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Living With: Irish Woman With Fibromyalgia Shares Experience Of Condition And How She Never Wants It To Define Her
Saturday 16 May 2020
From Irish news outlet RSVPLive:
 Órla Gilheaney |
Living with: Dublin woman with fibromyalgia shares experience of condition and how she never wants it to define her
"When I was in Junior Cert I started getting really fatigued and sweaty, I started fainting and feeling feverish, and I had really bad muscular pain in my chest.”
A Dublin woman with fibromyalgia has opened up about what it’s like to live with the condition and how she never wants it to define her.
Órla Gilheaney, an Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Pathology based at Trinity College Dublin, first started to suffer symptoms when she was about 15 years old.
“When I was growing up I would have played a ton of sport and I was always breaking things, but I wouldn’t really have had any illnesses,” she told RSVP Live./p>
“Then when I was in Junior Cert I started getting really fatigued and sweaty, I started fainting and feeling feverish, and I had really bad muscular pain in my chest.”
Órla’s parents brought her to her GP straight away, and she saw an army of doctors from neurologists to endocrinologists.
A year later, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and ME (chronic fatigue syndrome).
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