How is fibromyalgia treated?!


Question: Treatment often requires a team approach. The team may include your doctor, a physical therapist, and possibly other health care providers. A pain or rheumatology clinic can be a good place to get treatment.


Answers: Treatment often requires a team approach. The team may include your doctor, a physical therapist, and possibly other health care providers. A pain or rheumatology clinic can be a good place to get treatment.

Fibromyalgia is a made up disease. It is treated with pain meds that may get you addicted. You feel better because of the pain meds make everything better.

Fibromyalgia is a real disease. It has been known about some 80 years now, and a complete set of validated diagnostic criteria are used by the American Society of Rheumatologists.

It's cause is a little fuzzy, and therefore some providers refuse to accept reality --

Fibromyalgia has two main components, the mood and the physical pains. Sometimes it is sufficient to just take aspirin, hot baths, and engage in an aerobic activity.

Other times, you may need to take a medicine for the mood. Medicines like zoloft are often precribed.

There are also medcines for the body pain. It has been found that that amitriptyline works extremely well for this.

Some doctors treat both at once with cymbalta.

Other things that have worked to varying degrees are massage therapy, yoga, hypnosis, and acupuncture. Some folks think it may be tied in with a chronic sub acute infection. There is a gentleman in Massachussets who claims that a 2 year course of antibiotics can rid the body of the infection and cure it, but his clinical data has not been validated.

There is also a sub school of thought that says it is a purely psychological disease caused by trauma and the cure is undergo counseling, bt this also has not been validated.

My mum has fibro, so I asked her how she would answer this question and this is what she said: I have CF and Fibromyalgia. It wasn't until I found an enlightened physician who decided to try me on VERY high doses of thyroxine (on the premise that the hypothalamus, pituitary and thyroid are all out of kilter) and it has totally changed my life within 6 weeks after two years of more or less no life. Also, another product that has helped is Activiv from an American company at www.micronutra.com. Re the thyroxin - well I am up to 600mcg per day (massive dose) but there are NO detrimental effects as long as you don't get the hormone side effects. Also, I asked about a natural (rather than synthetic) form of thyroxine but this is not possible because the dose cannot be measured. The thyroxine levels will be a personal thing - I was moved slowly up from 100, then 200 then 300 and eventually up to 600 mcg - you have to go up slowly until you reach your level...it may be much lower than what I am at. The changes are incredible, from firstly no pain, then being able to do stuff (even get up out of bed!) to going to the gym...and then the skin tone changes with massive improvement. Find a GP or specialist who is prepared to try you on the increasing doses of thyroxine (you will know yourself instantly if you are too high because you will get the shakes or hot and sweaty). You may also start to lose weight (one of the reasons my physician wanted to up my dose) but it hasn't worked for me despite low glycemic diet and masses of exercise....there is hope yet - I have put on 18 kilos in two years. Good luck and email me if you want more info because I am on other supplements which my specialist says have kept me in otherwise brilliant health.





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