Tasha2003

Well, I really feel for you guys and gals who have FM. I went to see a different doctor than my own today, just a family practitioner. Granted, I wasnt his patient and he doesnt deal with Fibro. And granted I have thyroid disease and it causes me lots of problems. But he really let me know in no uncertain terms that in his eyes, Fibromyalgia is a garbage can diagnosis, with no treatment, no specific symptoms and no real justification. So you figure any patient of his who has truly got this disease, isnt going to get any help from him. Not only that, he said it isnt a proven autoimmune problem, and I would only say there are many ties between things like FM and thyroid disease, and many other diseases. So in this case, I feel like I really knew much more than he did. He did suggest I ask my own doctors for their opinions, but he wasnt about to even get involved in the whole discussion. Likewise I asked about Synthroid thyroid hormone. There is much discussion about the drug being unregulated in its production. Again, he didnt give any credibility to that argument. I guess it pays to wait for you own doctor, but then again I have no guarantee that she is going to believe in FM either. They say next year we are going to have the option in our HMO of picking our own specialists, making an appointment on our own and have no referral system. I think it's a good thing. I think now so often patients know better than the doctors care to know, or have time for. I'm sorry if any of you have received that kind of treatment, because I know people who sincerely have FM and I know they suffer much.