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Let's discuss Fibromyalgia as a discredited disease.


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13 minutes ago, DisBihh said:

I watched an hour long video the other night with two doctors discussing fibromyalgia and have done some research. GAga’s symptoms fall perfectly in fibromyalgia diagnosis. Idk if you guys heard but when she was listing the medicines she took she mentioned her thyroid, now apparently one of the symptoms in fibromyalgia has to do with hypothyroidism which has its own array of problems whithin itself. 

Fibromyalgia is triggered by the stress gland in the brain which sends the body into a permanent state of fight or flight, which is why patients get chronic muscular spams, headaches, sometimes high blood pressure, bladder and bowel problems. It also apparently comes with anxiety and depression only makes it worse. 

Now imagine being an important popstar when a lot of people depend on you to be well. And you’re diagnosed with this disease that nobody knows about. It’s stressful. Now dealing with previous records of anxiety and PTSD. Even more stressful. 

AND NOW at this moment, Gaga is facing the cancellation of RIR and the rescheduling of half of her world tour. These are extremely stressful situations, she might believe she will never be able to tour again, I’m sure LIVenation is gonna be more severe on her, also seeing her fans in distress is obviously stressing her out and those are all triggers to a fibromyalgia flare up.

the human body is amazing at adapting to a lot of situations, including diseases and this is a specially debilitating one, especially when it comes to such an active person like Gaga. Of course she has her entourage of doctors and medical supplies that help but at the end of the day it has no cure, and not all the money in the world will buy her health back. I really hope she’s able to continue with the tour to the best of her ability and follow medical instructions carefully so she can push through with as little pain as possible. 

 

Again im  not a doctor yall but i have done a bunch of research and its very interesting to me. 

I thought it was interesting that Gaga said her thyroid issue is "unrelated." Maybe its unrelated to her hip injury, but fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism are very much related. I think at the time the documentary was shot, Gaga and her doctors had very little idea of what was wrong with her. 

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GypsyBabe
26 minutes ago, Katie14 said:

I thought it was interesting that Gaga said her thyroid issue is "unrelated." Maybe its unrelated to her hip injury, but fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism are very much related. I think at the time the documentary was shot, Gaga and her doctors had very little idea of what was wrong with her. 

I just want to say that I respect you a lot. You are always in these threads offering educated opinions, and having done a lot of personal research. :hug:

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I actually can very much attest to this. My mother was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia back in April. She was complaining of shakes in her legs and extreme pain all over her body just out nowhere, and when she was taken to the hospital, the doctors ran tests and tests and we've been seeing many specialists including Neurologists, psychiatrists and a rheumatologist. They all say it's Fibromyalgia, and they can do nothing more but to say to deal with it she has to take pain meds. It's pretty tough for her to deal with as she used to be very active and all we do now is look forward to the next doctor appointments and what they will tell us next. 

Sorry to get heavy, but I recently regained my love for Gaga because of how much I can relate to her in my life right now. This is one of those diseases that I even ever knew about in the first place and now it's all I talk about in my life, it needs to be taken serious. 

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4 minutes ago, Deepbreath said:

I actually can very much attest to this. My mother was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia back in April. She was complaining of shakes in her legs and extreme pain all over her body just out nowhere, and when she was taken to the hospital, the doctors ran tests and tests and we've been seeing many specialists including Neurologists, psychiatrists and a rheumatologist. They all say it's Fibromyalgia, and they can do nothing more but to say to deal with it she has to take pain meds. It's pretty tough for her to deal with as she used to be very active and all we do now is look forward to the next doctor appointments and what they will tell us next. 

Sorry to get heavy, but I recently regained my love for Gaga because of how much I can relate to her in my life right now. This is one of those diseases that I even ever knew about in the first place and now it's all I talk about in my life, it needs to be taken serious. 

I agree with you very much. I'm sorry that your mother is afflicted with this disease. :hug:

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Yeah it’s fairly controversial in the North American scientific and medical community because much of it is sparingly elucidated and a lot of patients who say they have these symptoms often have comorbidity with other conditions, diseases i.e. depression, anxiety, etc. which does have physical manifestations. The issue is that many patients a) don’t want to settle with a diagnosis of a mental health condition because b) there pain is thought to actually be physical and not just psychosomatic. That’s where the controversy really arises: is this just a label for multiple symptoms that really is just chronic pain or is it actually a disease or condition. Research on this is obviously very hard to conduct (really, any research on pain and pain perception is hard to study) and because of that, not enough scientific data are out there for the medical community to really come to a consensus. 

