> however Fibro is diagnosis of exclusion In part, yes, but there are actually well-defined criteria for fibromyalgia[0] > I think that hanlon's razor applies

> however Fibro is diagnosis of exclusion In part, yes, but there are actually well-defined criteria for fibromyalgia[0] > I think that hanlon's razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." sigh, I agree. In my (unfortunately vast) experience with NHS doctors, it seems the majority have never had any training or even read a paper since they became doctors, and that they are trained to diagnose the obvious and write everyone else as a nutjob. For example NHS endocrinologists mainly know about diabetes (even if somewhat outdated) and thyroid cancer - anything else, forget about it, you need to go private and see a specialist that doesn't have tunnel vision. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461783 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461783