Fibromyalgia
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My Life With Fibromyalgia
So living with fibromyalgia is probably the hardest thing anyone can do in their life. I have been struggling with fibro since I was ten years old. I will tell you the story in a minute. But this condition is so bad at times and hurts me so much that I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy.
So here is the story
When I was ten years old I started having problems with my knees. They constantly hurt and I couldn't get them to stop hurting. I went to a doctor who to x-rays and told my mom I had no cartilage in the knee joints and that is why they hurt so badly. He said the bones where rubbing together and if I didn't do something about it I wouldn't able to walk by the time I was out of school. Bummer isn't it.
Well I went on doing the things a normal child would do and the pain kept on doing its thing. After I few visits to see my dad in Arizona I realized that when I was there my knees didn't hurt as bad as when I was in Virginia. In Virginia I was wearing two knee braces and having a hard time walking every day. So I made a decision, it was time to move to Arizona.
I called my dad and asked him if I could come live with him because I couldn't stand the pain anymore in Virginia. He said yes I could but I would have to wait a year so he could buy a house and get ready to have a child in his life that he had to raise. So I waited. When the summer came around I was ready to move and I did. I was only 14 years old or so. My mother didn't much care for the fact that I wanted to move but she didn't understand that I was in pain.
I got to Arizona and started all over with my life and after a few months of living there I realized I wasn't using the knee braces as much as I had in the past. I was feeling good and didn't hurt that bad. Life was looking better and happier for me. I went to a doctor in my town and had my knees looked at and he said that the cartilage was fine in my joints. He couldn't see anything wrong other than a few fractures in the knee caps. But those didn't cause the pain. That was good news to me.
After I graduated high school I moved to another town in Arizona to go to school for auto/diesel technology. While in school I was under a lot of stress and wasn't eating or sleeping write and the pain started to come back and this time it was a lot worse than before. Every year that went by more and more of my body started to hurt. It was really getting to me and causing me some problems.
One day it all came apart. I had a car accident while I was working for a large car manufacturer as a test driver. I fractured my sternum and dislocated a disk and vertebrate in my lower back that paralyzed me for a few days until the swelling went down. I was having such a hard time dealing with the back injury and the pain of the fibro that I just couldn't handle it anymore and was admitted to a mental hospital for severe depression.
After I was released from the hospital I moved back home and started treatment for the back injury and for the depression. I was off of work for a year while the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with me besides the obvious injuries from the car accident. I was poked, prodded, inspected, and x-rayed until I glowed in the dark and looked like a pin cushion and nothing came up positive. The doctors had no idea what was wrong. So one of them said "Hey maybe its fibromyalgia". Could it be said the other doctors. It was something they hadn't seen in someone that was only 22 years old. They said this is an older person's disease not a young person.
That's when I started to become the test dummy for new medications for fibro. I had had it longer than anyone without using medicine and I was younger than most people so my body could take all the meds they were going to give me. I will tell you this has fibro the way I do make you very interesting to doctors in this field. They loved to see what would happen if I was on this drug or this drug or this one. How does it affect you, are you still in pain? Yes I was and yes I still am to this day. But the drugs I tested as a young man have made life a lot better for other people with this disease. I am proud I could help them out by suffering so much.
I control the pain as well as I can. I am on meds to help but it is always going to be there and there is nothing the doctors can do to stop it. I wish I could go back to the days when I didn't hurt so bad and enjoy my life a little better. But I can't so I push on. Every day I get up and go to work and do my best and every day I try to get my internet marketing career off the ground so I can do the things I want to do instead of working my life away. All my doctors say fibro won't kill me but there is only so much pain and exhaustion the body can take. That is why I don't want to have to work for someone anymore and want to go live my life as a free man.
I want to do things I haven't done. I want to see things I haven't seen. I want meet people that I haven't met. I want to live with this disease not just exist with it. I would love to get out there and meet people that have fibro and tell them my story. I want to let them know that life will go on but it might be a little slower than they would like. Nut I will tell you this, you see so much more in slow motion then you do in fast forward. So this disease is a blessing as well as a curse.
