About me and the group
My name is Nicola and I am 33 years old. I suffer from
Chronic Pain Syndrome and my husband Pete suffers from Fibromyalgia.
We both live in Nottingham at the moment, but have family in the West Midlands,
Dorset and Hampshire and have caravans in Somerset and Dorset. So we are always
floating around the country.
I have had Chronic Pain Syndrome for just over 3 ½ years and Pete has
been suffering from Fibromyalgia for the past 6 years.
I decided to start this website after an assistant in Boots in Yeovil, Somerset,
asked for more information about Fibromyalgia and I realised the information
just wasn’t getting out there. I was part of an existing support group,
West Bridgford and District Fibro Five, that had outgrown its name with nearly
30 members and as people moved within Nottinghamshire, I took over the role
of the every other month newsletter at the beginning of last year (2006).
We meet for a meal once a month, a quiz night each week and various other
social activities to get out and about with other sufferers and not having
to explain if you are having a bad day or even last minute cancel.
My aim is to expand this across the whole of Nottinghamshire and then the
rest of the country, obviously starting in areas where I have family, but
if anyone would like to set up similar groups in their area please let me
know.
Contact Me
These are the ways of contacting me. If you would like
to join the Fibro Friends in Nottinghamshire, start your own Fibro Friends
in your area, anything really to do with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Pain Syndrome,
if I don’t know I will try and find out.
My e-mail address is: fibro.friends@yahoo.co.uk
My telephone number is: 07818 634834 (calls accepted at all times as this
is my private mobile number, so bear in mind it may be necessary to ask you
to call back at another convenient time). I apologise that this is the only
number I have at the moment that I can be contacted on. If you have a mobile
and can text me a landline number I am able to call you back after 7.30pm
weekdays and over the weekend and speak for up to an hour (when convenient).
The best way at the moment is to contact me via e-mail above.
For more information and an Information pack please contact us via email