Not a death sentence

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Some patients when diagnosed with fibromyalgia go into panic mode and become depressed. This stress is one of the dynamics that accelerates FM. Doctors should give pretest counselling especially to teenage patients who look at it like a death sentence. Post test counselling is also required. The patient should be made to understand that there are many other life threatening conditions and terminal illnesses but sufferers are coping and having plans for their lives for example diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure all of which might induce or be accompanied with FM.

 

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No offence, but most fibro patients know there are terminal diseases (I have first hand experience), but when you are in so much pain it does feel like it's the end of the world as we knew it. That is why some people panic, but others like me find some sort of relief knowing the diagnosis. For me it's much worse not knowing it, but living with this pain day to day is hard.