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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FM/CFS rating scale. What number are you?
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CFS/Fibromyalgia Rating Scale
-- 100 Fully recovered. Normal activity level with no symptoms. -- 90 Normal activity level with mild symptoms at times. -- 80 Near normal activity level with some symptoms. -- 70 Able to work full time but with difficulty. Mostly mild symptoms. -- 60 Able to do about 6-7 hours of work a day. Mostly mild to moderate symptoms. -- 50 Able to do about 4-5 hours a day of work or similar activity at home. Daily rests required. Symptoms mostly moderate. -- 40 Able to leave house every day. Moderate symptoms on average. Able to do about 3-4 hours a day of work or activity like housework, shopping, using computer. -- 30 Able to leave house several times a week. Moderate to severe symptoms much of the time. Able to do about 2 hours a day of work at home or activity like housework, shopping, using computer. -- 20 Able to leave house once or twice a week. Moderate to severe symptoms. Able to concentrate for 1 hour or less per day. -- 10 Mostly bedridden. Severe symptoms. -- 0 Bedridden constantly. Unable to care for self. This scale was copied from recoveryfromcfs.org by Bruce Campbell, PhD. I find myself to be a 50 but because I work I am forced to be a 70. This is probably why I have those 30 type days. What number are you? Jeanne Posted on 07/09/09, 05:07 pm |
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I'm about a 30-40 according to this scale....but I do dip down to a 10 at times.
I can't say I've ever been bedridden. Even after surgeries. 
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I am about 30-40 - sometimes lower, as wonderbaby, I am not bedridden, because I refuse to stay in my bed. I suppose I have been sofa bound.
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I'd say a 30 at this point-is this a recognized method, ie, disability? It would be so useful-
Blessings, Angel
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i am mostly a thirty but i hav been bed ridden, that was only three days, but the pain!!!!
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I go between 30 & 40...Depends on the day and what I did yesterday.
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I am about a 30 sometimes 20 however I tend to push myself til I can't go anymore... so I do go more than 2 hours but it is hard...never have been bedridden, but have been recliner ridden..
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Most of the time, 50......sometimes 60, sometimes 40.....neat scale.
HUGS from down south :)
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a 50 during the week because i HAVE to go to work....
30 on the weekends because of the week of work.
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I have sunk to a low 20. It's horrible. I'm shut in and in pain all the time.
It's a major fiasco just trying to go out to see the doc these days as I need someone to help me get dressed and to help me get in there. I am still a young woman. I should be out hiking and dating and enjoying my life. I had such a wonderful life and job before I got mono and then got this horrid condition. I hate it!! I hate that I keep getting worse and nobody knows how to help us.
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I am somewhere between 60 and 70 much of the time, but have had those 20-30-40 times for sure, and I'll never be completely free of those times I don't think.
I am curious as to whether this scale is in common use, as it is very descriptive of what the levels mean, which makes it so much better than trying to rate our pain on a scale of 1-10 when nobody agrees what the numbers mean. To me 10 is end-stage cancer, to someone else it may be childbirth, and to someone else it may be something they have experienced as the worst pain they've ever had, so to them that is a 10. This is much more objective - hope it's going to stick around.
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