"I am back at work climbing trees every day. My life is better than ever before because of Curable." - Rachel

Rachel's Fibromyalgia Recovery Story

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Rachel had an unconventional job: climbing trees for a living. But when her knee pain and shoulder pain start to spread throughout her body, she had no choice but to stop working for several months. Plagued by tingling in her arms, back pain, neck pain, chest pain, and an array of other symptoms, Rachel was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia. After the drugs she was prescribed failed to make a difference, Rachel turned to yet another physician for answers. After two hours in the doctor’s office, Rachel emerged with a new understanding of what might be causing her pain. The next day, she turned to the Curable app to see what she could do about it.

Listen to hear the full story of how Rachel was able to take back control over pain, resolve nearly all of her physical symptoms, and return to the job she loves in the treetops.



Episode Excerpt

Nobody could really tell me what was wrong, just to keep trying physical therapy, so I kept going to that. The chest pain kept coming back and going away but it seemed after every physical therapy appointment the shoulder issues got worse. Then I eventually got an MRI of my right shoulder, and it came back fine. They said there was absolutely nothing wrong with my shoulder. It showed no inflammation.

I think all of my doctors were really confused because my pain kept getting worse. My hands would go numb and tingle and it was pretty much an all day thing. My right arm was becoming really weak - I couldn’t even wash dishes anymore.

I had gone several months without climbing trees and only light duty at work. So I was getting very frustrated and not sure if I would ever get better. I ended up getting an MRI of my neck. When I told my doctor about the neck injury, he thought I might have a pinched nerve, but the neck MRI also came back fine.

So I was told to just take four weeks off of work, let my shoulder rest completely and see if it got better. I think it was three days into my four weeks off that my symptoms got much worse and started spreading. It was almost all of my joints, both of my shoulders, my knees, my ankle, the chest pain. I actually went to my primary care doctor and she tested me for autoimmune diseases since I had all over joint pain, muscle aches and weakness. I still wasn't really getting anywhere.

I went back to my physical therapist and asked her to work on my neck and my back, because I started having back pain too. Then I went back to my primary care doctor and she suggested it might be fibromyalgia. I had never heard of it before and went home and Googled it and got pretty scared at that point. Just a few days later I worked with my physical therapist again. She did some work on my neck and by the time I left I couldn’t even move my neck. I called off work and actually ended up not going back into work for two months after that appointment, because I was having so many issues. I couldn’t even do light duty at work.

My parents decided to fly me home and while I was home they got me an appointment with my old primary care doctor that I had seen when I was a teenager. I went in to see him to get another opinion, again, and this was actually kind of a turning point. My old doctor squeezed me in at the end of the day after his last patient left, and he sat down and talked to me for 2 and 1/2 hours.


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