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Canadian Fibro Guidelines

Shakota6
Shakota6
Here's a good resource...it's a bit technical but the bolded summaries are excellent
http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/pdf/Fibromyalgia_Guidelines_2012.pdf
happyface01
happyface01
Thank you so much for sharing this Shakota! I found it very informative. Glad to know that seeing a specialist is not necessary and that my GP can treat me! So tired of being shuffled around to specialists in the last 3 years! He did refer me to an Internist for a second opinion as the wait for a Rheumatologist is 2 years where I live.
Shakota6
Shakota6
I think that rheumatologists are still helpful especially in ruling out other illnesses. I worry that some HMOs aren't very aggressive about this.

A case of a friend, diagnosed with fibro but a couple years later, got to see a rheumy and an ESR (sed rate) was done (among all the others) and she was found to have a curable illness---polymyalgic rheumatitis
(I think that''s what it's called).