New Here, Different Kind of Flare, Looking for Others' Experiences

[sunkacola]

I'm not sure if viruses aren't to blame for FM altogether. I just wish they knew or were actually trying to find something that actually helps or explains what this is. It feels like a death sentence but with no actual death. Just living in hell for who knows how long because "there's nothing actually wrong with you". But it feels like you have about 50 diagnoses of things that are if you Google the symptoms.

Unfortunately, they still do not know what causes fibromyalgia, and viruses are one of the things that might possibly be a cause. While they still don't know very much about the causes and mechanisms of fibromyalgia, I want to reassure you that there are people, doctors and researchers, who are studying this very hard every day and they are trying their best to find something that will make a significant difference to the majority of people with fibro.

As with many other kinds of medical research, this is entirely dependent on funding which is not always easy to come by, harder than ever these days in the USA, and even very well funded research, such as that for cancer and diabetes, makes slow progress. We just have to hang in there and hope for the breakthrough to come in time for it to benefit us.

As for "nothing wrong with you", of course we all know that is patently untrue. While the pain apparently originates in the brain, that doesn't make it a mental illness , let alone something that is not real. Please don't let anyone torment you by telling you that there is nothing wrong with you. We have a lot of members here, and there is something very wrong with all of us, if we have fibromyalgia, but we can help each other and offer support and sometimes that is very good for us. I hope that you will find this forum helpful to you because that's our goal.

Welcome to the forum.....we are glad you have found us.