Fibromyalgia on The Doctors Show

Lynne Matallana, president and founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association, guest stars in The Doctors Show

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• fibromyalgia
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[hopefaith54]

i have fibromyalgia t

[hspannu777]

@ReviewCam And you must be a physician...

[NotMyFirstRode0]

My mom watches this show every day and every day she calls me thinking she has some symptoms she seen off this show...This show makes hypercondriac's out of people. Finally I told her to quit watching this show

[ReviewCam]

FMS is nothing but waste basket diagnosis, Patients either won't or can't accept that their sysmptoms are triggered or caused by emotional issue that manifest as vague pain. NOT to say they're faking any more than a person with a panic attack "fakes" a rapid heart beat or sweating, but the cause is emotional.

On the other hand, there are no new pain syndromes and accepting the label of FMS let's doctors off the hook for not searching for the true cause of the pain.

[2008flightgirl]

Me, one of my sons and our dog was stricken with fibromyalgia in 1989 after I was bedridden for 6 months. I was depressed but I felt the sickness was making me depressed, not depression making me sick. I saw a psychologist and he said, "I believe you are depressed because you are sick" It's been 23 years now. I continue to push myself but have what I call relapses although I am never 100%. 60mg of Cymbalta within a few hours instantly changed my life. I'm from San Diego, CA. where it all began.

[LifesMyWife]

I am starting a channel to bring people with&without illness together so they can help eachother and share experiences, also i want to show that you can be positive even if you are disabled, life is tough when you are ill. Youtube helps me connect to the world as i cant go out and do much for myself but theres so much negativety and arguing. I would like to make people laugh and raise awareness about the hardships of disability&bring people together, i can speak personally about fibromyalgia.

[kepano1]

From experience, we still do not have treatment for fibromyalgia. Acupuncture could be the snake oil around.

[frostek]

@justnatural - It's not likely he will "catch it" though since a person suffering from this issue apparently isn't infectious in any way.

I've had pain purely from stress for a number of years. When I eliminated the cause of the problem the pain faded over a matter of weeks until I now no longer feel it. When I first heard it was stress causing it, I was very angry as I though that couldn't be right. My pain was *real*, so how could it be? As it turned out I was completely wrong.

[frostek]

@Butsahurtin - Why would the fact that it's "only in your head" still not mean it needs to be treated?

[frostek]

Acupuncture is bullshit.