My name is Andrea R Taylor. I'm 76 years old and was diagnosed many years ago with FM. I am a retired Children's Librarian and was a church pipe organist for over 35 years. Both careers required a physically [...]

By: Valeri DeCastris Working with Kristen and Steve Thorsen and others including former Congressman John Porter of Illinois, I helped increase research spending on fibromyalgia syndrome by the National Institutes of Health by $2.1 million in the 1990s. I [...]

By: Vickie Kean I hope this isn’t too long but I wanted folks to hear my story in hopes that it might save someone from having to jump through all the hoops I have over the years…just to get [...]

By: Donna Coff I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 1995, when no one knew what that was! I was involved in a motorcycle accident and at the same time graduating from college, & entering my internship at age 46, [...]

I'm 55, diagnosed with fibromyalgia several years ago. When I was 23, I had my youngest daughter, 2 months after her birth, I got toxic shock syndrome and almost died from it. After recovering from that, I started having [...]

By:  Sarah Warburton For me, fibromyalgia began its official life as a very localized stabbing pain in my spine along with periodic numbness in my arms. In the first place, when the pain began, I was referred to a [...]

Chronic illness is not a gift given to me. It's a curse, a poison that has killed so many parts of me and I'm very angry about it. I might scream, throw things, cry, despair, or just fall apart [...]