As I age into my 50s, I feel more hopeless.

[sunkacola]

Hi Tim I've had muscle pain allover or fibro pain for 30yrs 52 now don't know how I made it through but still here I still work full-time but finding it hard now but feel worse doing nothing try to keep dreams alive if you can and always have something to look forward to

So true, Nailgunner. It is important for me to make a point of accomplishing something every single day, even if it is a very bad day and all I can get done is something small. At the end of the day I need to be able to say I did not completely waste the day.

No one who does not understand this syndrome knows how strong we are to keep doing what we do daily while in pain. It's true that we don't know how we do it. People have even asked me how I kept going with a full time business that involved heavy physical work much of the time and was very demanding mentally as well
But you just do what you have to do, right? Hang in there and come here for support. that is what we are here for.