That being said 

I work in the medical/scientific community as a researcher. I’m in graduate school and am taught by PhDs and MDs and experts in the field of inquiry: it is simply inappropriate to laugh at someone’s pain and desire to be healed. What kind of ugly people do y’all hang out with :green: I’ve heard at that at the medical school attached to my school system, you can actually get thrown out of the program for that kind of behavior, so to just imagine that professionals in the field feel that comfortable to act that way...yikes :green:

 

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7 hours ago, GypsyBabe said:

I agree with you very much. I'm sorry that your mother is afflicted with this disease. :hug:

Thank you so much. :hug: I feel like we will get through this. When I try to tell people what my mom suffers from and why I've been missing work and etc etc, they tell me things like "at least it's not a terminal disease" or things along those lines, because they truly don't understand how disabilitating this disease is. I try to give my mom hope every day and I'm always there. There just has to be a cure someday just has to be.

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Fibro is a real issue.  The fact that it doesn't have a pinned down clinical rationale yet doesn't mean it's fake or purely psychsomatic, it just means that the science has not yet caught up with the disease cause.  Fibro isn't alone with this, and maybe it will eventually be broken down into clinically known sub-issues, but that doesn't make the range of symptoms any less real to the suffers.   Maybe it has physical causes, maybe it's brain causes, maybe it's psychological... western doctors tend to denigrate psychological issues though as not "real" which seems to be coming across in this thread.  "It doesn't have a clinical cause, therefore it's psychological, therefore it's fake and we can laugh about it and just tell the sufferers to suck it up."

Blood spinning is used by professional athletes in an attempt to heal faster.  It's clinical efficacy seems questionable at this point but who knows.  However, it is safe to say by this point Gaga has probably been through every form of "normal" treatment and is looking at alternatives.  Assuming that she is ignoring "established" western medicine in favor of alternative is probably completely wrong, judging by the fact they apparently have her overloaded with pills which is about the only thing western medicine knows how to do sometimes.

 

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10 hours ago, GypsyBabe said:

Well my rheumatologist is a "she" for one. 

Laughing at an individuals chronic pain is disgusting. You should learn to stay in your own lane. Or I guess maybe you chose the right profession after all. You're a dentist, right? Interesting. I have Sjögren's syndrome and have seen plenty of you for most of my life. You are a glorified dental hygienist who makes dentures, fills cavities, and sends anything even remotely difficult to a specialist or oral surgeon. 

And yes, science is science. I am actually a scientist that more than likely knows more about the human body, both physically and psychologically, than you. :nails:

I laughed :sharon:

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56 minutes ago, Swine said:

I laughed :sharon:

Just like you do to people in pain. Have a nice day. ✌🏻

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Whispering
1 hour ago, GypsyBabe said:

Just like you do to people in pain. Have a nice day. ✌🏻

Truth! I avoid doctors that don't take pain seriously...and I certainly would avoid medical professionals who got pleasure by laughing at others suffering. 

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1 hour ago, GypsyBabe said:

Just like you do to people in pain. Have a nice day. ✌🏻

Honey, let's just set this straight, because I have 0 time for this type of mess or from other people begging for attention and trying to make a mess out of what I say. Never in my posts here I said that I personally laugh at people with fibromyalgia or any other sort of pain. What I told was that since it's a discredited disease in most of the medical environment, it's not uncommon to hear laughs when the name "fibromyalgia" is mentioned. And it doesn't mean people are laughing at the fact that other people are in pain, it means people are laughing at the concept itself, at the fact that it is an easy way to get a diagnosis for something that has no other name. Nobody gets joy out of other peoples pain, unless you are mentally sick.

What I laughed about tho was your poor attempt at coming for me without 0 knowledge about my personal and professional life.

 

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12 hours ago, GypsyBabe said:

I'm confused. There are plenty of physicians who have done research in favor of this disease that you seem to negate. :oprah:

And yes, I have access to medical databases as well. 

Which medical databases are you talking about? Elaborate. Present a good, scientific, systematic review that went through the P2P system, from a good credible source or author.

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SilkSpectre

A lack of understanding/progress in treating a condition doesn't mean a condition is discredited it means we need more research and options. Something that doesn't come when people dismiss people's suffering. 

You and your colleagues are dentists not doctors so maybe stay in your lane :madge:

 

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26 minutes ago, SilkSpectre said:

A lack of understanding/progress in treating a condition doesn't mean a condition is discredited it means we need more research and options. Something that doesn't come when people dismiss people's suffering. 

You and your colleagues are dentists not doctors so maybe stay in your lane :madge:

 

By colleagues I mean doctors as well, since I work in a hospital. And even as a dentist, I have the same ground education as any family doctor. It just happens that I choose to treat conditions from the neck up. Fibromyalgia is a part of the basic education in the health sector, and it affects my work every week since patients with fibromyalgia also shows some other conditions related to my specific area of work. Stop trying to dismiss my profession or my knowledge. There's literally minors here using google as a "scientific source" and there's no discussion about that at all.

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1 minute ago, Swine said:

By colleagues I mean doctors as well, since I work in a hospital.

Then you should say discussed with doctors to clarify you aren't talking about your peers. Also what kind of doctors are they? I'm keen to know what they specialise in. 

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