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<p class="lead_text">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a fibro fighter.&rdquo;</p>
<p>That is how 61-year-old Vikki Owens of Seattle, Wash., describes her 25-year battle to manage her fibromyalgia.</p>
<p>Diagnosed in 1993, Vikki at one point was taking nine drugs, including painkillers, muscle relaxants, headache and sleep meds, and antidepressants. None of them gave her much relief. It wasn&rsquo;t until 2009 that she finally developed a regimen that gave her back her life.</p>
<p>Today, thanks to exercise, therapy, massage, herbal and vitamin supplements, and a change in diet, Vikki has been able to slowly wean herself off prescription drugs.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;As patients, we&rsquo;ve been conditioned to expect a magical pill to solve everything, but we have to start owning our own health.&rdquo;</p>
<span>&ndash; Vikki Owens</span></blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;For the last three years, I have been able to fully function as a normal person,&rdquo; she says. In fact, she adds proudly, &ldquo;On my 60th birthday last year, I went to an indoor cycling class. And now I go twice a week.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Listening to her, it&rsquo;s hard to believe that this optimistic, energetic woman once could barely walk her three children to school in the morning. &ldquo;I would walk with them there, but on the way back I would have to stop and sit and cry, I was in so much pain.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Doctors tried to help her. &ldquo;They would give me medications they thought would help, but it didn&rsquo;t. It just made it hard to function.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The continued pain, depression, and other mental side effects, known as &ldquo;fibro fog,&rdquo; made it difficult to keep a job or do things with her husband and children. &ldquo;Some days the pain was so bad, I couldn&rsquo;t get out of bed.&rdquo;</p>
<p>What changed, Vikki acknowledges, was her attitude and determination to find a better way to manage her health.</p>
<p>&ldquo;As patients, we&rsquo;ve been conditioned to expect a magical pill to solve everything, but we have to start owning our own health,&rdquo; she says. She knew that with fibromyalgia, the nervous system amplifies how the body senses pain. The question was how to quiet those pain messages without drugs.</p>
<p>Vikki began looking into research involving complementary health practices.</p>
<p>She read about supplements that could be helpful as well as other kinds of approaches&mdash;such as massage therapy, tai chi, yoga, and cognitive behavioral therapy&mdash;on the website for NIH&rsquo;s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.</p>
<p>Cognitive behavioral therapy helped her feel more stable, she says. And an herbalist she consulted suggested some supplements and dietary changes.</p>
<p>She also forced herself to become more active.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to exercise because I was in so much pain, but you have to move,&rdquo; she says. She began slowly, first with tai chi, then yoga and dance before finally trying the high-energy, indoor cycling classes. She credits exercise with increasing both her stamina and her emotional stability.</p>
<p>Today, Vikki and her husband run an IT consulting firm. Her days are busy and satisfying. When asked for advice for other fibromyalgia patients, she&rsquo;s forthright: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be a victim. Take it one day at a time and find something that works for you.&rdquo;</p>
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