Fibromyalgia

catsareniice1 · March 2012

A good friend of mine was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She is a great deal of pain much of the time. I can see how much pain she is in when I am with her yet she has a friend who doesn't think it's a "real" disease/diagnosis.

Do you consider it a real disease? Do you know anyone with it?

ericandmarie · March 2012

I do think it's a real disease and do know a couple people with it. One of the people I know gets Prolotherapy treatments (series of injection therapy) and it's helped her a lot. I know some people don't believe in that type of treatment, but it's relieved her pain by more than 50%, so if it works then I say go for it.

pesci12 · March 2012

I've worked in MTFs and have heard several medical providers question the realness of fibromyalgia. They basically said the patients are hypochondriacs, their symproms don't add up, etc.

I'm not a medical professional (I worked med. admin) and while I don't know enough to have an opinion, I will say one of the nurse case managers I worked with was diagnosed with it. Just knowing her I find it really hard to believe she had make believe pain.

hindsight's_a_biotch · March 2012

My mom has it. If she's faking, she deserves an Oscar for fifteen years of hard work.

Sookie Stackhouse · March 2012

catsareniice1:
A good friend of mine was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She is a great deal of pain much of the time. I can see how much pain she is in when I am with her yet she has a friend who doesn't think it's a "real" disease/diagnosis.
Do you consider it a real disease? Do you know anyone with it?

I don't know anyone with it, but I believe it's a real disease. I also don't know anyone with AIDS but I think that's probably real too.

smiles325 · March 2012

Oh, I definitely know it's a real disease.

I know a few people who have it. I also have family members, including myself, who suffer with inflammation in the joints. (I don't know if there's a medical term for it, but that's the best I came up with. ha)

I eat a high anti-oxidant chocolate that has lots of other stuff I could talk about, but just know, it's really really healthy dark chocolate. People have shared their stories of how it's helped them. I take it every day so that I don't have joint pain etc.

http://www.healthychocstories.com/ Sorry it's not clicky. You can refer your friend to this site and have them scroll down to Fibromyalgia and they can hear how this chocolate has "cured" some people.

(Ps. The chocolate tastes pretty good too.)

Sookie Stackhouse · March 2012

smiles325:
Oh, I definitely know it's a real disease.

I know a few people who have it. I also have family members, including myself, who suffer with inflammation in the joints. (I don't know if there's a medical term for it, but that's the best I came up with. ha)

I eat a high anti-oxidant chocolate that has lots of other stuff I could talk about, but just know, it's really really healthy dark chocolate. People have shared their stories of how it's helped them. I take it every day so that I don't have joint pain etc.

http://www.healthychocstories.com/ Sorry it's not clicky. You can refer your friend to this site and have them scroll down to Fibromyalgia and they can hear how this chocolate has "cured" some people.

(Ps. The chocolate tastes pretty good too.)

This just sounds like an excuse to eat chocolate. Wink

justaname · March 2012

I certainly do think it is a real disease in some people, but I think it is very overdiagnosed. Kind of like ADD/ADHD in children. They can't come up with another label so they throw this one out there. I have seen a lot of people who say that they have it and I question them, but I do know people who really do have it and their lives are significantly affected.

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