Obesity is an epidemic with the young as well. A local 32 year old died of a heart attack and his parents felt guilty they couldn’t get him to take his doctor’s advice seriously
Is Fibromayalga Real?
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Autoimmune, gut health stuff, allergies, stress/mental well being, pain are probably all tied up in such an interlaced relationship that it's difficult to attribute and isolate effectively.
As a youth I think I subconsciously thought allergies and migraines were fake and what people called minor headaches respectively, until I had both.
Thankfully only once or twice in my life on the latter. Yearly and progressively more frequently on the prior.
No that's not true. I worked there many, many years. Have you?
I think it is real but people will always question something there isn’t a definitive proof for. What’s odd is you hear people question this but not migraines, anxiety, depression, etc.
I have severe anxiety, depression, and OCD on levels where 12 months ago I was 3 hours away from committing suicide - had arranged password and instructions on everything for my wife. And that’s not the only time. I can’t function in any way without a combination of 4 medicines - of which I’ve gone through over 35 different ones since my initial diagnosis roughly 28 years ago. But my diagnosis on each of those was based on what I say and what a doctor deemed correct (I can tell you very much it’s real, it’s bad, and it’s chronic), not a blood or DNA test. Does that mean people just make it up?
I have severe anxiety, depression, and OCD on levels where 12 months ago I was 3 hours away from committing suicide - had arranged password and instructions on everything for my wife. And that’s not the only time. I can’t function in any way without a combination of 4 medicines - of which I’ve gone through over 35 different ones since my initial diagnosis roughly 28 years ago. But my diagnosis on each of those was based on what I say and what a doctor deemed correct (I can tell you very much it’s real, it’s bad, and it’s chronic), not a blood or DNA test. Does that mean people just make it up?
It's fascinating. But the original poster just seems to have an agenda and is saying that he believes everyone is faking an illness that he doesn't think is real.
In the case of Fibro its possible they aren't making it up but they aren't in any more pain than anyone else. My body hurts all the time.
That could always be the case as well. I had a Dr once suggest I have it but never followed up or asked questions because part of it may just be residual inflammation from my RA, and I didn’t want any more meds.
I think it is now known as Long COVID.
I have a coworker that misses a couple days at a time every other week for migraines. She's on FMLA and it's quite obvious she's just milking the system. Regularly posts on Facebook on days that she takes off. One day had posted about going out to lunch with her mom on a day she had called in. Someone must have tipped her off cause it was deleted shortly after. My personal favorite was a couple weeks ago posting a pic at a UNI game when she had called in that day, and then called in the next day too
I don’t know you at all, but CF is a better place for you being here. I hope you stick around.