Physical Therapy said not to come back, they can’t help me. My primary care Docs know what is wrong, but they also tell me that I am beyond the care of a GP. The ER docs have my file, they know why I come in, and they are a little ashamed that all they can do is give me an injection to calm the spasm some. Not stop it.

My pain management doc says; ‘Don’t bend forward, it makes it worse. Don’t do yardwork, especially”. Yes, it does. But pretty much all of what a person does during the day involved bending and lifting. You cary laundry, you bathe, you clean the house, you vaccuum (guaranteed ER visit), you care for kids and pets, you cook…When you are the only one who does all those things, you can’t just stop. So you learn to do them when someone is home to take you to the ER afterwords.

I hate how the medical community quickly dismisses it. You’re depressed, you’re lazy, etc,etc. I heard all the stories, like it doesn’t exist. I hate to say this but I wish one of these idiot doctors could walk in our shoes. I’m a believer in the fact that fibromyalgia does have a neurological component. To put it in a condensed version, the pain started in the back of my head and went down my spine, then it turned into burning hot pain everywhere no sleep, brainfog etc. I was lucky to find a doctor who tried different meds and for the most part my fibro is in control.
I get flares out of the blue and I’ll have to go home or pop a few neurontin.

This syndrome, disease, or whatever they call it exists and many are debilitated by it. I have a very close friend who is completely disabled from it. I pray for a cure.

The website below will answer your Fibromyalgia questions with inexpensive healthy solutions. I have nothing to do with the site. I have found their solutions have worked with several people that I know. Good luck in your quest to be pain free.
Also stay away from sugars, high frutose corn syrup< especially if you like you liver, color food dyes (especially caramel coloring), aspartame, MSG, and simple carbohydrates (pastry and such). Hot Epson salt baths are also wonderful for body aches and pain.
Notice that Epson salt's key ingredient is "magnesium".
http://www.healingwithnutrition.com/fdisease/fibromyalgia/magnesiumstudy.html
Yvonne: you had also mentioned that you have Lupus. Lupus is an immune deficiency disease. Work on building up your body's immune system. Diet, nutients and staying away from the items I mentioned above should help. Remember, that just a teaspoon of sugar will shut the immune sytem of an adult for up to six hours. Good luck.

“There is no definitive disease origin or physical causal agent. Any real scientist or doctor will tell you this at least privately, publicly they dare not because of the PC climate out there nor do they wish to offend patients whose suffering is very real, even if their understood cause for it is not.”

Zeke, if you were a REAL doctor, like you are trying to hint you’d know that even IF Fibromyalgia is linked to anxiety & dysphoria (which IS basically “depression”) it would NOT prove that FM is psychosymatic! Since ALMOST ALL autoimmune disorders are ALSO associated with anxiety and/or depression.

Multiple Sclerosis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Myasthenia Gravis, Chronic Fatigue, Altzheimers, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s), Chronic Neuropathy, Parkinson’s, Multifocal Polyneuropathy, Balo’s Concentric Sclerosis, Progressive Systemic Scleroderma etc.,etc.,etc.,

…are ALL autoimmune disorders often associated with depression and/or anxiety and NOT ONE OF THEM has a known “definitive disease origin or physical causal agent”. In fact, very few autoimmune disorders have a known cause or even a definitive

Plus you only ‘think’ you know pain because you know physical pain. I’m not trying to belittle your accident, or achievements since. However, I experience both, severe physical and nerve pain and you have no idea what pain is until you experience severe nerve pain. I occasionally experience Trigeminal Neuralgia pain so extreme it’s also known as the ‘Suicide Symptom’ for me it comes & goes, but is so much worse than physical pain could ever be doesn’t compare to nerve pain. No pain killer can even begin to take the edge off it…and it makes me literally want to die!

This is the same type of pain FM causes and I was in top shape mentally & physically when it started! I’d just graduated from college and gone whitewater rafting, backpacking & camping for a couple weeks, the week I returned WHAM! neuropathic pain. So sell your CBT theory to someone else somewhere else.