Fibromyalgia: Real or Imaginary?

 

 

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(13) Comments have been made

Why don`t all of you whining cows get on a treadmill or pull a plow around and make yourselves usefull instead of crying over something that doesn`t exist.Pathetic sows...quit wasting oxygen.

 

Im not any type of doctor , however I have noticed that two family members were diagnosed with fibro just as divorce is looming, I'm wondering what percentage of fibro suffers also have abandonment issues and use this as a way to keep people around?

 

Matt makes a good point indeed, but to avoid being addicted to pain meds try alternatives first keep a journal of all pain small to great marking time and circumstance this will help your doctor, two learn meditation and complete self-awareness this help shut down your pain. three, try acupuncture only reputable clinics has proven to work; four, see a nutritionist for proper diet and supplements for controlling pain. Five, learn the power of prayer your creator can truly produce miracles and is often the force behind healing. Every situation is different some people have to take medication and only YOU and your doctor can determine the best route. You may want to try these things first in managing your chronic pain without drugs.

 

OMG. I just read that fakes and all comment, well just because your pain and suffering has made you bitter, don't discredit others. I don't sit on a couch all day, nor am I on a disability allowance. I work 8 to 12 hrs a day and I suffer through it. It is stupid people like you who make thoughtless comments that upset others and make them feel like that are to blame when in fact they aren't. I am sure there may be the odd person who will use this as a way to avoid working, but I hardly think they would be on here looking for a solution if they were one of those, so i suggest if you are going to come here and insult people who genuinely feel like hell through this, then I hope it makes you feel big and powerful for doing it. I hate feeling ill, it's ruining my life, and I don't need idiots who make unfounded statements to get in my face and tell me I don't know pain. Kindly keep your comments in your own lil narrow mind.

 

I have quantifiable illnesses that SHOW UP ON MRI'S six bulging discs and spinal stenosis, rheumatoid arthritis, the list goes on. You JOKERS wanna talk pain? I go to work every day to support your disability collecting asses. You wanna know why your disability doesn't show up on a blood test or an x ray? BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ONE- ANYONE WILL BE SORE FROM SITTING ON A COUCH ALL DAY.

 

I am in hospital at the moment and have been for 10 weeks. They think that my pain is in my head though I have been diagnosed with fms and cfs. I can't seem to get them to listen. Even my auntie who lives 200 miles away from me and my cousin have also been told they have fms. It's real and it hurts, so all those who suffer from it, don't give up or give in to those who don't believe as one day we hope they will all have to accept it's real and hurts like hell, too.

 

Who decides whether pain is real or not? Can we quantify pain? Can we see it, measure it, put it on a scale and weigh it? Of course not. No one can tell you that your pain is not real, or that it is "just in your head." Technically, all pain is "just in our heads." Only the person experiencing the pain can say for certain that it is real. If a person loses their arm in an accident, is the pain they feel real? How can you tell? You would assume that there is probably pain, but you would only think that because you know from your experience that it hurts to get a cut on your arm. Is the pain this person experiences imaginary because you only have what they tell you to go on? Of course not. It is just as real as the pain felt from depression or FMS. All pain is subjective and experiential. It would be equally subjective for someone to state that they are happy. Is there any way to truly measure their happiness to determine if their happiness is real? It would be ridiculous to question someone's asserting that they are happy, and equally ridiculous to question someone's feelings of pain. ALL PAIN IS REAL to the one experiencing it.

 

I have Fibromyalgia and have had it for 18 yrs. What gives your doctor the right to dismiss your illness as just back pain when you have been diagnosed by a specialist? My doctor is rude and dismissive, and it is obvious that he wants me out of his surgery as quick as possible. I have trouble placing on foot in front of the other most days but my doctor just smirks and says "Try being a man and rise above it." He is full of his own self-esteem and does not like his patients trying find out more information on their illness themselves. I found this out when I handed over new info to him which I thought would be useful- what did he do? Just threw it onto his desk in disgust. WE HAVE TO LIVE WITH OUR ILLNESS THE BEST WE CAN - we don't want a doctor looking down on us as though we are something that he as got stuck to he shoes.

 

When I was in a car wreck and suffered severe whiplash. After 4 mo. of physical therapy I was told and remaining pain from the accident is Fibromyalgia. A lot of research later I found out that 80% of whiplash sufferers did later receive a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. Does it still hurt everywhere everyday? Sure! But I still have to say, every day is a good day, some days are just better than others!

 

i have fms im told its real im on medication that give me a weight problem , and just about to loose my job thou takin to much time off ,, still cant get my head around it and i belive ive brought it on my self i was diagnossed last feb and im prayein that ill soon be better !!

 

I have fiber s. but my one son does not belevie there is no such thing he read doctor reports that its all in ones head. It is not in my head and I really dislike the meds I feel bad on them and have gained a lot of wt.

 

looks like i have fibro for 100%!:(

 

For more up-to-date references, an excellent source is the May 2009 isssue of "Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America" (Vol 35, #2) devoted to "Fibromyalgia," guest edited by Philip J. Mease, MD. The papers present a contemporary multidisciplinary synthesis and future implications of both basic and clinical research.