Living With Fibro I'm in my early 30's and have been dealing with health issues my whole #life, starting with some immune system issues which triggered the onset of chronic fatigue syndrome and/or fibromyalgia before I was even halfway through elementary school. I was diagnosed with CFS at age 8 and told I most likely had it for at least two or three years already. By age 10 I was dealing with the first sure signs of fibromyalgia. By middle school I had to sit out in phys ed class. In high school I had to give up riding my bike. The last year of high school I started using a cane so I could stand and walk closer to what would be normal. All that time I was slowly losing those elements of normal #life I tried desperately to hang in to I was getting called lazy, a faker, a wimp. I even had doctors, specialists even, dismissing me and telling me there was nothing stopping me from doing what I wanted to do. Stubborn only gets a person so far. As upbeat as I've been able to be in the past all I can see now is losing more and more. I see hesitance to get into a relationship because I know enough about what I have to know it can greatly interfere with certain aspects of one. I see fear to remain single because I can't work enough hours to support myself on my own. And I see no mystery as to why so many with fibromyalgia wind up with #depression.