This may be of interest to people here who have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia ...

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As far as I can tell, a Fibromyalgia dx was/is often a gateway diagnosis to a FND dx which has always felt inappropriate to me since the tests for FND (eg the Hoover's sign etc) are not totally applicable to p/w Fibromyalgia and since this condition mostly impacts women. Plus I am sick to death of women - and men - being labelled as having mental health disorders via a FND dx. Anyhoo, this article bit.ly/3CrmbYy (you may need to copy and paste the link into a browser, if it doesn't go live here) looks at grey matter in the brain. It is a little complicated but the good people at Patient Worthy (who highlighted this research on fb) do a good plain English summary at the end, bless them.

[tinygianthuman]

alongside you on the rage that the use of the ‘disorder’ term. I’m not exactly sure why it bothers me so… but it really does.

[Lady4 in reply to tinygianthuman]

Isn't that part of what FND stands for. To me, disorder is softer than disability.

[tinygianthuman in reply to Lady4]

aaah, I suppose it’s just different perspectives. I personally feel more comfortable with the word disabled as I do feel less able as a result of this condition… however I don’t like to think of myself as being less-ordered… maybe this is why?

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