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Fibromyalgia Reflection

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After months of medical tests, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia the summer right before my first semester of school. I was fit and in the best health I had ever been in a long time but was hit with bouts of enormous pain and fatigue. Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal syndrome with symptoms of chronic muscle and nerve pain, enormous amounts of fatigue, sleep and digestive problems, as well as “brain fog.”
At the time the diagnoses did not make sense to me and I could not fathom the Doctor 's words of this staying with me for life. I felt like every power in the universe was against me going to school since it seemed that something happened every time I attempted to finish where I Ieft off. I had to fight these feelings of victimization and
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