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Originally Posted by echoes long ago
TOS, RSD, and fibro all include pain in their symptoms. They are all chronic illnesses. If you have them then you are in pain and are ill longterm. you dont have to die from something for it to be an illness.
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The term
chronic means long term and to not end. People have died from pneumonia that is not a disease but is an illness, and people die everyday from pneumonia. Your right echoes it is all very painful and that is why pharmaceutical companies make billions of pain pills.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chronic
A disease is a certain part of your body has a condition:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disease
If you have a disease you have an illness, illness is a noun describing disease.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/illness