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hi Willow, you seem like such a sweetheart. im sorry you are struggling. yes, i can really relate to you and your illness. my teeth are giving me issues too right now, but i havnt been feeling well enough to get in there and get them fixed. i keep waiting for the day that i can get going on...

hi Chocolate and willow and all, thank you for your kind words....that is so nice and it means a lot to me. how often do i have these flares? i dont know. seems like all the time these days. but in reality it is about once every 6 weeks or so. sometimes more often and sometimes not. i never...

hello My flares are really bad these days. I feel like i have the flu, except i dont. i ache and get a burning sensation all over and I get a bad headache and i am really weak, sometimes nauseated and cant eat much either. sometimes light and sound irritate me, so i have to just lay in the...

Hello Fellow sufferers, I get a small check of social security disability. its very hard to live on under $700 a month, but, somehow i manage. Sometimes have nothing at the end of the month. i live in public housing so my rent is 30% of my monthly amount. I am 70 years now, and i am all...

hi again Willow and Getemgirl, Well for me, i feel i dont have any stamina. I can get up and do a little something, but i wear out so easily. i never know how long i will last if i am out and about so i never plan anything that will take hours to do. i just cant do that anymore. I do get...

Hello Willow I have extreme fatigue at times as well. When it is bad, i really cant do much of anything but lay around and just rest. It also becomes a huge effort for me to walk or get around. It usually resolves itself after a few hours or a few days. It is really hard to deal with and i...

yes it is a very sad state of affairs. it seems like as our food supply and water become more contaminated with chemicals, we are getting sicker as a population. doctors are not trained to recognize these kinds of illnessess and the types of strange illness is growing. No one seems to have...

Fibromyalgia is not a real "mainstream" type illness but it might be someday if enough people get it. The" well" population really have no reason to try and learn about it if it isn't bothering them. So they dont know anything about it but want to tell you that you cant have it either...

hello fellow sufferers, well i am still learning what fibromyalgia means and is. from reading a lot of posts on here, it seems to be so different for so many of us. its hard for me to wrap my head around all of this and be included in this group. I was diagnosed with CFS in 1997 and...

Hello I used to live in san diego and the best doctor i found was Dr. Gary Shima. Hes up in North county, San Marcos. He is very understanding of people with auto-immune disorders. Hope this helps