Thoughts on My Life

a walk in our shoes 08 march 2014 What is Fibromyalgia? I could go on and on, explaining to you  the clinical definition  of this awful chronic pain condition that we live with on a daily basis, but in truth, that won't help you understand what it is like to actually  live  with the condition.  Suddenly, we wake up one morning, and something doesn't seem right. We feel different, stepping out of bed is suddenly extremely  difficult due to the stiffness we're feeling all over our bodies. It almost feels like you've come down with a case of the flu, your whole entire body aches. If it seems like the flu, maybe that's what it is, so you wait a few weeks, perhaps visiting your doctor to get an antibiotic.  But the pain doesn't disappear.    So if it isn't the flu, what is it? You see doctors, who end up referring you to an terrific amount of specialists, who in turn run a battery of highly specialized tests to try and pinpoint what in the world