Fibromyalgia

Lynn Siprelle from Portland, Ore., lives with fibromyalgia on a regular basis. She wondered how the disorder would affect her pregnancy. "I developed fibro about a year after baby No. 1," she says. "With baby No. 2, it seemed to go into remission, which is not uncommon I'm told and stayed quite a bit better until just recently. So the pregnancy ended up impacting the fibromyalgia, not the other way around."

Unfortunately, she found very little information on the topic. When asked if her doctor knew anything about the disease she said, "Sadly, no, bless his heart. I've had to deal with the fibromyalgia pretty much on my own."

Sharon Waldrop, a mother of two from Royal Oak, Mich., had a very different experience when it came to her doctor. "He was a rare and fabulous find," says Waldrop. "He was very receptive to the information I brought with me and went out of his way to learn about the disorder."

Of course, being the director of Fibromyalgia Association of Michigan, one of the support group partners of the National Fibromyalgia Association, helped.

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