Share My Story: NFA Member Stories
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Finally Someone to Care
By: Lauryn East Will somebody care? In February of 2014 I was t-boned at an intersection by a texting driver. For nearly three years, I spent about 10 hours a month going back and forth between doctors’ offices and [...]
A Wonderful Life Sentence
Turning Lemons into Lemonade By: Jennifer Miles One of life's biggest lemons for me, which has allowed me to make tons of lemonade out of it would have to be… given a wonderful life sentence of an incurable disease! [...]
Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Ann’s Journey
Diagnosed!! By Sabrina Ann Hawkins: I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (FM) in 2015. My journey has been very long and tiring. I will make my story short. It began in November of 2014. I was having all over nerve [...]
Pain Management for Fibromyalgia
Stop the Pain By: Paula Ehmer In my 40's I started to experience headaches and muscle spasms in my sides that would take my breath away and I would get close to blacking out. I finally went to the [...]
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 [...]