Recovering from Fibromyalgia: Am I Crazy?
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Hello Reader,
After dealing with an insane and skeptical medical system, those of you with CFS or fibromyalgia, or even just day-to-day fatigue, often begin to wonder if you're crazy.
Well rest assured that you're not! ... at least no more so than than everyone else :-)
Let's take a look at this problem in a little more depth. The medical community has a bad habit: When doctors can't figure out what's wrong with their patients, they too often resort to branding them "nuts." Imagine calling an electrician because your lights don't work. The electrician checks all your wiring, can't find the problem, and says, "You're crazy. There's nothing wrong with your lights." You flip the switches and they still don't work, but the electrician just says it again, "I've looked. There's no problem here," and walks out the door. This is exactly what many people with CFS/FMS and day-to-day fatigue experience.
Podcast: Benefits of Sex Hormones in Treating Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia can be addressed effectively by optimizing the hormones in the body; particularly the "sex" hormones of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Dr. T goes into detail on this in a new podcast at Radio MD's Dr. Ward Bond's Life Changing Wellness.
Childhood Abuse Doubles Arthritis Risk
People who suffered abuse as children have double the risk of developing fibromyalgia. Bizarrely, some people have used this to try to suggest that fibromyalgia is a psychological issue. Now a new study shows that people who suffered childhood abuse have twice the risk of arthritis as well. I wonder how many people will use this new study to suggest that arthritis is psychological.
Fibromyalgia is a very real physical and devastating illness. And, like almost all medical conditions, there are mind-body issues that are beneficial to address as part of healing. This is simply common sense. Don't let idiots who try to suggest that fibromyalgia is a mental illness keep you from addressing all of the important factors in your healing!
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Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the world's leading integrative medical authorities on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. He is the lead author of eight research studies on their effective treatments, and has published numerous health & wellness books, including the bestseller on fibromyalgia From Fatigued to Fantastic! and The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution. Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the most frequently quoted fibromyalgia experts in the world and appears often as a guest on news and talk shows nationwide including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, and Fox News Health.
