Share my Story: NFA Member Stories
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One Long Journey With Fibromyalgia
My Long Journey By: Candy Bashore My long journey with Fibromyalgia started 29 years ago. I was 27 and had endured 3 surgeries in the span of 4 months. I had a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old, and my last [...]
Young And Different to Be So Young
Young! By: Emily Hope My story is a little different than others mainly because I’m so young, so here it goes. When I was only 5, I began to notice my fingers were bigger than normal and noticed my [...]
Wired so Weird
Wired! By: Kathleen Kerry Wired so Weird. At about age 9, I experienced strong sudden pain in my chest. After seeing a couple of specialists, I was told by the pediatrician that it was probably growing pains. This pattern [...]
Injury on the Job, Developed Fibromyalgia
By: Bobbie Sanders I worked for EDD as a key data operator and was injured on the job. I had to have rotary cuff surgery due to being misdiagnosed after surgery. I woke up in severe pain and after [...]
Fibro Warrior
By: Amy Stewart I have been suffering with this illness for 2 yrs now. Even though I have good and bad days and not to mention all the aches and pains and the awful depression you experience seems like [...]
A Trip Down Fibro Lane
By: Carol Barendregt I was diagnosed in 2002 but I had pain way before I got the diagnosis. At that time most doctors just thought it was a mental disorder. I was fortunate enough to have a doctor who [...]
A New Restart – pain and relationship
By: Jane Avellino I was diagnosed in 2002 by my general physician, who was a D.O. And for a few years tried to cure my mostly back pain, and other painful problems that just wouldn’t get better. I was [...]
Fibromyalgia or just severe growing pains?
By: Rosemary Stambaugh Is it Fibromyalgia? As a child my leg aches became increasingly painful. I did manage to grow 5'7 and 1/4". It was a hard journey, and I was sensitive to foods, stomachaches and nausea. When spending [...]
My Ancestors My Family And Fibromyalgia
By Mary Vienneau Two of my ancestors had Fibromyalgia in the 1800s. I had 3 surgeries and Mononucleosis before symptoms started. Mono never went away, then started having pains and extreme fatigue, 24 hrs. a day. I was 45 [...]
