{"id":569,"date":"2020-07-31T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:53:40","slug":"edwin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/2020\/07\/edwin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin N."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humans of ME\/CFS<\/h2>\n<p>In 1984, I had a recurring virus mixed with faringitis, which made some glands to grow. I had migraines from 1995-2005. In 1998, I had a different flu with the typical pain and muscular fatigue. In 1999, the typical muscle fatigue began, followed by chronic constipation, head fever after lunch, and muscle pain. I could only sleep for 2 1\/2 hours at night. I had to read everything from 3 to 5 times to comprehend. My feet ached terribly and my shoes felt smaller.<\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed with ME\/CFS in 2002. I got chronic gastritis in 2007, fibromyalgia in 2009, sleep apnea in 2012, and IBS in 2013.<br \/>\nIn December 2014, I found out that cannabis is the only medicine to make my pain and fatigue disappear, while giving me strength and no munchies.<br \/>\nMost people won&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m sick because I don&#8217;t look sick. So, I disassociated myself from all of my family and most friends. Getting rid of toxic people helped alleviate my stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans of ME\/CFS In 1984, I had a recurring virus mixed with faringitis, which made some glands to grow. I had migraines from 1995-2005. In 1998, I had a different flu with the typical pain and muscular fatigue. In 1999, the typical muscle fatigue began, followed by chronic constipation, head fever after lunch, and muscle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/edwin_n.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}