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Mar. 4th, 2010 01:23 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/04/health/healthguide/TE_fibromyalgia.html?ref=health
Also: You know what amuses me? When people say, "Well, I haven't seen any medical texts from thirty years ago mentioning fibromyalgia. Nobody had fibromyalgia thirty years ago, therefore it is fake." That's why I laugh and clap whenever someone says, "I've had fibromyalgia for thirty-five years, they just didn't know what to call it."
I don't understand the weird rationale that some skeptics have. What, like their observations and opinions are the only ones that matter? Really? Oh, good to know. Yeah, not wasting my time with that.
I once found myself immersed in a heated discussion with a troll, in a fibromyalgia forum. The troll kept demanding to know why antidepressants were commonly prescribed for fibromyalgia. Troll insisted that fibromyalgia was a psychiatric problem and therefore "not real" and didn't even listen when people tried to explain the chemical functions of antidepressants (you know, serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins, pain receptors, etc). It was insane after a while. Troll got banned.
But it highlights a good point: People in our society and culture become conditioned to expect certain things because of names and words. How could a medication for chronic depression treat chronic pain? Education needs to happen. Oh, wait, we can't even get proper grammar and vocabulary education anymore. Silly me, assuming people can be educated well without bias in most places.
Also: You know what amuses me? When people say, "Well, I haven't seen any medical texts from thirty years ago mentioning fibromyalgia. Nobody had fibromyalgia thirty years ago, therefore it is fake." That's why I laugh and clap whenever someone says, "I've had fibromyalgia for thirty-five years, they just didn't know what to call it."
I don't understand the weird rationale that some skeptics have. What, like their observations and opinions are the only ones that matter? Really? Oh, good to know. Yeah, not wasting my time with that.
I once found myself immersed in a heated discussion with a troll, in a fibromyalgia forum. The troll kept demanding to know why antidepressants were commonly prescribed for fibromyalgia. Troll insisted that fibromyalgia was a psychiatric problem and therefore "not real" and didn't even listen when people tried to explain the chemical functions of antidepressants (you know, serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins, pain receptors, etc). It was insane after a while. Troll got banned.
But it highlights a good point: People in our society and culture become conditioned to expect certain things because of names and words. How could a medication for chronic depression treat chronic pain? Education needs to happen. Oh, wait, we can't even get proper grammar and vocabulary education anymore. Silly me, assuming people can be educated well without bias in most places.
