describing exactly what I was feeling. The irritation with sounds that to most people went unnoticed. If I was in a meeting, with someone clicking their pen, I would stop their hand, if I was close enough. Otherwise, I became panicky and wanted to run away, or scream at them, which was socially unacceptable.

What was I to do? I pretty much self-diagnosed myself, but really didn’t know where to go from there. So I got an appointment to see a physician in the head and neck surgery department of my medical group. Honestly, I went there expecting that there was no one in my medical group that knew anything about this, since I had never heard of it.

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Quit Your Job and Join a Support Group

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