Many years with Fibromyalgia (Fibrositis). and GP"s could not recognize it when I told them I hve had Fibrositis for most of my adult life.
From what I understood Fibrositis was the name this illness held before it was named Fibromyalgia.
Can anyone elaborate on that pse?
fibrositis is one of the previous names for fibro.
Fibrositis must mean inflammation ( itis) of fibrous tissue. I suppose they changed to fibromyalgia as there’s usually no identifiable inflammation. Bit it’s all the same thing.
Yes, dear, *I was told as a very young person that I had fibrositis, not knowing then exactly what it was, but soon discovered that the severe pain and loss of movement was what it entailed. Had it almost all my life, and I am now 85 years old, plus M.E. plus IBS and now with age, though had deafness from late 50's, eye troubles and speech troubles, and been disabled since about 1986. Bodily pain is very very severe now, can hardly function.
So fibrositis is a misnomer for fibromyalgia, they are both different condition though, fibrositis involves swelling of the connective tissues and FM doesn't. It was an old term used before they did more research into it. I only know this because my previous GP put fibrositis on my medical record in 2014, I saw it and googled it and was like eh? I then disputed it with the current medical centre that I am with, they tried to tell me it was correct, I then explained the above to them and the APM agreed to change the coding for it. I don't know if they've done it yet because the APM went on maternity leave and left someone else to sort it out and unfortunately, she's not gotten back to me.
I copied this from a website
"While fibrositis, or fibrositis syndrome, is sometimes still used as a synonym for fibromyalgia, it is really a misnomer, since fibromyalgia is not an inflammatory disorder of connective tissue (-itis signifies inflammation). Similarly, fibromyositis is chronic inflammation of a muscle. While fibrositis and fibromyositis have some symptoms in common with fibromyalgia, FMS does not involve inflammation."
I started with a bad pain in my neck and shoulders after playing hockey at school in pouring rain. I still had severe pain after a week so I went to my GP. The GP then called it fibrositis. I was amazed when I read an article that said fibrositis is now what's known as fibromyalgia!!! I'm not convinced that doctors are correct about this though, as fibromyalgia is much more severe pain and more complex.
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