Fibromyalgia Symptoms: An Affliction of All Humankind?
The NDB (National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases) analyzed questionnaires to determine patterns related to fibromyalgia. Of those people who completed the NDB questionnaires, about 9 percent indicated that they have fibromyalgia. NDB presented their findings at the last annual American College of Rheumatology meeting.
According to NDB, doctors associate severe fatigue and generalized achiness with fibromyalgia, as well as tenderness in their muscles and around joints. Fibromyalgia patients sleep poorly and may exhibit signs of depression. Symptoms that we all experience from time to time, right? So should the question be "do you have fibromyalgia" or "how much fibromyalgia do you have"? In the NDB research, there appeared to be a correlation between the severity of medical problems, how they are dealt with, and increased fibromyalgia symptoms.
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- What Is The National Data Bank For Rheumatic Diseases?
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If you were to experience having fibro for just one day, you would understand the difference between normal physical stress and fibro. Would you consider all of us to be clinically depressed because we all have the blues once in awhile? I am disgusted at your comment here. And from someone who is suppose to be on our side! Shame on you.
I really made no comment at all. I presented the report from NDB and based on that I asked questions that were food for thought. Sorry that you may have misunderstood that.
I interpreted your “food for thought” the same way as your first commenter. I’m not disgusted by your point, as your commenter was; I think, rather, that this is a standard rhetorical trick among those who want money for a particular disease: convince everyone that everyone has it, rather than a small minority. I end up in the same place that your first commenter does: if everyone has it, and everyone has “a little depression,” then there’s no reason for me to donate to fibro as opposed to depression, or as opposed to any of the other diseases that claim to afflict all of humankind.