Last year before she came down with fibromyalgia, she was the captain of her school soccer team. That time it was my turn to put up a brave face. I call people like Karen and Sandra human canaries. Their oxygen metabolism is more vulnerable to sugar overload, antibiotic abuse, environmental toxins, and allergies. They are telling us something about the shape of things to come.
Muscle pain is oxygen deprivation.
That is the simple fact of muscle pain, with or without fibromyalgia. When a leg muscle cramps and wakes a person with intense pain, that is local oxygen deprivation in leg muscles. When a senior citizen suffers from fibromyalgia and hurts everywhere, that is systemic oxygen deprivation in muscles everywhere. That story always begins either in the head or in the bowel. In the head, it is stress, anger, or confused demands for love.