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Article: Therapy, massage, exercise offer respite from fibromyalgia.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 11, 2002
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Shedding a tear at the movies may not seem so strange, but imagine breaking down crying while watching a health video. That's what happened to Delores Longo when she saw a tape that described the chronic pain she'd been living with most of her life.
Finally she had found the answer to her suffering.
``It took me 30 years to find out I have fibromyalgia. I tried just about everything,'' says Longo, a Miami business consultant. ``Suddenly, I just cried and cried.''
Fibromyalgia is a condition without a known cause and without a cure. It's been called the invisible disability, the irritable everything, supermom syndrome and even whining women's ...