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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea if it's real, but according to one of my friends who's a physician and works in the Emergency Department, the following signs are almost always present in people who suffer from it:

- Minimum 40-50 lbs overweight
- At least one Axis II psych disorder
- Stated allergies to OTC pain relievers such as Advil, Tylenol, Aleve, etc.  Can somehow tolerate opiates with no trouble, though! Funny how that works.
- When asked to rate their pain on the 1-10 scale, answer will always be somewhere in the 8-10 range, even if the patient is sleeping or resting comfortably when the doctor comes in the room (hint: if you're able to do either, you are not in the 8-10 range)

Apparently emergency rooms are a hotspot for fibro sufferers. A lot of rheumatologists, neurologists and immunologists aren't willing to prescribe opiates to deal with the pain and recommend dietary changes, PT and NSAIDs instead.  That doesn't always go over well, so the people who don't want to hear it head to the ED.  Nice.[/quote]

How does your friend account for people who are absent all of those signs, but have the complaint of chronic pain?

I trust my doctor that I don't have it (thank God). However, my doctor was the one brought up the possibility of fibro and then, decided to screen for it although I don't fit your friend's criteria at all (only 5 lbs overweight, no psych disorders, no allergies to any OTCs and won't take opiates except when I've been hospitalized, worst pain was a 7 the day I was injured, but it has lingered at a 3 or 4 for weeks). [/quote]

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