I'm sorry, Linda. That must have been an awful experience, to have your doctor call you a liar to your face. Mine have never gone that far, but they do love their insinuations.

My rheumatologist was explaining tender point injections to me the last time I saw him. But then he went on to say that only about half of his patients who tried them reported any benefit, and even in that cases he suspected the improvement was purely psycho-somatic. He went through several other symptoms and treatments the same way, almost as if I were another doctor and he was telling jokes about people who "thought" they had fibro. Maybe he forgot that I was a patient.