The Struggle is Real. Fibromyalgia Is a Very Real Disease
Today's thoughts on fibromyalgia
More is known about fibromyalgia today, and medical practitioners understand that the condition is real. There are three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration that are specifically for fibromyalgia. Clinical trials are being held around the world, and insurance companies have developed a code for the condition in the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.
“Things are a lot better now than they were 10-20 years ago, but if you go back in medical history, many conditions that are now acknowledged to be very real (rheumatoid arthritis, Lyme) were treated in this manner,” says Daniel Clauw, M.D., director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, professor of anesthesiology, professor of medicine (rheumatology) and professor of psychiatry at The University of Michigan Health System.
