Dear Luga,

Thank you for taking the time to send in your story. My heart-felt cyberhug goes out to you.

As you know, I received cortisone shots from the time I was 4 years old to the time I was 15 years old. The poison attacked my soft tissue and by the time I was 12 years old I was disqualified from school sports. I had an achy body and my lower back was the worst. By the time I was 18 I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and told that my MRI looked as though I was 30 years old and that I needed back surgery, which I refused. By the time I was 25 my back was hurting so badly that neither standing up nor laying down was giving me any relief. Another MRI by a different doctor confirmed that my body had aged and it looked as though he was viewing the insides of a 60 year old woman. God only knows that I felt old and brittle.

I went ahead and had my back surgery. Life has never been the same since and getting Fibromyalgia only a couple of years later only made things worse.I truly understand your pain!Having said that, I hope you will read my entire story and how I healed myself not only from Fibromyalgia, the rheumatism, the chronic fatigue, but also the backaches, the chronic carpal tunnel, the temporary but agonizing lapses of memory and everything else that seems to accompany this condition.

There truly is hope!

Do order the book and find tips and guidance in there, and at minimum someone who relates to you on every level.For now let me tell you this. I know you don't feel like exercising. It seems like a contradiction. How can an achy body get exercised when the last thing you want to do is move? And I'm not asking you to exercise, but I am asking you to try the following. Get 5-10 minutes of sun every day. Go outside and walk in the sun. Walk slowly, however slow you want. As long as you walk and move your body in the sun.

Do this for about a month. Then check back with me.Keep me posted, dear Luga!