Of course it's not in your mind!!!

I once watched an episode of Strong Medicine on Lifetime. It's an ER kind of series. They brought a woman in screaming. One of the doctors who came to her asked her what was wrong. She replied "I've been diagnosed with Fibrmyalgia". I will never forget what happened next.

The doctor went over to another doctor and whispered "You know there's no such thing as fibromyalgia, it's all in her head", and the other doctor looked at her and said "does it really matter, the woman is in pain". And they prescribed morphine.

Well, by the end of the episode, the doctor (who didn't believe in the diagnosis of Fibro). well....she did such an about face on that subject.


I think it's horrible when a doctor says "it's all in your mind". Like when I went through all those tests to see why I was having bladder spasms that lasted for years. They didn't have to tell me they thought it was all in my mind. I could tell by their faces. If all the x-rays,sonograms and cystoscopes come up negative, and I still had those damm spasms and I always thought I had a bladder infection (I didn't) and I even asked the doctor, could I have interstitial cystitis and he actually laughed in my face....well, what on earth is a person to do? I mean, I went through hell.

It's not in our heads. Our bodies are reacting to something. They treat us like we are brainless idiots when we say "we are in pain" in a particular part of our body. We actually have to be our own advocates for pain treatments and our own advocates on B-12. I have had many conversations with physicians who tell me I'm crazy to think B-12 will help me.

They don't even want to learn.

Thankfully, our Dr. Fred is always receptive. Actually we don't have to tell him anything because he already is up to date on the latest ANYTHING that is going on in the medical world. But he's an internist. It's the neuro's who really have to do their homework (especially on B-12), don't you think??

We baby boomers (and all others with PN), well, we certainly have our work cut out for us.

Melody