http://invisibleillnessweek.com/?p=2739#IDCommentIDComment34889675

I especially sympathize with these 2 sections:

"Please, please don’t ask me if I’m getting better. Once I figure out how to manage my pain and other symptoms, the entire world will be the second to know. Until then, everything changes from day to day, minute to minute, even second to second. It’s all about learning how to manage the pain and other symptoms when outside stressors, the weather, and sometimes nothing at all can change where it hurts, how it hurts, and how much it hurts."

"I can understand that maybe some feel FMS is not such a big deal. After all, it’s not cancer. It’s not heart disease. So, it’s not considered fatal by those standards. However, there are people who suffer from FMS who consider suicide as their only option for relief. Dr. Jack Kavorkian assisted suicide in Fibromyalgia patients. People who suffer from Fibromyalgia feel helpless, hopeless, and unable to obtain any relief from pain and the myriad of other debilitating symptoms associated with FMS (which stands for FibroMyalgia Syndrome). So, it is not life-threatening by the classic definition, but don’t say this to fibro sufferers. This is not a harmless disease."