Fibromyalgia Support Group
You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.
So I called my physician three days ago and now response. When will my doctor give me the diagnosis that I know I already have. I mean a neurologist mentioned it, two other doctors mentioned it. So why is it that my primary physician won't answer my calls and give me a final diagnosis? I've had every test known to man and the came out negative. Don't get me wrong I blessed that they are negative cause it could be worse. Only for my mind set I just want that diagnosis so I can move forward.
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I'm alive, I'm sleeping like a rock, and for some reason I wanted cherry juice so that seems to be helping. (??? Weirdo that I am.)***Infamous therapies over history:1. The Attic. The madwoman in the attic is a motif in literature going waaaaaay back: the nutty female relative is locked in the attic. (See: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte for a grotesquely racist version of it, and Charlotte Perkins...
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We're all troubled.WSo, to remind ourselves we're not at rock bottom (this is a reverse optimism thing I learned as a kid):We are not living on the island of Krakatoa when the volcano goes boom!Yeah, okay, that sucks.***Toay in 1942, Pierre Laval announced that the way to free France was for Germany to win WW2. Pierre did not win a lot of friends. When the war ended, quite quickly he was tried...
I don't know where you live, but in the US, rheumatologists frequently are asked to determine whether someone has fibro or not by doing a bunch of tests for lupus & arthritis and such, and making a determination. Ask for a referral?
Good luck!
My sister, who has had it, too for years (I kept telling her - she kept thinking she had cancer), had a PCP who wouldn't give her the diagnosis because he said there was nothing to treat it with, so why get the diagnosis.
Can you imagine? I urged her to get a new doctor if that was his attitude.
Good luck to you and welcome to the slogging life of a fibro patient waiting for help.
If you want clarification, pick one specialist, get copies of the tests from the other two specialists. Then make an appointment to discuss the results with the one that you picked and get a treatment plan started.
Unfortunately, the days of doctors calling anyone back in a timely manner are gone. They are swamped thanks to an inept healthcare system. And, like it or not, calls have to triaged so the most urgent ones are handled first.
You have to be your own best advocate when managing and seeking treatment for this illness. Take care.