Lynne Kennedy Matallana

Fibromyalgia, Obesity and More Health News You Can Use

Founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association, Lynne Kennedy Matallana joins the show to discuss her personal diagnosis with Fibromyalgia and the lack of information and need for info about this disease which led to her writing a book and founding the association. She will update us on symptoms, research, treatment and more.

Lynne Matallana was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in August 1995. After seeing 37 doctors, a young rheumatologist at the University of CA at Irvine explained to her that she was one of more than ten million people in the United States to be diagnosed with this chronic pain condition.

Lynne, a graduate of UCLA and the London School of Economics, was a partner in a prestigious southern California advertising firm prior to her developing fibromyalgia. The intensity of the illness caused her to have to spend two years in bed, suffering with the pain and fatigue that fibromyalgia causes. Her frustration with the lack of treatments and support for people with FM, inspired her to create an organization that would focus on awareness for this misunderstood illness. In 1997 she founded the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) which helps millions of people each year. Over the past thirteen years the NFA has grown into a major force in the efforts to help improve the quality of life for people with FM.

Dr. David Friedman

8 / 19 / 2010