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Fibromyalgia is a garbage bin diagnosis

• beervirus 6y ago
  Fixed link to avoid the horrible new reddit interface: https://old.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/faviam/fibromyalgia_is_a_garbage_bin_diagnosis_and_i/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/faviam/fibrom...
  • dorkwood 6y ago
    What bothers you about the new one? The reading experience feels very similar to me, apart from one being on the left and one being centered.
    • beervirus 6y ago
      It sucks on mobile, and it's a resource hog.
• mcv 6y ago
  Sounds like the difference between average and excellent physicians. Plenty are happy to use such a "garbage bin diagnosis" for stuff they can't find a more specific diagnosis for, others just keep searching. It also reminds me of my own RSI. Had it 20 years ago, got treated for it by an (in my estimation) excellent physical therapist. Recently started at a different physical therapist for a different issue and mentioned, this, and he insists that RSI doesn't exist; it's always something more specific.
• buran77 6y ago
  Similar to rheumatism [0], a generic "diagnosis" that many lazy doctors would slap on you a few decades ago for any sign of joint pain. If you were over 40-50 any joint pain would instantly be labeled rheumatism, the "old person illness", you couldn't be old and not have it. And the treatment was any one of those needed for the 200 different conditions under that label. Possibly chosen at random based on costs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatism