Fibromyalgia

[calfzilla]

Is fibromyalgia a made up disease?  I tend to think so because everyone I know who has it is a little touched in the head and use the "pain" for attention. Plus from what I know there is no objective way for doctors to diagnose it ie X-ray, blood test etc.

What do getbiggers think of this ailment? 

[arce1988]

  They get great pain meds!

[Radical Plato]

Is fibromyalgia a made up disease?  I tend to think so because everyone I know who has it is a little touched in the head and use the "pain" for attention. Plus from what I know there is no objective way for doctors to diagnose it ie X-ray, blood test etc.

What do getbiggers think of this ailment? 

Essentially it is a diagnosis when they can't diagnose why you are in pain.  You could consider it the diplomatic way of doctors saying 'It's all in your head, see a psychiatrist'

[jude2]

Its real. I treat alot of women with it. You can tell if someone is faking by palpating the appropriate trigger points and other symptoms that go with it. The problem is every women with some type of muscular pain think or say they have it. Most do have some mental issues along with it, but don't most anyways? Exercise is very good for these patients, if done correctly and in moderation. They have trouble recovering from intense activities.

[abijahmaniaco]

yes, disease made up by women who want to be pitied/feel like the victim. it happens from eating shit. especially a lot of heavily processed/engineered garbage.

i grew up in a church where this fat bitch would attend half the time. the other half she asked her husband to request prayer for her bullshit fibromymadeupshit. he always did that and they would all pray, yet it continued forever. prayer must obviously work.

[usmcdevildoc]

Not really a diagnosis. The term refers to a symptom complex. Point is the term should be used once other causes of aches, pains, and cramps have bee excluded. The differential is immense and can include a variety of metabolic myopathies like myoadenylate deaminase deficiency to a disorder like polymyositis- inflammatory myopathy. Myopathy=muscle disease.

Everyone  should be worked up using the term fibromyalgia in an exclusionary way.

DOC
Lift, fuck, make money

[abijahmaniaco]

Exercise is very good for these patients, if done correctly and in moderation. They have trouble recovering from intense activities.

translation: they're whiny bitches.

[Master Blaster]

I know tis guy, says he got it...

[Big Chiro Flex]

Its real. I treat alot of women with it. You can tell if someone is faking by palpating the appropriate trigger points and other symptoms that go with it. The problem is every women with some type of muscular pain think or say they have it. Most do have some mental issues along with it, but don't most anyways? Exercise is very good for these patients, if done correctly and in moderation. They have trouble recovering from intense activities.

Are you a GP?

[BigCyp]

Bear in mind the stress load of going from specialsit to specialist and being told there's nothing wrong, add that to financial pressures of medical bills, and maybe even partner/family getting sick of you complaining - by the time your diagnosed with fibromyalgia there's a good reason for phsyciatric issues to go along side it by then.....food for thought.

[NordicNerd]

Is fibromyalgia a made up disease?  I tend to think so because everyone I know who has it is a little touched in the head and use the "pain" for attention. Plus from what I know there is no objective way for doctors to diagnose it ie X-ray, blood test etc.

What do getbiggers think of this ailment? 

Fibromyalgia is a stress/depression condition in which perception of minor, common muscular pain is sensitized through attentional focus and through subjective interpretations involving disease and a fragile body.

It is a constructed, made up disease, but the experience of muscular pain is probably real enough.

NN

[Dr.J]

Yeah fibro is bullshit....crazy women use it as a form of sympathy and attention.

[Mr Nobody]

I had a friend get disability pay for this for a few years.

[Krankenstein]

Predominant demographic = female, overweight, depressed, unhappy in marriage

My clinical opinion is that its just a cry for attention

[Marty Champions]

i know of a handful of women that have it or heard of have it. its because women generally dont shit enough and eat unhealthy and dont exercise and get this musclepain/"fibromyalgia"

[Necrosis]

Not really a diagnosis. The term refers to a symptom complex. Point is the term should be used once other causes of aches, pains, and cramps have bee excluded. The differential is immense and can include a variety of metabolic myopathies like myoadenylate deaminase deficiency to a disorder like polymyositis- inflammatory myopathy. Myopathy=muscle disease.

Everyone  should be worked up using the term fibromyalgia in an exclusionary way.

DOC
Lift, fuck, make money

Nice post, the syndrome however has some objective criteria not found in those illnesses, I believe sufficient enough to remove them from as  DDX.

XMRV has some interesting research as an etiology of CFS/FM. have you looked into that?

[Chadwick The Beta]

once some famous people get it, it will be a disease and there will be campaigns to "raise awareness"   

[calfzilla]

Fibromyalgia is a stress/depression condition in which perception of minor, common muscular pain is sensitized through attentional focus and through subjective interpretations involving disease and a fragile body.

It is a constructed, made up disease, but the experience of muscular pain is probably real enough.

NN

Nice post. Thanks for all your responses, I just feel this is made up bs disease.

[Necrosis]

Nice post. Thanks for all your responses, I just feel this is made up bs disease.

It's definitely not made up. I see several people with fibromyalgia who are in real pain, have reproducible trigger points. 11 out of 18 of the points is needed, I see those with 18 at times. They also have a familial history of the disorder. I do think it is poorly classified as with all syndromes and even functional diseases like IBS, but it exists. The lack of any clear etiology really makes the pattern which may be several disease processes look suspect.

[Chadwick The Beta]

It's definitely not made up. I see several people with fibromyalgia who are in real pain, have reproducible trigger points. 11 out of 18 of the points is needed, I see those with 18 at times. They also have a familial history of the disorder. I do think it is poorly classified as with all syndromes and even functional diseases like IBS, but it exists. The lack of any clear etiology really makes the pattern which may be several disease processes look suspect.

you mean ILS

[oldtimer1]

It's another way to collect social security disability checks for life. I'm sure some suffer through pains that can't be tested for but when you see lawyer commercials on tv saying get your social security disability checks for fibromyalgia if you have been denied you know the majority of cases are bull.

[Donny]

It's another way to collect social security disability checks for life. I'm sure some suffer through pains that can't be tested for but when you see lawyer commercials on tv saying get your social security disability checks for fibromyalgia if you have been denied you know the majority of cases are bull.

funny you said the same thing about war vets.. why are you so bitter ?

[calfzilla]

It's definitely not made up. I see several people with fibromyalgia who are in real pain, have reproducible trigger points. 11 out of 18 of the points is needed, I see those with 18 at times. They also have a familial history of the disorder. I do think it is poorly classified as with all syndromes and even functional diseases like IBS, but it exists. The lack of any clear etiology really makes the pattern which may be several disease processes look suspect.

If it does exist which I am not sure it does, I feel it is over diagnosed and lots of people who "have it" are mental cases. Like others said it also may be a method for obtaining social security.

I just find it odd that this illness is often found in mentally ill people and they are just the type to come down with it because they don't want to contribute to society.

[calfzilla]

Just a little odd I never see any healthy well adjusted people with fibro.

[Donny]

Just a little odd I never see any healthy well adjusted people with fibro.

and your point ?