WHAT DO A SMOOTHIE, A SEAWEED WRAP, AND SPIRULINA ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

 

They are all things sufferers of Fibromyalgia Syndrome can take away free from the Tried and Tested event, being held in Reigate on Thursday 5th June in collaboration with the Surrey & Sussex Fibromyalgia Support Group.

 

Fibromyalgia Syndrome (Fibro) is a chronic condition whose main symptoms are widespread chronic pain, hypersensitivity to pain and chronic fatigue. Fibro likely affects between 1.2 and 2.7 million people in the UK alone, although this figure may be as high as 10 million as many cases go undiagnosed.

 

Fibro sufferers often struggle because there is no widely accepted treatment regime and many spend large amounts of money on complementary or alternative therapies, sometimes with little or no effect.

 

Caroline Hinkes, a Fibro sufferer herself, is now organising a project to try and help find out what complementary therapies work for Fibro sufferers. The Tried and Tested project aims to get volunteers with Fibro to try out complementary therapies for free so that a guide can be compiled with people’s experiences, enabling other sufferers to make targeted decisions about how they spend their money.

 

The Tried and Tested project is being launched with an event at 2pm on Thursday 5th June in Reigate. Presentations will be made about the various therapies on offer with the project and ice cool healthy smoothies have kindly been sponsored by Urban kitchen for attendees to try. £5,000 worth of products for Fibromyalgia will be made available for volunteer Fibro sufferers to take home for free and test. Volunteers will then be able to keep many of the products.

 

Sponsors include Nutri, The Nutri Centre, and many more.

  

Tried and Tested project organiser, Caroline Hinkes says:

 

“I am not selling anything. I have fibromyalgia and have wasted ££££ on stuff that frankly makes NO difference.

 

So together lets test products, find out what works and TELL other sufferers so we can make targeted decisions on how we spend our healing pound….

 

So come on take part in this event. Lets make a difference! 

 

It can’t happen without YOU!”

 

The Tried and Tested launch event is taking place at 2pm, on Thursday 5th June at The Green Room, Woodhatch Centre (tucked behind some shops), Whitebeam Drive, Reigate RH2 7LS. Please RSVP to Carolinetraining@aol.com.