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@brandic Funny, I was in my forties when I started salsa dancing (at suggestion of my therapist) and joined a community that went out dancing and classes 2-4 times per week. San Francisco had so many dance places. I overdid it. I mean hard fast dancing for hours without breaks. Danced til 1am came home energized with endorphins and couldn’t get to sleep until around 4am. Got up at 5:30am. Went to work. I was on cloud nine. Then slam!!!!! My body wouldn’t work, so much pain, fatigue, etc. went through specialist after specialist. Tested for MS since I could hardly walk. I’ve never been the same or even close to it. Although a few minutes of constant walking (going to grocery) will cause pain, I’m much better, even stopped the Cymbalta (my choice) cause took it for so many years. When I flare up it gets bad BUT a big help for me has been chiropractor. Find a chiropractor that sees fibromyalgia patients. I Use it all, biofreeze heating pad red light therapy belt, still use just 400 mg of Gabapentin, recently started LDN and have high hopes due to recommendations on here. It can get better. Especially cause there’s so much more that can be done as other Fibro patients can advise. It seems different things work for different people and sometimes you have to change to other treatments, as something stops working. Your daughter is so lucky to have you. God bless.