Anybody here with fibromylagia?

[DevonRex]

8. Yes. The pain at night was terrible.

It got worse as the evening wore on and by bedtime it was terrible. And left few choices for relief. OTC meds didn't work at normal human doses. If I took enough to work, my stomach felt like somebody was in there stabbing me with a fork trying to dig out.
Pain medicine keeps me awake. Sleep medication makes me depressed. So... You just live through it until it's over.

I'm glad you got the right diagnosis. Finally.

Can I run a thought by you to see what you think from your experience? We've all been there with being misdiagnosed. Or most of us, anyway.

It seems to me that our insurance system pushes quick diagnoses. Too quick for most of us. The company wants a label so they can say how many visits we get and which medications are approved for our condition.

But sometimes it takes us, as patients, a while to open up. Or maybe we don't know what's important to say so we leave things out. Or we're embarrassed. Or maybe we look perfectly "fine" until the 5th visit or even the 5th doctor, when finally the doc gets to witness a manic phase or extremely depressed phase.

But mostly we all struggle along with the wrong meds, trial and error, changing docs, until somebody asks the right questions. I think something has to be done about this. Give the doctors more time with us before he has to slap a label and a class of drugs down our throats. I think they try their best. But the system rushes them and then we wind up being dosed-up zombies. Or irritable cranky snits, like I was on Wellbutrin.