How do you know what is Fibromyalgia and what is dry eye or TMJ?
Hi there, and welcome!
. Completely agreeing with cookiebaker, I just want to add that I improve many symptoms by treating them singly instead of "blaming the fibro". I get them all checked, sometimes by various docs, but just because they don't find anything doesn't mean I can't do anything.
Whether dry eye is Sjögren's or not, it needs treating singly (youtube gentle gua sha exercises I prefer, because that goes "deeper" than drops etc.).
I have a few different kinds of jaw pain, but for the main one alone I have distinguished 8 different causes, and none of them are TMJ. By treating all of these causes singly, I've got them well under control.
But my main control doc is my dentist, cos there is still a jaw inflammation under a tooth, first invisible, which I seem to be getting under control with supps. Yet even here I can't say that this or any one of the causes is the main cause.
And blaming it on fibro wouldn't help, in actual fact I'd be
incredibly worse off with all my symptoms.
I'm trying to think if I could say any of the 100+ treatments I do per day is "for fibro" - I doubt it. The only thing that "label" helps with is for some supps and most exercises saying is "roughly fibro" as opposed to my other conditions.
But actually all of my supps, esp. my main supps, are "pleiotropic", for many things at the same time. Like what is good for muscle relaxation is good for sleep, blood pressure, anxiety etc., what is good for energy/fatigue is also good for alertness/fog, inflammation, antioxidant, MCAS.
And I actually learnt that everything is interconnected and for any one symptom there can be many causes long before fibro in my twenties. Skin burning was/is caused by water & soap intolerance, back/spine muscle problems, praps stress, and even the nerves themselves. Nowadays good docs realize that, but it doesn't belong to their training or normal way of thinking....