Hi! My name is Missy and I've had fibromyalgia for going on 14 years now. I've had my share of ups and downs, but I think I've weathered every storm that has come my way. When I was first diagnosed, I didn't even know what fibromyalgia WAS, much less how to treat it. It sounded like a fatal disease to me!! I'm a registered nurse, but I can no longer work due to severe back pain (from 3 lumbar...
Jasmine ann started writing as a recovering back and sciatic pain sufferer. After enduring back and sciatic pain herself she wanted to help others by sharing her experiences and helpful resources.
It is her passion to help people to get information and inspiration and to be in control by exploring physical, mental and emotional means of coping with and dealing with back pain.
On a...
I am a 41yr old man. I've been an electrician for 22yrs, most of which i've been a workaholic. "A walking forklift", I've been called. In May of 2007 I lifted my toolbag wrong (which I found out later weighed 80lbs) and felt a sudden sharp pain in my lower back that almost put me to my knees. I reported this but kept on working (old mindset "just work...
In early 2005, I was 28 years old and just beginning to break into a career as an opera singer. I had received contracts for three main stage productions, a culmination of ten years of work toward my goal of making opera my life's work. I was at a turning point; these performances could make or break my budding career.
One morning in March of that year, I woke, stood up, and passed out,...
I lost a kidney and have just recently found a path to take because a Doctor took the time to listen and realized I was not a hypochondriac or a big overly sensitive, stressed, depressed woman. (yes, lots of justified sarcasm).
I was athletic, very lean and continued to stay fit by enjoying bike rides and playing recreational co-ed softball. However, when I started a family at 25, I had...
My real name is Jean, and I am a female, age 56. I live in northeast Ohio, and I am interested in art, writing, nature, animal rights and health care rights. Since 2001, I have been getting progressively disabed, with trouble walking, and muscle pain and stiffness, caused by exertion. My first symptom was severe pain and stiffness in my sacroiliac area, that spread up my spine...
I was born on August 8th 1991. Two or more weeks premature. I spent the first three and a half years of my life in a Romanian orphanage, on the third year one of the caretakers attempted to kill me by throwing me down the stairs for complaining that she was stealing food. I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury with skull fracture. I remember waking up in the hospital. Because of the premature birth...
