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When Your Body's Pain Volume Is Always Turned Up
Tuesday 26 May 2020
From Kenyan newspaper The Standard:
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When your body’s pain volume is always turned up
Pretty soon though, the pain began manifesting in other parts of her body.
To feel pain more intensely than most, where scraping a knee feels like you have been hit by a sledgehammer, is something Laura Litaba has had to live with.
Although she was always a sickly baby, and even though throughout her school-going years she had incessant back pains and headaches, Laura didn’t think that her health could get any worse.
But it did. At least a few decibels of pain higher when in 2011 she began experiencing splitting headaches, and no painkiller could take away the pain.
“Sometimes I would take more than the recommended dosage,” she says.
While between migranes, she decided to see a specialist who would hopefully tell her why she couldn’t get a reprieve from the pain in her head.
But the neurologist told her he couldn’t find a thing wrong with her head. And so, defeated, Laura trudged back home.
Pretty soon though, the pain began manifesting in other parts of her body.
“I had back pains, chest pains and fatigue that I couldn’t explain away. I could sleep for more than 12 hours but still wake up very tired,” she says.
Just as she had through her childhood, she decided to grit through her pain and live life, at least as much as she could and as pain-free as she could manage.
She even joined university where her musical gift shone brightly. She was determined to live fully through the pain. But in 2016, things began falling apart.
“I was just back in the country after participating in a music concert and my body was aching all over. I brushed it off thinking that it was due to the travel and had probably picked up a bug. But a visit to the doctor showed I had rheumatoid arthritis,” she says.
Laura had never heard of the disease. And the doctor didn’t care to explain it to the shell-shocked Laura.
“He prescribed the drugs and sent me on my way. But even with the medication, the pain remained and even got worse. My aunt, a paediatrician, recommended that I see a rheumatologist.”
And so she did. After a battery of tests, the rheumatologist confirmed she had fibromyalgia.
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