My Fibro Rant

So lets start......

If your reading this then no doubt you've already heard of it, either you are a Fibro Warrior yourself or you know someone who is. I wrote this for all those who are looking for a way of understanding this and hopefully this book will help.

Somewhere in our Nervous System a switch has defaulted, it is a jammed lever triggering permanent pain, to some its only in certain areas, for others like me it is full body.

I wrote this book as a rant. It is a rant about all aspects of Fibromyalgia, physical, mental and every day struggles for those with and without it. A multi-sided view.

I wanted to give fellow sufferers hope and relief that they are not alone. I want to reach out and raise awareness, something that is hugely important when dealing with an invisible illness.

Some of you may think this book doesn't make sense, But I didn't write this to make sense, Fibro doesn't make sense. I wrote this to give insight into a fibro sufferer and their life. There is still so much unknown and Fibro is unpredictable and all over the place. There is no story line, this is my Fibro Rant, my argument with Fibro and my way of battling this invisible illness. And believe me I have some pretty big boxing gloves.

For those of you who suffer with Fibro I wrote this to show not alone and that you can get through it, and for those of you who don't - I wrote this so you can read the things we struggle to say. Whether you just want to learn about it or whether you know someone who is a Fibro Warrior and want to understand what there battling, please use this as knowledge to help them.....as you never know one day you may be a warrior yourself.

Now let the Rant commence .......... :)

My Story-

I have Chronic Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue for 4 years now. From the beginning my condition grew worse very rapidly. I deteriorated just as quick as doctors were increasing my pills, the depression was an experience I never thought was possible and the pain was paralyzing me from waist down making me bed bound. I felt like I was unable to work and be a mum. I had to give up my Law Degree and change my lifestyle I loved.

I am a 32 year old mum living alone with my 8 year old daughter, working a full time job and was building a career I was enjoying. The thoughts in my head were to cause pain to myself to change the pain I was feeling everyday. I couldn't understand what was going on. At night my brain would be in a world of its own, I would close my eyes but my brain would still be talking and working and responding to my daily life activities and pain that was smothering my entire body. Doctors had told me that I needed to cut down my stress in my life time and time again, but for me stress was part of everyone's life, really how big of a difference could stress be making to me.........a lot!!

I tried remedies and pain relief and read everything online, but the moment I decided to make changes to things in my life that made me feel stress, the change in my health was miraculous.

Please don't get me wrong, I am certainly not telling everyone to make life changes or do what I did - but you do have to be honest with yourself.

I loved my job and studying my degree, but as helpful as the university was I couldn't keep up due to the Chronic Fatigue and with this degree extensions were not available. So I had to give it up. That still wasn't enough though and my doctors kept telling me to stop working – I didn't want to, mentally it was a social relief, I love working ...... and I still do now.

I had 3 cats I loved dearly, but coming home to them every day I couldn't look after them and clean the house after a full days work. And then when I was ill and lying in bed for 3 days a week I was panicking as I couldn't look after them again. When I was mobile but still having a flare up I would have lack of balance and they were very lovable cats who enjoyed being at my feet, unfortunately this led to some accidents which involved me falling down the stairs.