Interesting read, may help a few people out.

[Ant92]

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[TheAuthor]

Hi Ant92

I sincerely hope that you are feeling as well as you possibly can be today? Thank you so much for such an informative and useful post. It is essential that all other medical conditions are ruled out prior to a Fibro diagnosis.

Mdaisy created a wonderful post entitled: About Fibromyalgia & Thyroid Issues which is one of our pinned posts. I have pasted a link below:

healthunlocked.com/fibromya...

I want to sincerely wish you all the best of luck and please take care of yourself my friend.

All my hopes and dreams for you

Ken

[stiltzski]

Thanks for posting a very clear and useful article. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia over 10 years ago but am now on Nature Throid + vits B12 & D3 & no longer take painkillers and have cut right back on anti-depressants too. It is interesting that apparently the increase in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia corresponds to the introduction of the TSH testing.

[Ramjets]

I have heard of this before and it is definitely worth people knowing so they can bring this up with their doctors. Every other possibility should be investigated before fibro is diagnosed but I would think there is a lot of mis-diagnosis happening. Thanks for highlighting this. x

[chrisbrookes9]

Recent studies that have come out last few months that atleast 3% of Fibro patients are misdiagnosed. Thryoid and Vitamin B12 closely mimick the same issues as Fibro. Some patient listed as Fibro dont have it and have issues with throyid and Vitamins. Alot ig issues is Doctors dont run the full spectrum of Throyid tests just a standard HTC test which is not 100% accurate. Look up the Thryoid council for more info. The Vitamin B12 thats run is neither an accutate test. Why they run a specilaist blood test for it now. Blood sample has to be seperated within 3 hours of the test and then run. Doctors dont like running the test as it has to be sent of to London for a specialist. I always advise to do your home work abd research things. Some times best policy edecuate your own GP. That fails speak to practice Manager then that fails complain to health board. Were in the 21st century and still leave in the dark ages for this subject. Places in EU can walk into chemists and gwt vitamin jabs as standard and they droped there thryoid test to under 2.5, we still use over 4 as a bench mark

[Silmarillion]

Apparently a lot of people with fibro have high thyroid antibodies.

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Thank you for the article.

I have a goitre and every symptom of hypothyroidism but because my blood tests come back " normal", but definitely not optimal, my GP has refused to do anything. NHS Endocrinologist refused to do anything, despite me telling them of all the symptoms.

Got passed from dr to dr and eventually paid to see a Rheumatologist because of the 8 month NHS wait. Diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and seem to be feeling worse by the day.

Only thing I can think of is paying for a private Endocrinologist but no idea how I'd afford ongoing treatment.

I'll print out the article, though, just in case I see the GP again and he'll read it. ( tempted to say, watch out, flying pigs!)