23/11/2016
CUSTOMER FIBROMYALGIA TESTIMONIAL
It started back in 2011 when I was 24 and my children were 5,5 and 2 years old, I was working in Swansea at the time as a drug addictions worker as part of a team of 3 and was responsible for 100 patients. I would get these sharp pains down my arms and legs and this dull ache that never seemed to go away. It wasn’t that bad but initially I was concerned because I didn’t know what it was. Eventually I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, that wasn’t great but not life threatening and I got on with life.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition, the cause of which is unknown and the treatment for it is minimal, there is no cure and varies day to day in severity and person to person. Symptoms include but are not limited to wide spread pain, fatigue, headaches, poor concentration, anxiety and depression.
Towards the end of 2013 when my symptoms seemed to get worse and worse, several tests later to rule anything else out and we were back to the same diagnoses, I was very against any medication at first but it wasn’t long before I accepted, unfortunately for fibromyalgia the treatment options rarely work which simply resulted in my medication being upped and upped until I was on 600mg pregablin and day and morphine. This still didn’t work. By this time, most days, I was unable to drive because of the pain and cocktail of drugs, Mark was driving me to and from work and often I would come out in tears because trying to look after my patients without being able to concentrate, whilst being exhausted and in a massive amount of pain was torture. I was coming home and going to bed, unable to look after my children and I certainly wasn’t giving them the best of me like they deserved. We no longer went out at weekends and sometimes even the breeze outside or the touch of my clothes would make me pass out in pain. Now I really loved my job and for a long time I refused any time off until in the end I couldn’t do anymore. I was signed off.
I had been signed off for almost 6 months and was still waiting to find a dose of medication that helped when I was approached by Forever. I started using some of the products after being told that they may hel