If every bra flares your fibromyalgia, your body isn't the problem. The hard bits are.

With fibromyalgia, a bra isn't just uncomfortable. It's a band of pressure wrapped round the most tender part of you. The wire presses on your ribs. The hooks dig a little row of dents into your spine. The straps leave red ruts across your shoulders.

So you leave it off. But then the school run happens, or the queue at the chemist, and you're aware of everything. The droop. The way your jumper hangs. Crossing your arms so nobody notices.

You've started to think it's you, that your body just can't tolerate support any more. It's not you.

Every fix you tried took one hard bit away and left the rest. Wire-free bras still had hooks at the back. Bralettes had thin straps that cut in. Sports bras got rid of the hooks, then squeezed so tightly you could barely breathe, and rolled up under your bust.

Thin elastic bands ride up. Narrow straps carry all the weight on one stripe of skin. A tiny metal hook sits exactly where you're sorest.

It only takes one hard point to set a sensitive body off. That's why 'nearly comfortable' never was. You weren't being fussy. You were feeling every single seam they left in.

Here's what nobody in the high-street fitting room explains. A bra holds your weight somewhere. In a normal bra that's a few narrow places: two thin straps, a strip of wire, a clasp at your spine. All the load concentrates there, and a sensitive body reads concentrated pressure as pain.

Spread that same weight over wide, soft fabric and there's no single spot left to flare.

That means three things. Nothing rigid: no wire, no hooks, no clasps. Wide, cushioned straps instead of thin ones. And one broad, smooth band and back panel, so the hold comes from the whole width of you rather than a line of elastic.

The ShapeChic Original Bra is built exactly that way. There's no wire. There are no hooks and no clasps. You pull it over your head like a vest, so there's no fiddling behind your back with sore shoulders.

The straps are wide and cushioned, so the weight spreads instead of cutting in. The sides come up full and gather the spill under your arms. One wide, smooth back panel flattens back rolls without a single fastening pressing into your spine.

The cups are soft lace, and the lift comes from the shaping of the fabric, not a wire. Sizes run S to 4XL, in seven colours.

Put it on and run your fingers along your back. Smooth. No hook bump, no clasp. Lift your arms. The band stays put instead of riding up, because it's wide and sits flat.

Look at your shoulders when you take it off. No red ruts, because the cushioned straps never concentrated the weight. Check under your bust. No groove, because there's no wire there to make one.

Then look in the mirror in a fitted jumper. Lifted. Smooth at the back. The bulge under the arms tucked in. Women tell us they look a dress size or two smaller and stand taller, simply because everything is held where it should be.

This is what it gives back. Pulling on your favourite jumper and liking what you see. Doing the school run without folding your arms. Sitting through a long hospital appointment without counting the minutes until you can take it off.

On a flare day, you can still wear support, because there's nothing in it to fight with.

You stop choosing between pain and feeling exposed. You stop dressing round your chest. You just get dressed, and feel like yourself again.

Go back to that sofa, the heat pad, the bra thrown aside. That doesn't have to be how it goes any more.

Right now ShapeChic is running Buy 1, Get 2 FREE, so you get three bras: one for wearing, one in the wash, one spare for the worst days. Delivery is free and you've 30 days from delivery to return it if it isn't right.

The offer won't stay. Pick your size, S to 4XL, choose your colours and give your body support that doesn't hurt.