IDAHO FALLS - Fibromyalgia affects 10-million people in the United States, Jerry Bolm was one of them. He just didn't know it.

Six months ago, Bolm couldn't even stand when he was tested for balance. He would simply fall over. Because of that, Dr. Wirwick is looking for mis-firing nerves; nerves that wouldn't allow Jerry to touch his nose.

"Woke up with the flu one morning, thought it was the flu, achy all over, no energy, fever," says Bolm.

Over the last 16 years, Jerry has spent his entire life savings $100,000 on doctors mis-diagnosing him; he had to quit working because of the pain. He didn't have the flu. He has fibromyalgia and traveled from here to Arizona- to figure that out... at the Mayo Clinic.

"It's suppose to be the number one clinic with the number one doctors, so i went," says Bolm. "It was the end of what I thought was my life, it was very sad for me, I went through a lot of depression after that diagnosis, because i came back here with no hope."

Last June Jerry bumped into a friend, who also suffered from fibromyalgia- and told him, "check out Dr. Wirick, he can get rid of your pain."

"No way that can possibly work, no drugs, the cost was very low, so side effects, I've been living with side effects for years with all the drugs that I was on," says Bolm.
Dr. Wirick has seen dozens of patients with fibromyalgia, and has found a way to ease their suffering, with just physical medicine.

"Your nerves are just like muscles, you can exercise them and make them stronger, or you've heard the term, use it or lose it, if you don't exercise them they can actually get weaker and you could lose them," says Dr. Brady Wirwick.

He treated Jerry three times a week, for months, now once a week. Migraines, light, and depression no longer affect him.

"A lot of the people that i see are depressed and so run down because they've been told it doesn't exist it's in your head, there's nothing we can do, don't give up hope, there are still things that can be done," says Wirwick.

"I was going through my lowest lows, and then all of a sudden it breaks like a fever and there was no pain," says Bolm.