Re: Just a LITTLE rant!

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In a message dated 4/10/2008 10:58:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

ladybug75901@... writes:

Fibromyalgia cannot be cured by exercise, yoga, or anything else. Ask them

to read some information on it. If they don't want to read it and believe it,

then you are wasting your time.

Thats the same thing my family doctor said... " if u eat right, get a good

nites sleep, and exercise " then your fibro will be magically cured....Wish that

was the case, but I do all those things and am still in pain!

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Hi Gretchen - Some people have that all or nothing thinking. First, they didn't

believe you were sick. Now, they do, and they want to fix you. My suggestion

is to let it go in one ear and out the other. Otherwise, you'll drive yourself

nuts. Take care.

Jeanne in WI

P.S. My MIL used to say to me all the time, " you just need to get out more, go

for walks. " Now she's stopped.

Hi all... I hope you all are having a low pain day....I have had one of the

worst fibro days I have ever had! Pain and fatigue and horrible fog and when my

daugther touched me for any reason, I would cry for 15 min straight!! Have kind

of a retorical question... How come when people know your hurting but you don't

have a diagnosis, they think your lazy, or crazy, or just plain depressed and we

all know they don't understand... but, when they know you have a diagnosis, they

Have all sorts of ways to cure yourself like everyones a dr! I am so sick of

it! These family members who called me lazy and worthless for

years, now have fibro cure alls for everyone with this condition! Like Tai

Chi, or Yoga! I am not saying those things might not work for some people,

just that everyones a DR! And sometimes people act more like your dr than your

own dr does!!!!! thanks for listening to my rant!.... Gretchen

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Gretchen, it is because they do not have any idea what fibromaygia is and they

cannot live in our bodies for a day. Many still tend to believe it is laziness

and imagination. All they can relate to is when they feel " tired " or have some

simple muscle aches. So, they automatically think that " it can't be that

bad " .... you know the routine. They tend not to believe something they cannot

see on a blood test, an x-ray or any other form of proof.

If they want to know what it is really like, tell them to go to a gym and work

out for 2 hours, then go back with their aching muscles and exhaustion and work

out again that same day two more times. Then tell them to not sleep for about 5

days. That is how fibro feels to us.

I promise you if they did those things, they might begin to know how we feel

on one of our " normal " days.

Fibromyalgia cannot be cured by exercise, yoga, or anything else. Ask them to

read some information on it. If they don't want to read it and believe it, then

you are wasting your time.

hugs,

Debra V.

rorasmom rorasmom@...> wrote:

Hi all... I hope you all are having a low pain day....I have had one

of the worst fibro days I have ever had! Pain and fatigue and horrible

fog and when my daugther touched me for any reason, I would cry for 15

min straight!! Have kind of a retorical question... How come when

people know your hurting but you don't have a diagnosis, they think

your lazy, or crazy, or just plain depressed and we all know they

don't understand... but, when they know you have a diagnosis, they

Have all sorts of ways to cure yourself like everyones a dr! I am so

sick of it! These family members who called me lazy and worthless for

years, now have fibro cure alls for everyone with this condition!

Like Tai Chi, or Yoga! I am not saying those things might not work

for some people, just that everyones a DR! And sometimes people act

more like your dr than your own dr does!!!!! thanks for listening to

my rant!.... Gretchen

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