What a ridiculously uninformed remark.
I battled fibro symptoms for 9 years. Constant pain, migraines that lasted for months without relief, my joints swelled so badly it would make holding a pen painful, chronic fatigue due to insomnia. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Lyrica caused the right side of my face to collapse like a Bells Palsy seizure. I told my husband to divorce me because I didnt want him shackled to a lifetime as caregiver.
I was not out of shape. 5’8” and 140 lbs after 3 kids, I could still rock a dress and heels. It took years, and thousands in doctors Bill’s, to finally find a cure - food allergies. Changed my diet, used a system cleanse, and 9 years of agony disappeared in 3 days.
In my head? If you said that to my husband, he would pummel you into the dirt for such an insult.
Congrats on your recovery. You are among the .00001% I write about.
Someday there may be a watershed moment in medicine. I hope my (still-unpublished) books will contribute.
Until then, I would encourage you to do a vanity post about your experience if you’re not planning on publishing it elsewhere to show other FReepers that a solution to even Fibromyalgia is within reach of most people (I just pinged someone I know who has it and stubbornly believes that it is incurable despite my feedback).
What was your allergy?
I suffer from pain and with diabetes, it’s everywhere in my body.
Neuropathy...but something else is also going on too.
Metformin and glimipiride and damn gabapentin, is what I take at this point.
Oh and that supplement, ipoid somethin.
Doctors are shackled by common practice when it comes to diabetes.
Control it until they die.
That’s what they do.