No Pain No Gain

Hello,
You struck a chord w/me when you posted about how this can be a lonely battle & how people you thought were your friends in fact are not! It's a hard pill to swallow, I'm a musician so I know a LOT (hundreds) of people & thought most of them were my friends, well when I first started getting ill (1996) I found out how people really only want to be friends with you if everything is going great, as soon as things are not fun anymore those people vanish! I can count my close (real) friends on 1 hand! You are not alone, if you ever need a shoulder I'm here for you. All my best...
Ronny

"how people really only want to be friends with you if everything is going great, as soon as things are not fun anymore those people vanish"

I have quoted you. This is SO TRUE. It's painful, but true. It's horrible, but true. It sucks that people are so "fair weather". I find that more so now that i've been sick than ever before. I literally cannot have a bad day and make a comment about it to someone on the phone because by the time i finish my complaint, the person has already come up with a reason to rush themself off the phone with me. How sucky is that! No one wants to hear about anything negative, ever. I don't know when people became this way but it's so much more prevalent since i became sick and aware of others reactions to my chronic pain.