Spoiler Alert for "The Giver" by Lois Lowry... But seriously, if you still haven't read that book, you should get on that! We live in a world that shoves pills and cliches down our throats to make the pain go away. Our remedy for suffering is to paint it gold, or better yet-- deny it even exists. Each time I tell my story of pain to a new doctor, it’s always the same routine. They hardly listen as their eyes lazily scroll through a list of medications on a screen, finding the one I haven’t tried yet. Last Thursday, I pleaded to my primary care physician, “It isn’t fibromyalgia. That is just a pretty label they slap on me so I stop whining.” He actually laughed. I continued, “There is something so wrong with my body. I am so sick every day. There is a root cause and we just need to find it.” What I got in response was the same rehearsed lecture I’ve heard a thousand times before-- about how finding the cause of migraine is virtually impossible, and the best we c
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