http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/07/feeling-older-than-you-are-from-fibro/ A Today.com weblog designed by a chronic pain sufferer FOR chronic pain sufferers Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:34:12 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/07/feeling-older-than-you-are-from-fibro/#comment-2250 ff Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:18:03 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/07/feeling-older-than-you-are-from-fibro/#comment-2250 Hi Tina! Welcome back! It's great to read your posts again. I recently wrote on Fighting Fatigue.org about this and I know that I definitely feel older. I believe that Fibromyalgia physically makes parts of our bodies function older as well. For example, I have had back problems since I was 18. I was told when I was in my early twenties that I had the back of a 50 year old. I'm now 39 and was just recently told after another MRI that I have the back of someone who is in her sixties. How depressing is that? I think the chronic pain can make you look older as well. My husband says I look younger than my age but when I look into my eyes I see the eyes of an old woman because of all of the pain and suffering from over the years. Hi Tina! Welcome back! It’s great to read your posts again. I recently wrote on Fighting Fatigue.org about this and I know that I definitely feel older. I believe that Fibromyalgia physically makes parts of our bodies function older as well. For example, I have had back problems since I was 18. I was told when I was in my early twenties that I had the back of a 50 year old. I’m now 39 and was just recently told after another MRI that I have the back of someone who is in her sixties. How depressing is that? I think the chronic pain can make you look older as well. My husband says I look younger than my age but when I look into my eyes I see the eyes of an old woman because of all of the pain and suffering from over the years.

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