by fibromyalgiacia on Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:25 am
I am new to Fibromyalgia Support. org . Yet, I have had FM for years, since spinal injuries and arm nerve injuries from work caused events. The spinal trauma was treated both conservatively and with surgery. However, the NSAID is significant someway to the onset of fibromyalgia that followed injury and surgery. At the time I went through the same hell that many of you must have gone through. The AMA allegedly having met in D.C. chose to let people think this condition called Fibromyalgia was all psychological, as they had determined that if they stated the truth that fibromyalgia is a disease it would over-welm the social Security system with disabled people. This left many people to suffer alone, with under-caring, unconcerned doctors. A doctor at Mayo Clinic went against the trend, but told me not to tell. He stated that my condition was Fibromyalgia and they he knew it was caused by the traumatic spinal cord injury, but he stated because he was here from outside the nation he had to go along with Mayo Clinic and the AMA. Since those days some major medical clinics allegely have changed (as red faced as they have been since) their position on Fibromyalgia and have slowly progressed toward truth.
They now say CENTRAL SENSATIZATION is the theory to go with. Of course, most who have fibromyalgia know that these people who print CS theory need to be sued. Those who have fibromyalgia have a higher pain tolerance then most who do not have it. It comes from repeated sufferings during flare-ups. Most had higher pain tolerances to begin with. I would recommend more law suits for malpractice and class action lawsuits. It might be a wake up call that people, patients should not be thrown away by the system over dollars.
The reason so few lawsuits have been filed by FM patients is due to most needing to avoid stress, due to it's being a trigger in FM.
Perhaps a class action lawsuit against each major offending physician, clinic, think group might be the key to reversal and to stopping hte abuse of FM patients.
