My Life

Just 10 years ago I was bedridden with Fibromyalgia and felt my life was over as I knew it.

Just 2 short years ago I tried a product that was presented to me by someone I had great respect for. Although it took a year of him talking to me before I finally broke down and tried it, my friends and family cannot believe the changes it's made to me. I've turned into a full believer and hope you give this some serious thought for your sake..

My activities 10 years ago:
- Bedridden
- Sleep most of the day

My activities now after taking the product for 2 years:
- Motorcycling
- Treadmill (1 mile per day)
- Tai Chi (3 times a week)
- Playing with my Grandchildren
- Staying awake all day
- No more headaches
- Weightloss due to being active again
- Very active social life
- Excessive smiling from happiness
- Working 12 hours a day
- Solid 8-10 hrs of sleep at night

The Product
MaxGXL and Fibromyalgia Treatment
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What I'm doing to get my active life back

Over the past 5 to 6 years I've definitely made some Major changes in my life and am now doing things I haven't been able to do for over 20 years. I must express that the MaxGXL has been an important instrument in my changes but not the only contributor. Along with the Max I have made a massive change in sleeping habits, regular non insane exercising schedule, better eating habits and a relentless decrease of reducing my stress load all equal a much better lifestyle for me.

As for cured, I can't honestly say I am because if I back off on all the things I mention above I quickly fall back into the pain, fatigue, and foggy headedness that I had before. It's an ongoing battle but a battle I'm willing to fight each and every day to continue to feel this good again.

This may not be for everyone and anyone who does the same as me doesn't guarantee the same results as I'm getting. This is why I don't do the pedestal preaching but I also make sure I tell the story of what's happening with me just in case it gives someone else the relief that I'm receiving.

Nothing is a guarantee. About the only thing guaranteed is that if you do nothing to try and change yourself you will likely get that result, nothing. I know it took me 2 years to decide to do the things I'm doing now because I was convinced they probably wouldn't make a difference.

Life was never over for me but Fibromyalgia changed it, a LOT. I'm blessed and fortunate that I was able to get some of my life back and I'm enjoying every second of it. If something were to happen tomorrow that sets me back to my worst days again then I've still gained about 5 years of incredible life that I used to think would never happen again.

The exercises that I started with was what I called "air weightlifting". I went through the same motions as the professional weightlifters do, I just never used any weights. It was more gradual just to get the elasticity back into my muscles. Anyone seeing me through my windows probably thought I had bigger problems than Fibro LOL

After a couple months of consistently doing that I progressed to a can of soup in each hand and also attached a can to each ankle (duct tape). I have the luxury of working from home so I could get away with that. I don't recommend doing this at work or school cuz unless you really wanna get harassed :-) Walking around with soup cans duct taped to your ankles seems to make people assume you're od! LOL I did other stretching exercises which is the most important thing because after years of doing none of that I was really tightened up and if you break into heavy or even moderate exercising in that condition you're asking to hurt yourself. Go to youtube and type in "yoga" and you'll get tons of instructions BUT REMEMBER THIS: just because they are going 100 mph doesn't mean you have to. You can do the same exercise at 10 mph and still start to become more flexible. My biggest reminder to myself is that it took me 20 years of sickness to be this out of shape so it's unreasonable to expect to get back into shape within months or even a year. I've been at this for about 5 years now and am nowhere near what non-fibro people would be at, but I'm ok with that. I want what's good for "me" not what everyone else thinks I should be at.

I have a Facebook page that you are also welcome to use at Fibrohugs Facebook.

Thank you for your patience,
Ken

My sleeping habit change was 100% due to the MaxGXL. I used to fall asleep at mid afternoon cuz I was so tired and then at night would go to bed at about 1am, sleep for an hour and wake up, go back to sleep for an hour or 2 and wake up again. That was my normal sleep habit for the past number of years. I would wake up around noon and feel exhausted and sore all over. The Max took away that mid afternoon tiredness and replaced it with energy all day. By 11 pm I was now starting to feel tired and when I went to bed I would be asleep within 20 minutes and sleep all the way through the night. I am amazed when I wake up now how I am energized and can jump out of bed and start my day immediately. It was the changed sleep pattern that I believe started relieving my pain giving me the ability to start doing the mild exercises because I've tried it a billion times before and just couldn't keep up with it.

My diet change is pretty simple to type but not as easy to follow. I cut out fast foods and now eat from "my own" oven and fridge but more importantly is the "time" I eat. I eat about 5 or 6 small meals throughout the day and NEVER eat past 8pm. If I get the empty stomach feeling at night I just drink juice to relieve that ache.

