I'm sure whenever anyone hears you have fibromyalgia each person has a suggestion for you: acupuncture, chiropractors, cupping, Reiki, light therapy, trigger point injections, dance naked under the harvest moon while dancing to " I Will Survive." Maybe the last one was a stretch...I was wearing socks. My point is everyone means well but it is extremely expensive, time consuming, and disappointing when I try the various therapeutic suggestions. I have flown places, been poked prodded and had so many needles in me I know what a pushpin feels like. As an eternal optimist I always feel let down when the therapy doesn't work or they say that it "usually " works but since I have fibro my body takes longer for treatments = $$ = :(
Living in a basement, inactive, for several years I gained over 50 pounds. I'm sure those of you suffering from FM (from here on in the blog fibromyalgia will be referred to as this: fibromyalgia) can attest you are often in too much pain to eat, so I would often take the easy route and have easy food = fatty processed foods. Again, people told me, "Go gluten free", "don't eat meat," "you need more animal protein ", etc. so I chose something that felt right for me. I've dropped 46 pounds and feel happy with myself...did it cure anything? No. But I feel good about myself. I bought a dress right before the onset of my headache. I never wore it because I started to gain the weight and didn't have an occasion to wear the dress ( I bought it for work and church but it often has been too painful to attend church). So my goal as I embarked on my diet at the end of April was that I wanted to fit into my dress by my birthday. Well, yesterday I tried it on and...YES it fits!
I may not have found the answer to my suffering but I did find something that makes me feel good about myself. As I said yesterday, we have a situation that's rough, find things in your life that will make you feel good about yourself. It makes a world of difference -- and it's cheaper than snake-oil!
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