Cheryl Benson

I am a survivor of Fibromyalgia diagnosed 1990, and acute viral onset of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) since March 1991 considered psychiatric by 1996 & endured years of serious adverse reactions to antidepressants and other medication , given neuroleptics &told they were sleeping pills & 40 other drugs at doses far beyond what I could handle as is the same for most with M.E., who are drug dose sensitive or intolerant especially to psychiatric medications I just needed my sensory overload brought down caused from the M.E. I was never given proper informed consent on one drug.In 2003 misdiagnosed bipolar & Acquired Brain Injury causing every muscle and ligament to be shortened and stiff, generalized dystonia, myocolunus for life. I had 4 serious adverse drug events that damaged me for life in 3 months 2003, and the extensive collusion , I have been almost totally bed and houseconfined left like this. That I am alive at all is astounding. I never received the diagnosis/care afforded to those with extensive Brain,body damage & generalized dystonia. Instead, systemic collusion and verbal & physical abuse followed encompassing 6 hospitals as well as homecare. I was left badly damaged, with movement disorders I endure every day & the severe generalized dystonia the twisting, contorting & paralysis of muscles throughout my body on top of the muscle& ligament damage since coming off the drugs in 2004 I endure severe generalized dystonia and convulsions every day I wake up to, and still have seizures which I endured severe ones after coming off 8 yrs of drugs rapidly in 2004, and the left side of my body paralyzed and then when weak (and remains so), my speech affected again, my head hanging on my chest. Reports said I had a small ambulism (stroke) on the right side of my brain, later reports were changed saying there was none, written medical records says I did have a stroke as well. I am unable to lift much more than a light book, often not even that, change my clothes, or be showered,, chop food, cook food (except micro wave). Often I am unable to sit up & can only walk for short periods of time in my home, my power wheelchair mainly unusable because I am not in wheelchair accessible housing. Every document for supports after was also frauded or refused by doctors involved.I am fighting for my rights to honest neurological medical care & wheelchair supportive care housing human rights violations against me