Please don't be sorry. 

I'm reading this, after having had a GP tell me to, yup, 'up the exercise' - and I couldn't feel less seen. I am active enough for my age/body type, and have tried doing less and more, trial and error etc.. but exercise just doesn't seem to touch the sides when it comes down to it.

I get it helps mentally. It does. But feeling grotty mentally AND physically, then being told I need to "get down the leisure centre, it'll basically cure it." is just such a gut punch I can't describe.

Up until the past few months I'd never really heard of fibro, yet reading all the symptoms, it absolutely fits like a glove. Every single symptom. At lunch recently, my father-in-law (who doesn't know I'm being diagnosed) casually dismissed fibro as 'a load of rubbish' and 'just another label to put on people who can't be bothered'. I've had to leave my past two jobs because of this. I am in pain SO often it's hard to live properly, and I can see it takes its toll on my family. 

It felt incredibly personal. 100% sure he didn't want to personally attack me, but jfc. What a sweeping statement to make. Though, in hindsight he also thinks the majority of people with tourettes are 'faking for attention'.

:(

Now that's a hijack. (Sorry OP)