Maybe not MS, but I know what you mean...
something other than fibro. I just found out I have chronic Lyme, God knows when I got it but I've been going slowly downhill for years and was previously diagnosed with CFS and Fibro. My lyme doc doesn't even know if the fibro is part of the lyme, something separate altogether, or a result of the lyme that I will continue to have even after I finish lyme treatment. There's NOT enough research and it's scary.
As for the commercial, something about it doesn't sit well with me. They show a very thin, well spoken older woman who looks physically "neat" as in well put together and stylish, and there's a lot of middle class undertones to it, like she's in an art class and there's just a whole appearance that she's financially okay. So it addresses the pain issues of fibro, but it leaves an impression on those who don't know about fibro that all fibro is is pain. It gives no sense of the financial burdens, the lack of knowledge, the cognitive difficulties many of us face, the lack of energy, the loss of certain abilities, the social stigma, the fact that it affects people of ALL ages (I'm 33 and have been sick for years).
On the one hand it's a step in the right direction so hooray for that. But I wish they'd shown more "faces" of fibro, rather than showing just that one woman who then effectively becomes the face of fibro to anyone viewing the commercial who has no knowledge of what fibro is and how it affects people.
I hope I said that well enough. I'm having a "good cognitive day" but I'm still nowhere near what I used to be
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