Jason Herterich (right) towers over Omi (center) and Opa (left) during a visit in 2019.
| CBC Radio LoadedJason Herterich lives with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that causes pain throughout his entire body. Coping with the pain has been a struggle made worse by the fact that Jason's family initially had doubts about the validity of his illness.This First Person column is the experience of Jason Herterich, who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that causes pain throughout his entire body.
I was devastated when I learned that my symptoms weren't going to go away and my life wouldn't be returning to normal. To make matters worse, I faced another problem: some of my family members refused to accept that my illness was real. Jason smiles while sitting in a kayak at his friend’s cottage in 2011, a few months before the injury that caused him to develop fibromyalgia. reported having the condition, according to data from Statistics Canada. There's no widely accepted test or scan to diagnose fibromyalgia, which is part of the reason it's so hard to understand.
My pain may have been invisible to my family, but the change in my mood was glaringly obvious. My dad mistook my stress as the source of my problems, when in reality it was a symptom of a much bigger problem. "When you couldn't come down the stairs to eat anymore," my dad recalled, "that's when it hit, 'Hey, this has got to be reversed somehow.'"
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