What is Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia (FM or FMS or Fibro) is a debilitating chronic syndrome (constellation of signs and symptoms) characterized by diffuse or specific muscle, joint, or bone pain, fatigue...
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Can someone tell me...what is the difference
between Fibro and arthritis? My Dr sugguested I take a bone scan...which clearly shows arthritis of knees.feet.hands gace me cortisone...it has helped the joints alittle..but I still have alot of muscle aches and just have no energy. Can someone have both.? Thanks Posted on 10/24/09, 10:10 am |
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Yes you can have both. just becareful with cortisone with this new info on XMRV and it's link to fibro, the cortisone may help the arthritis but could make the fibro worse. 
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you can have both. Arthritis is inflamation of the joints, and FM is a chrnoic pain condition and they don't have anything to do with each other. Most of the time you can have many other conditions on top of FM.
Hope this helps. Hope you get a DX soon and if you have arthritis, i hope you feel better from that soon too... Gentle hugs.
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Thank u both
Khadayii What is a DX..? and Maryca What is XMRV sorry to sound like an idoit..can even spell today tks
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copied my reply from another discussion. Hope this helps
The more people that push there doctors for the blood test for viruses that are being found in people with ME/CSF and Fibro it backs up this XMRV virus link and the CDC will not be able to burry their heads in the sand This is what I'm looking into. I'm printing these out and bringing them to my doctors and hoping one of the doctors can order the blood test that are available and if I test postive for any of them they already have meds approved to treat them while I'm waiting to see what happens next with the XMRV virus. reason for printing both out is more doctors will pay attention to something if it comes from an organizations they know. Also the article mentions that this new virus can cause latent virus to become active. While there is no treatment for this XMRV available yet and it needs more research these other viruses have test that can be done and some have treatments already FDA approved http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/p... http://www.14wfie.com/global/story... This web site has an interview with one of the reshearchers and she mentions that cortisol could activate the XMRV virus http://nevadanewsmakers.com/video/...
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sorry my reply is late, but DX is diagnosed.
Something like that, I picked up on Dailystrength LOL
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