2tired,
I am glad you found this forum because hopefully by reading the topic's here you will find some relief of your symptoms. Fibro has wrecked so many of our lives, in people just like you and me, who used to get things done. I had my own business housecleaning, and I was really good at it, until fibro reared its ugly head and took my dream away.
The only thing that has helped me hold back some of the symptoms is by reducing stress in my life. I can take a ton of pills, but if I try to continue to over do to much or having the stress put on me by others I usually end up in bed to weak to move. I too look back on the early days and can see the signs now that I was blind too back then. But with fibro there is no going back, no cure, just finding ways to cope and deal with it now.
Be sure to read through the pain sections and go back in the posts and read the different ways other people here manage to make their life's a bit easier and enjoy parts if not all of their days. Ask questions by starting your own topics and answer questions by providing how you cope and what works and what does not.
I hope to see your name around the forum and I hope you can feel at home here.