As for attitude, I believe the passing of my wife Donna had a lot to do with that. I have a small list of priorities and a huge list of things that don't really matter. I focus 90% of my life around the small list and 10% on everything else. It's amazing how much better you can feel with 90% of the Worlds weight lifted of your back because in the whole scheme of life they weren't really worth the effort of worry.

And that's about it. Nothing miraculous or astounding, just going back to a few basics in life and sticking to it. The Max is very important for me because it gave me the push to get all this done. Over the years I've tested it on myself and if I quit taking the Max I soon fall back into the overall achiness and extreme tiredness at mid afternoon again and gradually go back to my crappy sleeping pattern and have the pain return which in turn makes my exercising drop off. On the other hand if I take the Max and don't do any of the other stuff I don't feel near as good as when I do all this together. For me it seems to be a combination of ALL this to continue feeling great.

Maybe some can do all this on their own, without the Max, and that would be awesome. Maybe some of you can take the Max only and feel good enough to not do the rest of the things I do, that also would be awesome. Each person is their own selves and that's why it's wrong for me to say "do this or do that and you'll feel better" because I don't know what your "better" is. I know that I will keep dropping off the Max once or twice a year in hopes to be able to continue doing all the things above on my own. But so far I still need to resort back to the Max, so I do. There's nothing at all wrong with using a crutch of some sort when you need the help.

Hope this helps you to not lose hope. I almost did about 10 years ago and felt I couldn't handle being 40 and living like I'm 100. Now I'm 50 (some) and living like I'm 25. Giving up would have been the worst thing ever for me and my loved ones. There is always hope and my loved ones remind me of that every day.

If I can help anyone have a better life then I will make the time, you are so worth it my friend :-)

I have a great family and friend support system both in person and online. I would have to say that my Fibromyalgia is my biggest support system. It showed me that it can be as vulnerable as I was. As long as I keep up with what I'm doing it allows me to kick it's backside LOL

But on the other hand it also immediately shows me that it's still lingering in the background and is ready to kick my butt back if I slack off on what I'm doing to keep it away.

Getting better is WORK! I wish it would be so easy as to take a pill and feel as good as I do. It's damn hard work but when I've experienced the other side of the pain and fatigue life I will do what it takes to leave that behind. I wanna feel good and will work my butt off to get that. Don't get me wrong, I still have days where I'd like to just stay in bed all day and some days I do sleep in but I feel the effects of that in a negative way. If I do give in and sleep the day away it takes me a while to get back into the swing of things again.

I remember feeling like I was standing beside the "pain relief merry go round" and tried numerous times to get on and stay on it. It was like I'm too tired to make the jump. But I couldn't fall asleep and get rested up cuz I was in too much pain. If I could only get a bit of sleep to feel better enough to limber up enough to get the flexibility to jump on I'd be ok. But I couldn't sleep cuz I was in too much pain, so I would go to the fridge and eat something instead. When I'd eat something it would wake up my insides to digest the food which in turn would keep me from sleeping. No sleep, weight gain, weakness, and pain is what was repelling me off the merry go round WHEN I could seem to sneak on it for a week or a month. Round and round I went, for years. Then I'd just give in and give up and feel like that was how my life will always be so why even try again. Then it finally worked. I got on and stayed on.

I used to be on Effexor, Tylenol 2's, and a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol a month. After taking the Max for about 8 months or so my Doc weaned me off the Effexor and told be to just take a T2 if things got bad. My month supply of T2's were still full after 2 years and now I average about one 30 pill bottle of Extra Strength bottle of Tylenol a year. So now even after paying for the MaxGXL I'm still money ahead.

I still have fog and bad days but my bad days now consist of a headache and discomfort but never anything debilitating enough to keep me from doing what I want and need to do in a day. I used to have colds, flu's, and bronchitis numerous times per season but now have gotten one flu and 2 colds that lasted about 4 days each over the past 5 years. I've yet to get bronchitis since I started this. My immune system must be way up from what it used to be. All but one of my allergies have disappeared also. Not sure if that is coincidence or what but they are gone and I'm able to have pets again after 15 years.

I feel good again and not afraid to tell people that. In the beginning I felt guilty because so many of my friends online were still feeling terrible and I was saying how good I felt. But after a while I realized that I'm working hard to feel this good and if someone asks I should tell them how and why I feel this way and hope it helps them to get this way as well.