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“If I would have one wish for others with #fibromyalgia, it would be that they recognize their #resilience, and that they have confidence in their resilience”: buff.ly/4aJchkM by Fibromyalgia - What I Know Is Real #ChronicPain #Chronicillness #spoonies

⁦Fibromyalgia - What I Know Is Real⁩ I know many understand It takes a lot of work to not be in pain 24/7 Pain is exhausting

#Fibromyalgia …"It’s like my “automatic mode switch” got broken so I have to ”manually reset” it every day. And I have to do all these things to reset it.” #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/it-seems-like-…

"Much of the time, #fibromyalgia tries to make me feel like I can’t choose how I will be." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/i-become-what-…

"You know how you occasionally hear it reported..some celebrity who suffers from exhaustion goes to some facility to rest & relax & rehabilitate their body for about a month or two? Well I remember thinking, that's exactly what it felt like I needed to do" soisfibromyalgiareal.com/im-sick-of-lim…

"...when you have #fibromyalgia, it’s a monthly, weekly, sometimes daily kind of thing, getting knocked down! Not a life stage. I mean, I have been continually KNOCKED BACK DOWN to BASIC SURVIVAL MODE. Working on the most basic of needs." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgiapy…

"If I must have this #fibromyalgia thing, I’m going to get something out of it…I’m going to make it work FOR me!" #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/these-are-side…

"I can even say that it’s been my experience that his program is A GOOD ROUTINE TO FOLLOW FOR FIBROMYALGIA IN GENERAL. Much of it is what I’ve already been doing for over 19 years now since my fibromyalgia diagnosis & have found, it helps. It helps a lot." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/keep-sharpfibr…

"Because really, it seems to me that #fibromyalgia is a “do-the-opposite” illness. I mean, you kind of HAVE to be oppositional, even defiant, to tackle it!" #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/in-your-face-f…

#Fibromyalgia & #Pacing "Because it feels so limiting...always having to worry if I will be overdoing it and need time to rest and recuperate...will THIS be too much?...will THAT be too much?...is EVERYTHING too much!?!" #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/im-sick-of-lim…

"And personally, I’m a huge fan of self-help anything…I love it that I can get going right away, I don’t have to wait for or depend on anyone else…I feel a sense of #power in self-sufficiency.” #Fibromyalgia #PTSD #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/overcoming-tra…

"...alongside every memory for the last 20 years...there is a #fibromyalgia memory for me. A quiet memory that I mostly keep to myself, almost like a dual life I lead I guess. Always there, an intricate part of my life, intertwined with everything I do." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgia-a…

"Yes, crawling up that pyramid and getting soundly bounced down it, over and over again, throughout two decades, yearly, monthly, weekly and especially daily, it has changed me. It has MADE me. I am a different person now." #Fibromyalgia #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fibromyalgiapy…

"I was responding to my symptoms in such a way as to try to eliminate the CAUSE of the symptom, which would in turn, eliminate the symptom.” #Fibromyalgia #ManagingWithoutMeds #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/fifteen-years-…

#Fibromyalgia and staying positive..."Because if I’m being honest, truly honest with myself…isn’t it, more often than not, really more about just trying to NOT be depressed?” #Depression #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/never-worked-s…

"With the absence of a definite known point of origin for our #fibromyalgia, maybe the blanket approach of boosting my overall health as much as possible has inadvertently given me the best chance of hitting that origin and rebuilding." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/different-thin…

"realized...in my everyday life I was living with a CONSTANT, IMPERCEPTIBLE, THIN LAYER OF #STRESS that had become such a part of me that I wasn’t even aware of it & that I NEEDED TO TACKLE IT for my #fibromyalgia to continue to improve to the next level" soisfibromyalgiareal.com/i-cant-vouch-f…

"My hope is that individuals use what they can from my blog to further their own battle (with fibromyalgia), that they PICK OUT WHAT CAN APPLY to benefit their own situation." #WhatIKnowIsReal soisfibromyalgiareal.com/staying-afloat…

"And the specific benefits we will attain by working on building a better brain? Well, I will take ANY at this point, but these really do sound quite hopeful in terms of help with my #fibromyalgia on so many fronts, far more than just my fibro fog." soisfibromyalgiareal.com/keep-sharpfibr…