i was wondering sense i had heard a few people with autism mention their mothers having fibromyalgia, i even posted a thread here and alot of you replied confirming fibro moms very commonly have autie kids.


but the rabbit hole goes deeper.

i asked some autistic females, do they also have fibromyalgia?
the answer, all twelve women who answered DO have it.

wow.

and doctors arent looking into this why?

i want these doctors to know that hey ARE related and its obvious to all of us females in chronic pain who cant socialize.

but more so, i want YOU who have fibro to know they are related, maybe you can figure out why, even if doctors dont want to look.


another girl said she had been part of this study, and ALL the women in it had eh same problems, so its much more than just the few i talked to.

it kind of makes sense to me, sense the four key ingredients to fibro are also key problems for auties,

so the only REAL question here is how women with fibro and NOT autism have autistic kids? there isa bigger link than just overlapping symptoms..

Maybe there is a link. I myself have fibro and I do not have autism, also I have three children and none of them have autism. This is just me though.

Hope

There may very well be a link... I have Fibro, as does a sister of mine, my daughter does not, but one of her sons is an Aspie.. so who knows... I wish they would figure this out.

Sid

iYami fibro and many other diseases, conditions ARE being linked to a bacteria called "Chlamydia Pnuemoniae" It is a bacteria that we ALL have been around and raised up with. Just depends on how our immune systems deal with it.

I am going to a doctor in Sacramento Ca. He is a rhurmie and internal Medicine. He's very much involved in researching this bacteria. he follows the Vanderbilt protocol.

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his bacteria seems to be found in people with M.S., Autism, Fibro, dementia, Alsheirmers ect....

They are using long term antibiotics for this, beings the bacteria is pretty much like the Lyme bacteria. It can lay dormaint in your system and it creates a cell around itself so it is hard to kill off.

Rememeber bacterias DO NOT CARE where they imbedded themselves in our bodies, brains, organs....

There is a reason why so many are affected with Fibro and other conditions it is NOT ALLLLLL IN ONES HEAD....

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wow. and doctors arent looking into this why?

Hi iyami,

Why, indeed. Very few PCP docs do research. The vast majority struggle to even keep up with reading in their field.

Clinical medicine is a distinct entity from scientific research. Informal correlations, such as those you & others have noted, need to get the attention of researchers. And researchers have to find a way to fund the research. All of this has to be done, and vetted, before getting to the next step.

In the recent past it's taken 20 yrs. for research findings to make their way into clinical practice. And then, only if & when a lucrative treatment is found. Clinical medicine in the USA is funded, and pretty much directed, by pharma. Pharma does the bulk of continuing ed for physicians, and they make sure that the CE is done in a manner beneficial to their own bottom line.

An example: it has been known since the 1930s, that certain atypical bacterial forms, and other microorganisms, are the primary cause of many types of arthritis & other "autoimmune diseases". This has been demonstrated in research with both animals & humans. Relatively simple cures, addressing the root cause -- infection -- are known; perhaps not known to recent med school grads, but info familiar to docs who've retired in the past few decades. The cure is rarely offered. WHY? Because frequent visits to rheumatologists to "manage" lifelong "care" is profitable. And because the cytotoxics & DMARDs they are groomed to offer as "care," are hugely profitable to pharma, compared to courses of antibiotic treatment.

Looking into root-source causation and correlations between illnesses, is rarely profitable for pharma. Although, in this case, if pharma could convince us that we all need Risperdal (as they've convinced pdocs that most autistics need it), perhaps that would work for them. Pharma likes managed treatment. Which is more profitable: multiple noncurative meds for life -- painkillers, muscle relaxers, & antidepressants, etc. OR, a treatment that addresses the cause of symptoms, resulting in their resolution over the course of a few months ??

Pharma is business. Business profit is in repeat customers. Scientific & cultural knowledge advancement is somewhat at the mercy of profit.

I like your questions & your line of thinking. History shows us that questioning consumers, particularly if they work together, CAN have an impact on business practices. It has not really been done yet in the USA, with a grassroots movement taking on the pharma-med complex. But it COULD be done.

Keep on chugging with those questions! Best wishes.