23 and Diagnosed.

by Kayla Day
(Fort Hood, Texas)

I was diagnosed last April at the age of 23. I knew something was wrong but I just couldn't get the doctors to listen to me and find out what was really wrong. So I just suffered through it. Once I was out of the military I went to a civilian doctor and was finally properly diagnosed. At first it was really hard for me to accept, my husband was deployed at the time and my daughter was only 3 years old. I couldn't believe that something this life altering and permanent was happening to me. The first few weeks were rough, really rough. But as I started to come to terms with my diagnosis, I threw myself into research. Learning as much as I could, going through case studies, published works, websites, and if it was written about Fibromyalgia I read it, twice. The most important thing I learned was that I needed to have balance in my life. I needed to find a way to balance out my life so that I could live as I wanted without Fibromyalgia pain. I am happy to say that I am now living without the interference of pain medicine and Doctors who treat me as a pin cushion. I have switched my diet to 75% Organic (my family is a little hesitant), and while my husband doesn't think that it has anything to do with it, I have seen vast improvement in my quality of life. I can do anything I want and still have enough of a balance that I can still function. While I can't predict events that will trigger my symptoms no matter how calm, cool, and collected I keep myself. I can still just power through it because I know that no matter how tough this gets, I beat Fibro. I may have it the rest of my life, but it doesn't control me, I control it.