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Hi Everyone my Name is Stephen Knorr

I spent most of 2000 to 2005 having test after test that could not find anything wrong with me.

I felt tired all the time and was becoming physically weak. I would have a hard time sleeping at night waking many times each night. I would wake up sore and stiff and felt worse that when I went to bed.

I often would sleep to noon or much latter. Only to have problems sleeping at night.

I had all of the classic symptoms of Fibromyalgia:

• Diffuse unexplainable body and joint pain
• Constantly Tired
• Poor Concentration
• Recurring Sinus infections and ear aches
• Dermatitis and Excema of the scalp and face
• Constant Dry Mouth
• Irritable Bowel with Alternating Constipation and Diarrhea
• Lack of Ambition and Depression

Keep in mid that in 2000 I owned my own business and worked 70 plus hours a week and was married with 1 young son and 3 step children in their teens. But as I got worse I stopped going to work until I quit my own business and sold it.

I stayed home sleeping most of the time and then getting some energy and I would do manic projects around the house just to fall back in bed and sleep it off. The pain and fatigue were unbearable.

I was angry and depressed and felt like a failure. I was verbally abusive and rude to my family. I remember thinking can’t they see I need their help. But the more they distanced themselves from me the meaner and crazier I got until my wife asked me to leave.

So in 2003 on the date of our 12th anniversary I left my wife an family to start my journey alone with Fibromyalgia.

I was officially diagnosed with fibro in 2005. I  took a job as a courier delivering envelopes and packages in September of 2003 till I had to quit in November 2005 due the Fibromyalgia pain and constant sleepiness. I spent most of 2006 and most of 2007 unemployed on disability Insurance and sleeping through the Fibromyalgia pain and fog most of the time.

It was in mid 2007 that I went back to work for my former company as a part time outside sales person. Buy the end of 2007 I felt good enough to get a full time job in a call center doing Technical support.

It has been a hard 10 years as I progressed through all of the symptoms and phases of Fibromyalgia. I tried may different things to relieve the pain, and mental fog of fibro. I followed my Doctors advice and that of the many specialists to no success.

I turned to my Psychotherapist and with his help sought other means of treatment that got me back on feet at first and then  feeling much better.

So follow my story As I tell you about the Past, Present and what I think will be my Future.

Stephen Knorr