Quote Originally Posted by pulisa View Post
I actually don't see it as an illness, more of a condition. It came on after I had pleurisy but that just may have been a coincidence. As you say, it doesn't matter anyway-it's just something to be managed without the need to catastrophise.
A lot of these kind of chronic conditions come on after viruses or trauma etc, so you may be right there. FMS is a condition, but saying illness is reflective of how bad I feel at this moment which is in the middle of a very painful flare-up. On my good days, it's simply a pain in the arse.