My story will continue on as well as everyone else's with fibro and I will make the best of it, just as I always have. So if you like my story leave a comment and please come visit my site D & D Gecko Ranch to see some of the things I am doing even with this crazy amount of pain and while you are there buy something. It will help me to get out of this job and do the thing I want to do. And tell a friend or two or two hundred about this story. It may not be the best but it's my story and I am proud that I have been able to do what I have done with fibromyalgia.


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If you have any specific questions about any medical matter you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
If you think you may be suffering from any medical condition you should seek immediately medical attention.
You should never delay seeking medical advice, disregard medical advice, or discontinue medical treatment because of information on this website.
Liability
Nothing in this medical disclaimer will limit any of our liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law, or exclude any of our liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
This medical disclaimer
This medical disclaimer is based on a Freenetlaw template supplied by Template Contracts.
This is an affiliate link that I will be compensated on.
Well I went on doing the things a normal child would do and the pain kept on doing its thing. After I few visits to see my dad in Arizona I realized that when I was there my knees didn't hurt as bad as when I was in Virginia. In Virginia I was wearing two knee braces and having a hard time walking every day. So I made a decision, it was time to move to Arizona.
I called my dad and asked him if I could come live with him because I couldn't stand the pain anymore in Virginia. He said yes I could but I would have to wait a year so he could buy a house and get ready to have a child in his life that he had to raise. So I waited. When the summer came around I was ready to move and I did. I was only 14 years old or so. My mother didn't much care for the fact that I wanted to move but she didn't understand that I was in pain.
I got to Arizona and started all over with my life and after a few months of living there I realized I wasn't using the knee braces as much as I had in the past. I was feeling good and didn't hurt that bad. Life was looking better and happier for me. I went to a doctor in my town and had my knees looked at and he said that the cartilage was fine in my joints. He couldn't see anything wrong other than a few fractures in the knee caps. But those didn't cause the pain. That was good news to me.
After I graduated high school I moved to another town in Arizona to go to school for auto/diesel technology. While in school I was under a lot of stress and wasn't eating or sleeping write and the pain started to come back and this time it was a lot worse than before. Every year that went by more and more of my body started to hurt. It was really getting to me and causing me some problems.
One day it all came apart. I had a car accident while I was working for a large car manufacturer as a test driver. I fractured my sternum and dislocated a disk and vertebrate in my lower back that paralyzed me for a few days until the swelling went down. I was having such a hard time dealing with the back injury and the pain of the fibro that I just couldn't handle it anymore and was admitted to a mental hospital for severe depression.
After I was released from the hospital I moved back home and started treatment for the back injury and for the depression. I was off of work for a year while the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with me besides the obvious injuries from the car accident. I was poked, prodded, inspected, and x-rayed until I glowed in the dark and looked like a pin cushion and nothing came up positive. The doctors had no idea what was wrong. So one of them said "Hey maybe its fibromyalgia". Could it be said the other doctors. It was something they hadn't seen in someone that was only 22 years old. They said this is an older person's disease not a young person.
That's when I started to become the test dummy for new medications for fibro. I had had it longer than anyone without using medicine and I was younger than most people so my body could take all the meds they were going to give me. I will tell you this has fibro the way I do make you very interesting to doctors in this field. They loved to see what would happen if I was on this drug or this drug or this one. How does it affect you, are you still in pain? Yes I was and yes I still am to this day. But the drugs I tested as a young man have made life a lot better for other people with this disease. I am proud I could help them out by suffering so much.
I control the pain as well as I can. I am on meds to help but it is always going to be there and there is nothing the doctors can do to stop it. I wish I could go back to the days when I didn't hurt so bad and enjoy my life a little better. But I can't so I push on. Every day I get up and go to work and do my best and every day I try to get my internet marketing career off the ground so I can do the things I want to do instead of working my life away. All my doctors say fibro won't kill me but there is only so much pain and exhaustion the body can take. That is why I don't want to have to work for someone anymore and want to go live my life as a free man.
