HELLO EVERYONE! I'm new to the group.

March 5, 2008

I am 1st trying to figure out how this group stuff works. The Messages,

Post, etc...all the e-mail...please be patient with me, I will figure

it out.I have suffered with different pains for years. In 2003 my hands

began feeling very numb and painful. I was told I had Fibromyalgia. I

didn't even now how to pronounce it. I still call it Fibro .....(bad

word) pooh. In Feb 2007 I was forced to stop working. In April of 2007

I filed for Social Security Disability. Lawyer said it would probably

be a year until I got a hearing. Well, here it is March...I'm waiting.

I have Chronic Pain and Chronic Fatigue not to mention all the other

neat stuff that seemed to come with this illness. Currently I have

become financial drained of all resources and I am scared. I wish this

illness on no one. No one would probably believed they had it...right!

My little sister was just recently diagnosed with it, she has begun to

sample some of what I have been going through for years. I pushed thru

many days of work.....many! None of which were easy. Now I struggle

with everyday activity. I will not let this stop me, but my god,

it..well you know. Sorry to have wrote a book, just excited to share

some of my story with others who can understand.

March 6, 2008

Sherry this is what were here for to write a book if the day brings us to feel

that way, no apology needed. Some get ideas, inspiration, and whatever else

they may find from reading someone else's post, they may call a book, and also u

may get a post back that u find hits the spot to encourage u for that day, a tip

to try ec. Fibro has no pattern, reason, or time. I can only say, I to pushed

through,and I mean pushed, I threw myself into more and more physical things,

work, cleaning, yard work, lifting, bending, and on and on, my husband warned

me, my Rhuemi, though chuckled said she thought I was unbelievable, but when I

had taken a fall,and really hurt my back, sent my whole body into a major flare,

as the yr before had just had to have both shoulders operated on, and was

headed on a drive across country to await my 2nd birth of g.child though could

not even walk, she told me I could not act like this anymore, I needed to slow

down, I needed to give up one of my jobs,

and needed to rest instead of fighting this disease head on!, When I got out to

Ca. instead of resting, visiting, and enjoying my family, I took a job! My

thought was if I keep busy the pain will be pused away, forgot about and etc.

Well here I am, have had to stop work entirely, even tried changing fields from

the healthfield to cust service, and phones. I am no good for anything now. I

have exhausted my body, need a knee replacement when I am old enough, they say I

am to young!! ??? I disagree, and it is just a added pain, and takes away from

one of the enjoys of life walking even though I have been downsized to a block

at a time. So although you don't want to give in to this, you have to have

limitations, and know when to quit, keep trying to exercise, but as for the rest

if your body and mind is saying it is to hard to do it probably is and you

should listen, you may be able to stay more active and hold it abay longer if

doing so. Fighting it I have proven I

could not win, which kills me as all my life I have been a fighter, and nothing

has ever got me down, my independence has been ripped away from me and this

hurts as much as the pain I suffer 24/7. Take Care Sharon

sherrystailwagers wrote: I am 1st trying

to figure out how this group stuff works. The Messages,