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I’M ALLERGIC TO EXERCISE!

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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