How I Beat Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue

There is an old proverb that says, "Where there are no oxen, the stable is clean."

Well, let me tell you - there is not one fibromyalgia sufferer who does not have a lot of oxen, and his or her stable is not clean!

That is a joke, but it is also a great truth, the underlying truth of the real cause and cure for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. They sound like different illnesses, but fibromyalgia is when you hurt more than you are tired, and chronic fatigue is when you are more tired than you hurt.

After 18 years of health problems, including 11 surgeries, a rheumatology and internal medicine specialist diagnosed me with fibromyalgia. I had never heard the term, but when he told me that I was like the princess in the Princess and the Pea fairy tale, I knew someone had finally come up with an accurate diagnosis.

There are 20 to 30 conditions that make up the syndromes of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Many doctors believe that these syndromes are simply psychosomatic and the patient had best learn how to cope. Even the doctors who know these illnesses are very real - because they themselves suffer from them - have no hope to offer patients because they have not been able to
determine a cause, any treatment that works, and certainly not a cure.

The good news is that I did return to complete health. It took 19 months of research, experimentation, agony, determination, discipline and undoubtedly divine guidance, but since 4 June 1998, I have been 100% free of fibromyalgia pain. I did it by fixing each of the 20 to 30 conditions I had by cleaning toxins out of my mind and my body.

Another Pea Under the Mattress

I have yet to meet a fibromyalgic who is not an overachiever, a perfectionist, someone who feels he has to be everything to everyone. I use the pronoun he deliberately, because I feel it is a misconception that most fibromyalgics are female. In my experience, there are just as many males; they just refrain from talking about it. I know I did everything I could to be Super Woman and kept my multitude of dis-ease conditions to myself. That is, until one issue would become very serious and then I would admit to that one only. Just like any man, I did not want to be considered a wimp, like that princess in the fairy tale. Each ailment was just one more pea under the mattress.

At the age of 15, I worked 25 hours a week while I went to school. At the age of 17, I worked 70

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