bgregoire
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- Joined
- Dec 9, 2013
- Messages
- 31
- Diagnosis
- 11/2013
- Country
- US
- State
- North Dakota
After 4 months of waiting to get in, I finally got to see a rheumatologist yesterday. During the appointment the Dr said that fibro is always a secondary symptom of some other issue that she suspects that she can treat. This would be great news if there is something else that can be treated and then the fibro symptoms went away. I am a little skeptical as in research I have done, I haven't seen where it is always secondary to something else. Has anyone else heard of this? She seemed confident that she would be able to find the root cause. Is this just false hope or is what she said sound like it could be true?
She is running some more in-depth tests for some autoimmune diseases that she said were treatable and testing again for inflammation in my muscles. She said that my GP might not have been able to know to look for other markers in some of these tests that may have looked normal to him.
She also told my wife and I that she has lupus and that she knows what it is like to be in my shoes before so I am a little hopeful. After how an awful last month I have had some good news like this would be great.
She is running some more in-depth tests for some autoimmune diseases that she said were treatable and testing again for inflammation in my muscles. She said that my GP might not have been able to know to look for other markers in some of these tests that may have looked normal to him.
She also told my wife and I that she has lupus and that she knows what it is like to be in my shoes before so I am a little hopeful. After how an awful last month I have had some good news like this would be great.