Roseinterrupted, I'm 53 and was only recently diagnosed. We're never too old to learn new coping skill, I think anyway. I'm not fond of this diagnosis but I am learning as much as I can about it because there was, like you, so many years of total chaos and pain. I feel I owe it to myself to learn to live a little. Some of my symptoms have lessened with age but there are plenty left that are preventing me from having a 'normal' life and I'm sick and tired of running.............I'm having a good day today and while I'm very isolated and cocooned in my own little world, at least I can relax and not worry about meeting anyone, because it just leads to stress, tense muscles and more of the same etc etc....