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Originally Posted by fireyangel76
I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and as I feared all my aches and pains will be passed off as that.
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Betsy... I'm so glad that you get this. You may or may not have FM. It's often used as a 'trash-can diagnosis'.... something to tell the patient to satisfy the need for a diagnosis. It often keeps our doctors from researching other problems.... every pain and symptoms gets written off as FM. Worse is when it makes the patient completely accept everything as their fate, and they give up. In some cases, it is our fate. In others, it's a BS excuse for the doctors to stop investing is a situation that they don't understand. They wont' tell you, "I don't get it". For many of us, we have not alternative. But, giving up should only be done after other reasonable causes have been ruled out... not before!
FM is not a disease. It's a name given to a constellation of symptoms.
Mark