Well the main drug used to treat Fibromyalgia is Lyrica. A drug given to depression and bipolar chicks. So I think that tells us a lot about Fibromyalgia.
By the way, there are no diagnostic tests for fibromyalgia.
The “disease” and the treatment exist between the ears.
Actually it's not. Lyrica is pregabalin (an antiepileptic drug approved by the FDA in 2004). It is a piss poor pain reliever. Take too many (slang: "budweiser" in the UK) and it will GIVE you seizures.
The psych patients are the only ones who ever mention Fibromyalgia when asked about their medical histories. In my ambulance, anyway.
What a ridiculously uninformed remark.
I battled fibro symptoms for 9 years. Constant pain, migraines that lasted for months without relief, my joints swelled so badly it would make holding a pen painful, chronic fatigue due to insomnia. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Lyrica caused the right side of my face to collapse like a Bells Palsy seizure. I told my husband to divorce me because I didnt want him shackled to a lifetime as caregiver.
I was not out of shape. 5’8” and 140 lbs after 3 kids, I could still rock a dress and heels. It took years, and thousands in doctors Bill’s, to finally find a cure - food allergies. Changed my diet, used a system cleanse, and 9 years of agony disappeared in 3 days.
In my head? If you said that to my husband, he would pummel you into the dirt for such an insult.
Who imparted that piece of TRASH info to you? I’ve dealt with FMS for 35 yrs+, crap was a Syndrome when the Rheumatologist first diagnosed it. They are close to a blood test for it now.
Lyrica is a CRAP ADDICTIVE DRUG as is Neurotin. Worse than Heroin. Is Lyme’s, Lupus, a Imagined Disease? Just because it happens to hit 1 particular segment of the population harder than others doesn’t make it less real. 80% women/20% men. Researchers are stupid and don’t consider it starts at Puberty with the first hormone shift, it’s minor at that stage, till a woman hits Peri-Menopause, going full blown at Menopause either natural or Surgical. Every Pregnancy hormone shift also effects FMS.
Duchenes MD which is the worse of the 7 forms of MD, is a Male disease, but it is passed on by the Female though and skips generations.
Think Breast Cancer is strictly a female gene passed disease, think again. When it is in the Male gene pool it is passed on to that man’s daughters and they then pass it on skipping some hitting other females in the same family.
Some diseases do Discriminate according to sex. There are over 1,000 rare Autoimmunes and they hit one sex over the other more. Some are more Equal opportunity diseases. Chron’s is 1 that doesn’t discriminate.