Let me shoot straight with you. Fibromyalgia is a name doctors like to throw around when they don’t know what’s really wrong. It’s not that they’re bad people; it’s that they’re playing a guessing game with broken tools. Fibromyalgia is described as widespread musculoskeletal pain, extreme fatigue, sleep disturbances, memory fog, and mood issues. Sounds vague, right? That’s because it is. It’s a collection of symptoms without a clear cause.

When you walk into a doctor’s office complaining about constant body pain, nerve zaps, unexplained weakness, numbness, and exhaustion, there’s a good chance you’ll walk out with a fibromyalgia label stapled to your forehead. And once that label is applied, the “standard of care” becomes drugs—painkillers, antidepressants, anti-seizure meds—band-aids on a wound they haven’t even looked for.

Here’s what most don’t tell you: fibromyalgia’s symptom list is identical to another condition. One that’s real, tangible, measurable, and killable. It’s called Lyme disease.

Now, Lyme disease isn’t some new kid on the block. It’s been lurking for decades, and it’s way more common than anyone wants to admit. Officially, Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete — a worm-like, corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. This little drill bit of a parasite doesn’t just float around your bloodstream like a cold virus. No, it bores into your tissues, muscles, joints, and most importantly, your nerves. It sets up camp where it doesn’t belong, causing electrical short circuits in your body’s wiring system.

The result? You feel like you’re dying a slow death, day after day, with tingling, burning, stabbing, and crawling sensations under the skin. Weird muscle spasms. Brain fog so thick you can’t remember your own address. And because Lyme is sneaky — it can hide from blood tests and fool the immune system — most doctors never catch it.

So, you get slapped with a fibromyalgia diagnosis instead.

And here’s the brutal truth: if you ignore the parasitic invaders, they keep wrecking the place. You can pop pills all day long to numb the symptoms, but the root problem—those spiraling, drilling critters—are still chewing away at your body.

But there’s good news. You can find out the truth for about thirty bucks. A simple test using chlorine dioxide can reveal whether pathogenic spirochetes are the real villains. If chlorine dioxide knocks them out—and you start feeling better—guess what? You never had “fibromyalgia” at all. You had a battle going on inside you that nobody bothered to tell you about.

I know this story personally. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia myself, before I learned the truth the hard way. What the doctors called “fibromyalgia” was Lyme disease. Parasites had turned my nervous system into a battlefield. Once I stopped trying to “manage” my symptoms and started killing the invaders, my symptoms lifted like a fog clearing after a storm.

Over the years, I’ve seen thousands of people wake up to this reality through our conferences, which are detailed in my books Lyme Disease Non-Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and Lyme Disease Alternative Treatments. These aren’t just theories—they’re documented recoveries of people who were written off by medicine, handed pain pills, and told to “learn to live with it.”

You don’t have to “live with it.”

If you’ve been labeled with fibromyalgia, do yourself a favor. Look deeper. Question everything. There’s a real war going on inside you—and it can be won.

~ Herb Roi Richards