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The Frustration of Fibromyalgia
The autoimmune no one wants to diagnose.
I am a man with Fibromyalgia.
At least we think that is what I have.
My Downhill Slide
My journey began two years ago when the corner of my mouth and eye went numb. Being a man I didn’t immediately go to the doctor, and waited to see if it would get better.
A couple months later with the numbness slightly expanding I finally decided I better see what modern medicine thought about my problem.
Being a man I didn’t immediately go to the doctor, and waited to see if it would get better.
By this time I had realized I had a few more little thing wrong with me.
I was helping a friend clean out his barn, and by mid morning I was completely wiped out. I mean wiped-out! Just two years before I had cut three pick-up loads of firewood in a day, by myself over the course of a winter.
I could hardly move the day after the barn incident.
Right about this time I started working an extra job as a pizza delivery guy. It was great extra money. But…
I started being sleepy all the time, I mean all-the-time. The numbness spread to my legs. Morning became…
