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MS-Fibromyalgia

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deleted_user
I would like any information on the relationships between MS and fibromyalgia?
Symptoms are so familiar ,diagnosis i have never been offered, whats the story, any insights?
Sherie
Sherie
I have tested negative for MS, yet I have fibro. They have many of the same symptom, so many its extremely confusing to me. The only difference I see is that I have no lesions or O-bands. Maybe I'm the 5% of MS patients who don't get lesions? The similarities are just to close to ignore.
CASMIRA
CASMIRA
I read where LDN is supposed to help both MS and fibro....I am currently taking LDN and will start taking my Copaxone again next week. Check into it though...really good info out there.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i was dx with both, but when i went to the MS clinc they told me fibro doesn't exist. and that 50% of people dx with that have MS the rest are something else.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Are there MS people who dont get lesions? Is there any more information on that?

Thanks and hugs Ellen
deleted_user
deleted_user
I find this fascinating because a co-worker just revealed that her fibro was origninally diagnoised as MS for a while...
I have also heard folks in the medical field don't fully believe in fibro symptoms can correlate with so many other illnesses- almost like they are saying we aren't sure, so let's pick this.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Thanks for all the info, thats one question I needed more information about for my personal research, if I come up with any more info, I'll post it here, but during the meantime Ishould see a MS Specialist to get a concrete(hard-core) information-diagnostic.
JC-morphed
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