'Hurting all the time is not an option': The alternative paths to ease chronic pain telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘My long Covid symptoms overlap with my fibromyalgia’
Fibromyalgia is a little-understood condition that can result in chronic pain, IBS and cognitive impairment – and it’s hard to diagnose
5 April 2021 • 10:00am
Milena Georgieva: ‘I have to rest and pace myself so I have enough energy to get me through every day’
Milena Georgieva had Covid more than three months ago but she still wakes up every morning exhausted and in pain, having to pace herself to get through the day.
While these symptoms are now familiar as the ones associated with long Covid, living with low energy and constant joint ache is something Georgieva has experienced for the past 15 years, having been diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2007.