Just ME

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When I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia at 40, I realized I had been unknowingly living with illness and denying it most of my life. Even as a child, I felt like my nerves were all prickly and fuzzy like static build-up. I lived with pain, stiffness, fatigue and troubled sleep. Into adulthood weather changes, certain foods, lights, sound, the touch of my clothes, even thinking hurt. Every day was an exhausting struggle, but the worst would pass. I would be told how healthy I looked and that I was just out of shape, needed to push myself harder and that there was really nothing wrong with me and I was just too sensitive. I accepted this view of myself and lived in denial of the truth of my experience.

I only recieved my ME dx this year,but I knew from the start that it was more than fibro.