I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue\/Fibromyalgia 20 years ago when I was 22 years old. My symptoms started with extreme fatigue, body aches, headaches, flu like symptoms and always being sick. I also had Gallbladder stones and they removed my gallbladder at that time.<\/p>\n
Through the years, I was put on antidepressants, muscle relaxers and nothing helped. I was told by my new doctor that most of my symptoms could be from motherhood.<\/p>\n
As the years have passed and my kids have grown, the symptoms have gotten worse. My kids are almost grown. I felt that no one has believed me or listened to me over the years since this is a invisible illness. I have tried my best to hang in there but I have missed a lot of work due to this illness.<\/p>\n
In November of 2018 I was sick for a month and a half was put on 3 different antibiotics and my doctor said he couldn’t find anything wrong with me. I ended up going to the ER and they did a nasal swab and said I had Coronavirus OC43 and was sent home with an inhaler. I still had a severe cough, sore throat, headaches, wheezing and generally not feeling well till March 2019. I still felt like I was not back to myself which was still not in the best health before I had Coronavirus. Since then I have been lucky to work from home but somedays I feel like I cannot get out of bed or stay awake or I just need the day off to rest.<\/p>\n
I could sleep for 20 hours and still not be fully rested. On a daily basis I feel body aches, extreme exhaustion, brain fog and headaches, I try hard to push through daily life because I have so much responsibilities, but it is very hard. I have a very difficult time getting out of bed daily and functioning with work and home life.<\/p>\n
I am hopeful that a cure will be found one day so others can live a better life and not deal with the hardships I have dealt with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue\/Fibromyalgia 20 years ago when I was 22 years old. My symptoms started with extreme fatigue, body aches, headaches, flu like symptoms and always being sick. I also had Gallbladder stones and they removed my gallbladder at that time. Through the years, I was put on antidepressants, muscle relaxers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":848,"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\/2021\/05\/Theresa-M.-e1620935833389.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}