Bob,

I am very surprised to read a comment like the one you've made re: fibromyalgia, esp.written in this forum. In 2009? Wow!

Fibromyalgia research had started at least as far back as the 1980's, Bob. This was long before the Lyrica ads. I have known some of these very highly credible U.S. researchers very well. Fibromyalgia was taken very seriously then (1980s), by those "in the know." It is taken even more seriously now, and on an international level... in 2009!

Fibromyalgia is neither "new," nor a "fad" disease.

It's extremely unfortunate that people not educated in the real facts about fibromyalgia feel free to perpetuate myths, as though they are an authority on the topic. These types of comments are very demeaning to those suffering greatly with this often seriously debilitating and very painful condition.

When individuals do not truly know the facts on a specific condition, why comment in an uniformed, negative fashion?

People only harm their very own credibility with these types of comments.

Do doctors sometimes make misdiagnoses? Absolutely!
However, a misdiagnosis does not negate the existence and credibility of the condition referred to as Fibromyalgia.