“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.” – Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
We are smart, articulate, beautiful, passionate, determined, and we have fibromyalgia. We are a huge group of women varying in all ages. Some of us are also men. There are those of us with Southern drawls while some of us speak Italian…or French. Some of us are from the streets of Brooklyn while others roam on Texas farmland. A small suburban community in the Midwest is where some of us call home, while others can see the Hollywood sign from our bedroom window.
Many of us do not fit into the stereotypical group statistically defined to represent sufferers of fibromyalgia. Many of us were labeled long after the condition progressed. And then there are so many of us who aren’t sure whether we have it. We are growing in numbers, hanging out in the shadows of Western medicine. We are a diverse group of people with one thing in common; we all have a mysterious condition without an identifiable cause.
Fibromyalgia is a condition associated with chronic pain all over the body often accompanied with the deterioration of the mind. Without a scientific explanation, the search for an answer has led many to the same dead-end.
Until now…
