I’M ALLERGIC TO EXERCISE!
Oct 13, 2021
3 minutes
As told to Kathryn Lewsey
Nessa Richa, 27, Perth, WA
Jotting down notes as my lecturer spoke, I struggled to keep my eyes open.
Age 25, I was studying pathology at TAFE.
Feeling incredibly run down, I wondered if I was getting the flu.
‘I think I’m getting sick,’ I said to my partner Jarred, then 31, at home that night.
But the illness never came.
Having fibromyalgia, a condition that causes muscle pain and fatigue, I often felt tired.
Perhaps it’s that, I thought.
A few
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