Many fibromyalgia patients experience symptoms for years before getting an official diagnosis, only to discover that is just the beginning of a life-long journey. Dealing with this chronic and often difficult condition is not an easy task. Fibromyalgia patients don't just have the physical and emotional symptoms to handle, they also must wrestle with all the misunderstanding and misinformation surrounding this disease. The good news is that it is possible to live well with this difficult disease. Fibromyalgia isn't a "life sentence" to pain and suffering. It does need to be managed like any other illness, but there are things that friends and family members can do to help. People can and should live quite well with fibromyalgia. This book, told from the prospective of someone with that very diagnosis, aims to help not just the patient but friends and family members live well with fibromyalgia.