It’s unfortunate that fibromyalgia doesn’t have more defined systems, something that will show up in the blood, or can be x-rayed and viewed. While I feel the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome are probably real, it has to be difficult to prove to someone when you are in pain but no doctor can point to any one bodily issue to prove it.

Often I think about other ailments I have when I think about this fibromyalgia. It’s impossible to tell someone what it feels like to have a child. The pain is so intense but you can’t describe it. But when you birth a child, you have something to show that the pain was real. Sadly, this is not the case with chronic pain.

I think it’s also unfortunate that people have used this illness when they probably do not have it. If it ever gets to be an illness labeled as a disability, funded by government assistance, I suspect every woman in America might come down with it! It would be much too easy to claim you had it if you don’t have to have any physical symptoms of the disease.

Sometimes when I am very tired, my joints ache and my bones hurt, but I will myself to work through it. I’m sure it’s not always the case for others who suffer from this disease, but sometimes if you just push through the pain, you find that you do not notice it as much, and sometimes not at all.

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