Wednesday, November 03, 2010
There IS more than one type of fibromyalgia.....
Another item from Facebook. Among fibromyalgia patients, there are marked differences in severity and whether heredity is involved:
Eight Subsets of Fibromyalgia Spectrum - Where Do You Fall?
According to this article, I would fall into category 8 because I developed fibromyalgia as a partner in crime with an autoimmune disease, in my case Sjogren's syndrome. I have long contended that there is more than one kind of fibromyalgia, if for no other reason than that some people seem to have had it since childhood while others only developed it after some kind of (usually physical) trauma. And medications that help one patient make another much worse.
Eight Subsets of Fibromyalgia Spectrum - Where Do You Fall?
According to this article, I would fall into category 8 because I developed fibromyalgia as a partner in crime with an autoimmune disease, in my case Sjogren's syndrome. I have long contended that there is more than one kind of fibromyalgia, if for no other reason than that some people seem to have had it since childhood while others only developed it after some kind of (usually physical) trauma. And medications that help one patient make another much worse.
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