Originally Posted by
Focuspokus
Nobody is denying you the pain you feel, but FM is the easy diagnosis that physicians give when they cannot find anything else. As toddbiker stated above, there are many other diagnoses that mimic FM and vice versa. At my facility, most of the FM patients are obese middle aged women who are addicted to pain killers which is consistent with the patient profile across the country diagnosed with FM.
What is this facility? That'd make a difference...