{"id":118591,"date":"2025-10-13T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118591\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:42:09","slug":"fibromyalgia-is-such-a-misunderstood-condition-there-are-so-many-of-us-suffering-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118591\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fibromyalgia is such a misunderstood condition \u2013 there are so many of us suffering in silence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">When schoolteacher and influencer Joanna Cluskey was diagnosed with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia, she worried she would never become a mother \u2013 but she has learned how to manage the pain and is now a mum of three\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanna Cluskey: \u2018I was worried that I probably wouldn\u2019t be able to have children \u2013 but I now have three.\u2019 Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a6faf903-7648-44f8-bf25-a9f6e3db16ad.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joanna Cluskey: \u2018I was worried that I probably wouldn\u2019t be able to have children \u2013 but I now have three.\u2019 Photo: Ray Ryan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A cursory glance at Joanna Cluskey\u2019s Instagram page and you might think she leads a perfect life. The 42-year-old mother of three and primary school teacher, from Galway City, also works as a model and a stylist, and has amassed 74.5k followers in just three years on her account, @stylebyjo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mostly of her online posts reflect her love of high street fashion, as she excitedly tells her followers about the \u2018perfect\u2019 pair of jeans shorts, or where to buy the cardigan of the season. But there are also pictures of her holidaying in Spain with her family or attending events. Glamorous and vivacious, she has a likeable, down-to-earth manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When schoolteacher and influencer Joanna Cluskey was diagnosed with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia, she worried she would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,72513,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-118591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-erin-mccafferty","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}