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When People Think I'm 'Too Young' to Have Fibromyalgia in My 20s

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Being diagnosed with fibromyalgia at age 19 wasn’t how I expected my entrance to adulthood would start. But it did, and now I am 21 years old, in pain every day, and trying to keep up with the fast-paced world of being in my 20s.

I was genetically more prone to having fibromyalgia due to my mother receiving her own fibromyalgia diagnosis in 2011. When my symptoms first started showing up, I went to my regular doctor to see what was going on, but she told me that I was “too young” to have fibromyalgia.

First off, ouch. My own understanding of what was happening to my body was already all over the place. Even to this day I still wonder, “Am I faking this?” but almost immediately after, I get a wave of pain in my back that reassures me my fibromyalgia is real and is always with me.

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