I had an identical experience to you, however Fibro is diagnosis of exclusion. When the doctor doesn't know what else to do, and you match the symptoms... Boom,

I had an identical experience to you, however Fibro is diagnosis of exclusion. When the doctor doesn't know what else to do, and you match the symptoms... Boom, Fibro. I think that hanlon's razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." In my case, after seeing dozens of specialists, the doctors simply had no clue what to do. Thus what was left was fibro (which few understand) or psychosomatic causes. I much rather frame a response of "I don't know" as just that, they don't know. It allows me to proceed further with a more knowledgable source. Early in my experience I took it as "Go Away" or "You're faking", which made me combative. Combative against a source that lacked the knowledge to help me further. It was a COMPLETE waste of time. If I took "We don't know" as just that, I would have much more quickly moved towards finding a proper specialist with the knowledge to do proper testing and followup care. It's really easy to think that Doctors are being malicious because, hey! They're doctors, they're not dumb, right? Except they are. Even the most educated of generalists lacks significantly more medical knowledge than they possess. Doctors know a lot less than they know, and almost always best to recognize those limitations in an individual as soon as possible so you can find the right person for your care.