Re: Can you believe this - Idiot narrow minded creep

[Guest guest]

It is this kind of stereotyping and judgmental attitudes that makes it hard for

anyone to get treatment with this illness or be believed. If anything, I don't

act too " dramatic " with anyone because if I do I fear I will not be believed

anyway. But then again, if I don't say much about my pain, they still believe

it is not there.

So damned if you do, and damned if you don't. You can suffer in silence and

people know you have said you have fibro.... but they think " well, she never

complains much, it must not be that bad " ... or you can complain and they will

say " what a drama queen, she is making this crap up.... it can't be that bad " .

So, I give up on wasting energy worrying about ignorant narrow minded think

inside the box idiots who only serve to add to the miseries of this very REAL

illness.

hugs,

Debra V.

wrote: WARNING: The

following post could contain some offensive adult language.

If you are easily upset by that type of post please stop reading now.

I've been having severe problems with my right lower back and hip, on top of

my upper back between my shoulders and the muscles over my ribs being in

almost constant spasm. Since the thing started with my lower back and right

hip and leg I've barely been able to walk - so I decided to see a

chiropractor.

He was a young guy, in his early 30's. We talked for a few minutes about my

pain and my history of back pain and surgery and told him I believe I have

FMS. Without hesitation he looked at me and said that I did not, because I

did not display the appropriate emotional charactics of someone with FMS,

although I was indeed the right race, age, sex, and color to be a prime

candidate. I asked what he meant and he said, " Well, you appear too

level-headed. " So I asked how FMS people were and he used the term (and I

kid you not)

D-R-A-M-A -- Q-U-E-E-N.

When he got through with his descriptive spiel he added, " see, if you were

the fibromyalgia type, you'd have never let me get through that long

explanation without a million interruptions about yourself and your pain.

I worked hard to hide my annoyance. I wanted to be able to walk better by

that evening - I had a class to go to, and didn't want to creep/limp my old

fat ass into the room with all those 19 year olds.

Later, as he rambled on about his (and obviously those that taught him)

opinion about FMS he used the word PSYCHOSOMATIC, and went into a long

discussion trying to correlate middle-aged women with incomes below 40,000

and FMS. <yawn><bullshit><yawn>

I really don't have much more to say about that except that I'm becoming

very discouraged with the medical community in my neck of the woods.

I saw my primary care physician back in early January for a cold and tried

to discuss FMS with him, but he always just blows off my pain complaints.

About the FMS when I brought it up - he said that it was just a cluster of

symptoms that were labeled FMS when diagnostic tests didn't prove it was an

identifiable disease. That was it, end of discussion.

They both can consider their asses fired.

in Louisiana