Messages By: jennife72

Quote From: ronsvulcan

    I met my wife in 1997 while working in a department store. We hit it off immediately and soon fell very deeply into love. After only one year we decided to marry. It was my 4th and her 2nd. Her first husband was killed in a railway accident several years before she met me and I just got involved in a lot of bad relationships during my 20 years in the military.  Five months prior to our November wedding my wife became very ill.  Her doctor's could not figure out what the problem was and in fact she got to the point where she suggested I move on and we not marry at all.  Well, that didn't happen and we were married in November 1998.  In January of 1999 I took her to my doctor who diagnosed her with FIBROMYALGIA.  She was told it was a disease that woud neither go away or get any better.  We have been married for a little over seven years at this point and she has been pretty much in chronic pain for all of them. She takes about 20 prescriptions 3 times daily and has no social life what so ever.  Every 6 weeks she goes to see her "Pain Management" doctor who shoots her back up full of some kind of drugs so that she can at least partially function.  She basically lives in bed, goes nowhere and does nothing 24x7.  The FYBRO has led to several other ocmplications to include depression and narcolepsy.  She had a both breast reduction and bariatriac bypass surgery that helped her to lose 130 pounds, but she is still in pain constantly and non functional most of the time.  On a good day she is very pleasant and very fun to be with, but on a bad day (and they far outweigh the good) she is very difficult to live with.  She is a wonderful person and a very loving person, but the pain and the drugs have made our lives miserable most of the time.  I wish there was a solution and that I knew how to make things better for her, but I just can't.  For me, it is just a day to day survival.