RE: When I don't wear makeup... they think I have a hangover/Debra

December 29, 2007

I don't know if you remember when I was falling on my face all the time last

year or not, but I did do some damage to the right part of my upper

forehead, just below the hair line. I have a scar which I try to cover. My

eyelid droops and I have a spot where the " bags " are under your eye that is

like a little droopy and with a blue line. I am lucky that my hair came

back (still have a major bald patch from hitting the floor and malnutrition.

I guess I'm lucky because I know there was a time people would have wished I

just looked like I had a hangover. When I first went to my health center I

had to walk with my brother behind me holding me up by my elbow and I

couldn't get out of the chair without him lifting me. Two of my doctors. my

PCP and my counselor. didn't think I was going to live. So now I could go

in there with face not washed and hair not combed and they wouldn't care. as

long as I was walking on my own. I do have to remember that I don't want to

look too good when I go in or I'll never get the meds that I need.

Tigger (Ruth) in Rhode Island

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[mailto:Fibromyalgia_Support_Group ] On Behalf Of debra van

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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:36 PM

Subject: When I don't wear makeup... they think I have a hangover

I dont' wear my makeup all the time anymore either. It is the days I don't

wear it that the fibro shows really plain. However, I don't think people

believe it is fibro, they think I have a hangover. I don't even drink.

Now.... If I wear it... then for the first few hours I look " pretty

good " .... so they think " you sure don't LOOK sick " ....

They don't have to tell me..... I already know that they believe I must

drink alot. Alot of people refuse to believe this illness can make us look

that bad. And then they refuse to believe we have it at all on the days we

" look good " ....

damned if we do, and damned if we don't. So, I just leave it alone alot of

times. I just can't beat myself trying to make people realize what this

disease is.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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