I want to do things I haven't done. I want to see things I haven't seen. I want meet people that I haven't met. I want to live with this disease not just exist with it. I would love to get out there and meet people that have fibro and tell them my story. I want to let them know that life will go on but it might be a little slower than they would like. Nut I will tell you this, you see so much more in slow motion then you do in fast forward. So this disease is a blessing as well as a curse.
My story will continue on as well as everyone else's with fibro and I will make the best of it, just as I always have. So if you like my story leave a comment and please come visit my site D & D Gecko Ranch to see some of the things I am doing even with this crazy amount of pain and while you are there buy something. It will help me to get out of this job and do the thing I want to do. And tell a friend or two or two hundred about this story. It may not be the best but it's my story and I am proud that I have been able to do what I have done with fibromyalgia.

This website contains general information about medical conditions and treatments. The information is not advice, and should not be treated as such.
Limitation of warranties
The medical information on this website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Dylan Cuff makes no representations or warranties in relation to the medical information on this website.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Dylan Cuff does not warrant that:
%uF06C the medical information on this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
%uF06C the medical information on this website is complete, true, accurate, up-to-date, or non-misleading.
Professional assistance
You must not rely on the information on this website as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
If you have any specific questions about any medical matter you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
If you think you may be suffering from any medical condition you should seek immediately medical attention.
You should never delay seeking medical advice, disregard medical advice, or discontinue medical treatment because of information on this website.
Liability
Nothing in this medical disclaimer will limit any of our liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law, or exclude any of our liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
This medical disclaimer
This medical disclaimer is based on a Freenetlaw template supplied by Template Contracts.
This is an affiliate link that I will be compensated on.
Real Time Pain Relief
This is a Product that I have found that relieves the pain of fibromyalgia and countless others.
- Real Time Pain Relief
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A New Day Begins.
So like you have already read I have the fibro and it sucks. But I have found a product "Real Time Pain Relief (RTPR)" that actually does work. Sometimes my medication cannot handle all the pain that I feel so I decided to try this stuff that I saw an ad for on a forum I go to. After talking to the gentile man that was advertising it. He told me that his daughter has fibro as well and she has been using this new pain reliever for some time and it has made her feel great. I didn't believe it would work I have tried so many things to stop my pain and none of them have worked in the past so why should this on be any different. You don't even need a prescription to get it so I thought how well could it work and it's not even in stores. Maybe this is a scam so the guy could get rich. So I held off on buying any for a long time.
So one day when my pain was really bad I said oh what the hey I"ll buy some and see if it works. Well I decided to get the free sample first and try that. It was only six dollars for the shipping and handling. See a few weeks before I got the RTPR my big dumb dog knocked me down and I hit my knee really hard on the ground. I landed on concrete. It hurt so bad I thought I was going to pass out and be sick all at the same time. When I could get up I went and looked at my knee and there was this huge bump on it and it was starting to turn colors. So I dealt with the pain for a few weeks and then I got the RTPR in the mail and tried it out on my knee. I followed the instructions just as they were written on the package. I applied it to the area that was hurting and in a few minutes the pain was almost gone. It was down to a point that I could easily handle.
I thought to myself if this stuff worked on my knee, which I thought I broke due to the pain, what would it do for the rest of my aching body. At this point in my life I am almost willing to try anything to stop the pain. It has been so long since I could walk or do anything without hurting. I have been on pills my entire adult life and I am getting tired of it. But I think to myself how much of this stuff am I going to need to stop the pain in my whole body. I wander if I could get enough to fill my bath tub so I could just climb in every morning before work. That would be great. I haven't yet ordered and entire bottle but by the time anyone reads this I will have. I just want the pain to stop and I think I have found a way to have that happen.
