Hehe, I assume you're oozing with irony, TJB... I know a few therapists who actually at least claim they can and *don't believe that they are talking about real fibro-patients. An example is liebscher-bracht.com who claim you just have to do their exercises.
(Which a lot of people here think are brilliant - even my mum in the UK - and use them, but they don't do much for me).
You've probably deliberately disregarded all my other posts to make that point...?
But I'll explain, because I guess quite a few people aren't sensitive to the difference, altho I know quite a few good people here know exactly what I mean.
The basis for everything else was/is osteopathy, and especially cryotherapy & acupressure to improve the fibro-problems.
I wouldn't directly call that behaviour, altho it's not meds either (since they don't help me).
As you probably realize - by "getting down to zero" I don't mean curing. I have 30 diagnoses, most are chronic and a lot I've had for 40 years. But most of them I have got pretty much down to zero, however *without being able to cure them. If I treat them right, my dry skin doesn't itch, my gut doesn't explode, my stomach and esophagus don't burn and my back didn't ache (until fibro came along). This treating means a hell of a lot of abstinence and finding alternatives to keep life fun - that's no cure. And it's not funny...
That's what I've been doing for 30 years to be able to live and not take my life for maddening itches and pains: Not funny...
But this competence is helping my pain management now. Which is helping me once again turn a new leaf / life!
With Getting down to zero I mean knowing what I can do without herbs or chemicals to reduce the symptom as soon as it comes up. OTOH I've got to know how to get a lot of my pains down to zero in 5 mins - with arnica cream and a hot water bottle, back exercises and yoga, if need be a cold shower, I can get all my joint pains most of my clavicle and back pains down that quickly. OTO they will come up again, because they are chronic, not cured. I have about 15 things which wake me up at night. I'm working on that and have more success than with meds like amitriptyline or CBD oil.
With "behaviour" I mean finding, becoming sensitive to & adjusting to the invisibly moving sweet spots of all my activities, plus resting actively, using breath-holding, yoga, legs&arms-up, cold showering, then pinpointing & treating the symptoms which come up. What remains I go to my acupressurist for.
For the Ache/exhaustibility/feverish-flu-feeling and getting reset regularly: cold showers, breath-holding, putting legs & arms up & "yoga" exercises are not enough. I need the whole body cryotherapy, ear-acupressure.
Talking to docs & experts? you jokingly suggested: I talked to a distinguished professor in the rheum clinic I was in, where they offer whole body cryotherapy to everybody with rheum and fibro there, about why it was last in my list of things to try out and he said: Because it's so individual. It will always be on the list of what patients find helps them, but never get on the list of scientifically proven, because these sort of things aren't suitable for being measured ... And true: I started with -130°C, that hurt. Then went to -110, that was great for a few days. -120 was good for 1 month, then I needed -130 whilst it was hot. Now it's cold outside I've gone up to -150°C, sometimes it doesn't help that much, today it was brilliant. How can I talk to scientists about that? My GP agrees with me tho and my docs are pleased I've found something.
But let me half-jokingly ask you back: Why should I talk to docs about it? Do you "believe in docs" despite having fibro?!?
I sometimes question whether it's worth talking about what helps me here on forums at all, because up to now no-one here has even talked about trying cold showering, which takes 1 minute or doing the breath-holding exercise, which takes 3 mins per round, no money, no docs necessary. On one other forum I'm on, several people use cold showering, others are thinking about trying both. But what does it take... ? If it isn't a pill, prescribed by a doc... ;-)