Hello. Melissa,

You and Prescribing Life made me cry watching the fibromyalgia video.

I feel like maybe there is some help out there for me.

I am 58 years old and feel I’m living in a 90-year-old woman’s body.

I am in severe pain everyday. I got hurt in 1999, damaged my neck, had a c4,5,6 fusion surgery and have been disabled and suffering miserably all these years.

Within in the last 6 months, I have dropped 15 pounds and now weigh 98 pounds. I am in so much pain right now, I just don’t have much of an interest in food. My Integrative Medical Doctor tells me that I’m now suffering malnutrition. All my nerves are very angry to the point where I shake. I finally had an Electromyography (EMG) test which showed damage in the radial nerve down my arm, the piriformis muscle, and sciatic nerve which is causing a lot of the additional pain.

I have been on opioids for over 20 years. My life seems like just a series on doctor’s appointments, tests, and injections at the pain clinic. I am not sure what caused this massive spike in pain in these last 6 months other than an additional fall on a tile floor 3 years ago or the stress maybe from my husband suffering a massive heart attack. By the grace of God, he is doing great right now. However, when the heart attack happened, he was dead over 10 mins, head injury when he fell over, half his face was sliced open and cut off his ear when he fell into the machine he was working on, very little brain activity and on a ventilator. Two heart surgeries later with five stents, he is doing awesome, but the additional trauma was very hard on my fibromyalgia.

Anyway, do to all this pain and having problems trying to get doctors to understand how horrible this condition is, nerve pain is horrible, I think sometimes these doctors treat pain (try to) but they’ve actually never had this type of pain themselves, so I don’t think the truly understand how badly I’m suffering. It has majorly changed my activity level to just about zero. I’m sure you can understand what I’m trying to explain because of what you saw your mother go through for all those years.

I would love to have results like your mom had and to live a pain-free life.

Sorry, this is so long but I felt I wanted to tell you a little about me. Maybe Prescribing Life can help me to to regain my life and be pain-free?

Could you please help me! I would be so grateful.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, D