The Story
"It's all in your head"
Imagine waking up at 3 in the morning in agony. You try to muster the strength to scream for help but the pain has you paralyzed.
You go see a doctor and all you get is: "It's your weight", "Could just be period pain", or "maybe you're just stressed, try exercising more, eat healthier, stay active, drop the weight, you will see it will sort itself out"...
Now imagine you try everything, exerting all your energy, and the symptoms just get worse. You go back to the doctor and they don't listen. "Maybe this, maybe that, could be this" they go, but they don't listen. Tests after tests, nothing.
MORE MEDS, less meds, no meds... Nothing works and now you find yourself rushing to the hospital because you are in so much pain you are struggling to breathe.
The doctors finally start trying. Specialist after specialist they try and try but nothing works. And then finally... you have Fibromyalgia...
No known cure or treatment, pseudo effect meds. Ahh, the Silent Condition as it's known.
This is the reality my girlfriend had to go through and is still going through. A condition with no metrics.
This is why I started the Fibromyalgia Project: to give those without metrics a voice and a fighting chance. Making pain visible as to say F*CK YOU FIBROMYALGIA, you will not remain silent.