If you suffer from pain like I do, and I know pain just re-read the top of this page, give this stuff a try. It won't cost you nearly as much as medication would and there are no side effects other then feeling great and wanting to tell the world that you are once again ready to take on anything it can throw at you. Most medication have all kinds of crazy side effects and as a medication tester I know about all of them and just wish I didn't have to go through all of those anymore. So I am going to talk to my doctor about this stuff and recommend he give it to his other patients and see how it makes them fell. You never know it might be the next big pain reliever to hit the doctor's office. If you would like to give it a try just click on the banner above. I recommend that you try the free samples first to see how you like it then go ahead and buy the jars.
If you would like to be an affiliate for RTPR use this link here http://rtpr.com/affiliate/affiliates/signup.php?a_aid=ecc440e7
So one day when my pain was really bad I said oh what the hey I"ll buy some and see if it works. Well I decided to get the free sample first and try that. It was only six dollars for the shipping and handling. See a few weeks before I got the RTPR my big dumb dog knocked me down and I hit my knee really hard on the ground. I landed on concrete. It hurt so bad I thought I was going to pass out and be sick all at the same time. When I could get up I went and looked at my knee and there was this huge bump on it and it was starting to turn colors. So I dealt with the pain for a few weeks and then I got the RTPR in the mail and tried it out on my knee. I followed the instructions just as they were written on the package. I applied it to the area that was hurting and in a few minutes the pain was almost gone. It was down to a point that I could easily handle.
I thought to myself if this stuff worked on my knee, which I thought I broke due to the pain, what would it do for the rest of my aching body. At this point in my life I am almost willing to try anything to stop the pain. It has been so long since I could walk or do anything without hurting. I have been on pills my entire adult life and I am getting tired of it. But I think to myself how much of this stuff am I going to need to stop the pain in my whole body. I wander if I could get enough to fill my bath tub so I could just climb in every morning before work. That would be great. I haven't yet ordered and entire bottle but by the time anyone reads this I will have. I just want the pain to stop and I think I have found a way to have that happen.
If you suffer from pain like I do, and I know pain just re-read the top of this page, give this stuff a try. It won't cost you nearly as much as medication would and there are no side effects other then feeling great and wanting to tell the world that you are once again ready to take on anything it can throw at you. Most medication have all kinds of crazy side effects and as a medication tester I know about all of them and just wish I didn't have to go through all of those anymore. So I am going to talk to my doctor about this stuff and recommend he give it to his other patients and see how it makes them fell. You never know it might be the next big pain reliever to hit the doctor's office. If you would like to give it a try just click on the banner above. I recommend that you try the free samples first to see how you like it then go ahead and buy the jars.
If you would like to be an affiliate for RTPR use this link here http://rtpr.com/affiliate/affiliates/signup.php?a_aid=ecc440e7
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- Hi and welcome to Squidoo. Your story was very emotional for me to read and I thank you for sharing it. A couple tips to help you along: Change all generic titles to match the theme of your article. Never drop links in the comment sections as it can get you banned. And if you need more information or tips there are links at the bottom of each page to the squidforums and FAQ's. Best of wishes.
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- Angel blessed, and lensrolled to My Experience with Fibromyalgia. I found the medication Cymbalta does wonders for pain and sleep. Also meditation has helped me tremendously. Many thanks for sharing your story. I too found great relief when I went to Arizona, but unfortunately I can't live there. Maybe some day -:)
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Wbisbill Jan 10, 2011 @ 2:26 pm | delete
- Thanks for sharing this lens. Those of us with chronic disorders can relate to your story! New fan here!
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DylanCuff
Jan 10, 2011 @ 3:26 pm | delete
- Well thank you for looking at my lens. I found this great pain releiver its the Real Time Pain Relief. There is a link on the lens for it. I started using it and it does help out a lot more then the medication I was on. I still have some pain but I'm hopeful it will go away as time goes by. You should look into it. You can also make money from the sell of the product.
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