Waltja Center for Healing Arts

Fibromyalgia

This is my story of how I developed severe and debilitating pain in strange places for no apparent reason. How I was beset with tiredness, depression and fatigue, loss of brain power and painful nodules in my joints and muscles, fascia and skin. This is my story about how I was diagnosed.... What tests I underwent to rule out other possibilities such as adrenal exhaustion, Rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue... and how I finally started to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and figured out how to get rid of the terrible 'fibromyalgia'. I ask the question how many other people could be helped by my experience?

If you have suddenly been feeling poorly after undergoing a drastic procedure or cancer treatment and have the classic sore spots to diagnosing fibromyalgia, you may want to hear my story before resigning yourself to a life of misery.

I was not willing to just accept that one day I was fine, although coping with the after effects of cancer treatment, and then literally the next day felt terrible pains pulsing in various random places in my body. Why was I OK then suddenly experiencing phantom random unrelated pains and migrations of pains along strange lines that did not follow nerves and muscle tissue lines? Why was I exhausted and not recovering? Why did I feel as though I had run a marathon and yet could not rest my body?