I am so sick and tired of fibro forums and their stupid rules that I could scream!  I have been banned from two today alone just for posting info about my website.  I just don't get it...do you really want to help people or not?  Since the best defense against fibro is information, why would you operate a forum and not allow people to tell others where they can get information about fibro?????  It's not like my forum is this big money maker...God knows I haven't made a cent off of the site or the forum and only want to help people.  Pro-Health is this big website that claims to have the most fibromyalgia articles on the net and I had several links to their site from my own.  Not as an affiliate mind you, but simply because my goal is to offer all of the references that I can to my vistors.  Well, they have a rule against "advertising" on their forum and members are not allowed to post URL's at all.  I didn't catch that when I read the terms, only that I couldn't advertise.  Since my site is non-profit I didn't think inviting people to my site would be considered advertising.  They edited my post, sent me a nastygram and then banned me.  So, Pro-Health, you can bite me and I will never set up another link to your site ever again.  I will find other resources for my visitors and don't need your site or your freaking forum!  I guess that is the difference between sincerely wanting to help people and just wanting to make money.  Their forum sucks anyway so no big loss, except to anyone who may have visited my site and gained information that would have helped them in their struggle with fibro.  Sorry guys, I tried.

Do I sound frustrated?  I am!  95% of my time is devoted to the website and to the forum, trying to spread awareness about this crappy disease and make it easier for others who have it.  The forum has been up for a month and even with all of my efforts, only has three members, counting me!  I mean, what do I have to do, stand naked holding a sign to get people to join?  I can't even get my own family to log into the damn thing!  I put so much work into it and it just sits there, empty with noone using it.    If I cannot even be productive with IT then what am I good for?  I can't work.  I don't have a real life because I am always sick.  My whole family is nine hundred miles away and even they are sick of hearing abt fibro.  My son doesn't care about me, my husband is gone and I am not worth a crap for anything. 

This is ridiculous.  Sitting here crying over a forum...some days it just doesn't pay to gnaw through the straps.