I know it sucks but you have to find another Dr.!Many of us have searched for years to find a good one and some are still searching.I know how depressing and stressful it can be.Please keep searching.sending prayers you find good care!(((HUGS))) Tori

Sorry you are going through this .. if you can seek the help of a qualified doctor who specializes in FM. Sounds like the doctor you are seeing is not current in his education. Don't give up or seek street cures... that is no life either but can understand how you feel. After years of searching I have yet to find something that helps with the FM pain but have not given up and for me have problems with the medications. Most important of all is to find a doctor who will work with you to try find a treatment plan that will work for you. Read and research as much as you can on things that have worked to help others and talk to your NEW doc. about them. Make sure the doc. tests you for the many other things that have similar or same symptoms as FM so can either illimanate or treat what is found.

Take care gentle hugs

Can you change to another doctor? This one obviously is uneducated, uninformed and/or unskilled.

Ok, it is time to shove that doc off the cliff and get another one.
Unfortunately there are alot of docs who do not believe in FM, they think it is all in our heads. They are the crazy ones not us

There is a link I think it is on the Mayo Clinic web site, that lists docs in each state that actually are trained to treat FM.

Hang in there

I would try to find a doctor who is educated about fibro but will run the test to rule out as much as possible. It is possible that you could have several illness along with fibro and treating them may help your fibro.

Hope you find something that works soon.

Research everything you take and keep a journal on how they help or don't help and their side effects.

Hugs

keep looking till you find a good doc! i know you get sick of em and their ignorance but you can't give up. you will find a good doc one day, and who knows maybe even a few good ones, and trust me it's all worth it!

I agree you need a new doctor - the "not real" thing is a killer - but don't write of the Mobic yet - I take it and it does cut the pain some. I know it's working when I delay getting my refill and don't have it for 3-4 days - then I realize it IS doing something for the pain - just not enough.

Good luck - doctors who "don't believe" suck.

He is the reason chronic pain people go to the streets for drugs or commit suicide ! Shame on him. I'd kick him to the curb in a hurry...

I am so freaking mad about this whole "doctor" thing!!!

I had an appt. with a new pcp a couple weeks ago...hoping I would only have to establish patient/doctor relationship (my pcp moved to another state).

I have depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, yada yada yada.

This new "doc" told me that "your problems are to complicated" and made me an appt. with a shrink for medication.

I went to this shrink thinking that he/she would handle my meds. Well, she said she could only do my depression medication and I would have to have my pcp refill my fibro and pain meds, of which I am too complicated for her to handle.

So, I called my rheumatologist in a distant town that said (months ago) that she would not handle my meds (I asked her specically to handle my fibro & pain meds). She now agreed, since I can't find a competent doctor in this town.

Those 2 appts. two weeks ago cost me $800ish bucks. I wonder how much pot I could have got with a few phone calls??? Please don't get me wrong, I am on the "right" side of the law so far. I do however have an appt. to see a doc in another distant town that prescribes a medical license to obtain POT leagally. I see him in December.

I agree with you on these people that are not sick getting medications that we can not get, even tho there is nothing wrong with them and we are left out in the cold for getting any type of help.

This "POT" doc (lol) has had patients get medical licenses to be a card carrying medical users for things like IBS, when in fact the person does not have IBS or anything else wrong.

This person is a healthy 20 something year old kid that just didn't want to get busted.

It just never stops. I'm so sorry that I am rambling on about this, but what are we to do when we can't even get the help we need for depression???

AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Dump the doc.
I have an Osteopath - she is awesome and willing to help me handle my fibro holistically - she is pretty much open to all the things I want to try.
Good luck - I hope you find some relief soon.....

I have searching too for a Dr. many yrs. now. I am living w/FM for 27yrs. What helps...support of your family, friends...lots of prayer, hot baths and lite exercise. I share your frustration....I have tried taking the new meds. last only a few days on each...the side effects were worse than the disease. Hang in there. Thank God for all this awareness know...back then all I ever heard from drs. was....its in your mind, housewife syndrome,etc. Keep your ear to these discussions. I am sure it will be thru another FM patient we will here what drug truly works.

I wish doctors like that could walk in our shoes for one bad week. I think that would not only open their eyes but create some empathy for the patients they've taken an oath to care for.

Kick him to the curb and locate a doc who's fibro savvy. I had a PCP who sent me a certified letter stating my condition was too problematic for him and he would no longer care for me. I translate this to: I'm too damn lazy to do research and care for you properly. We don't need doctors like that.

Thank God, my therapist got it. I just lost her to another clinic and I miss her terribly!

I understand how you Feel..

what I don't Understand is Why would Dr.s Diagnose us with something they Don't believe in Anyway ?

I have had very little respect from Dr.s since my Diagnosis...and I have had several different Dr.s diagnose me...yet...treat me as tho I am a hypochondriac...which I spose to SOME Point I had become...because I am getting NO Answers...and my Pain sure as Hell FEELS Real, and at times Very Threatening...my Mind starts Jumping, I start Looking for my Own reasons for my Pain...and what my Mind can come up with scares me worse then anything that may be real..

it was Not til I came to this board, I started to really realize that this is a NERVE thing...more so then a Muscle thing...and I have Relaxed..

My Muscle hurt, they do Not work right...they Feel weak...lets talk about the Sharp shooting Pains, and the Anxiousness...it all comes together...to make our Lives...Everyday...Miserable..

so Fine...he believes What then...that you are making this Up ?? or that there is an underlying cause and he wants to continue to search...allow him to SEARCH ! I wish I had Never heard the word. it does Not Explain best what is going on Anyway.

I couldn't agree with you more !!!! It's a shame isn't it?

It will be real when it comes to roost on his doorstep, his or a loved one's. I don't wish it on him but it will brush him one of these days , somehow, and he'll know it's real