Exactly.... That's how I feel about it too. It is rubbish. But when you are starting with rubbish doctors...............

There is no way what I live with is FM. It doesn't slowly shut down your body, leave you with almost no voluntary movements, confine you in a body that slowly locks you into dystonic contortions and a long drawn out pain filled nightmare of burning, stabbing, whipping and other dreams of the masochist... I'm not saying FM is pleasant.. but RSD really takes the biscuit for managing to be as unpleasant as possible in almost any category.. when even a hug or kiss burns to the bone....you can't think straight, you don't sleep, you suddenly become the idiot in shorts, strappy top, sunglasses and earmuffs etc....

Ok.. sorry, stupid rant there!! it is just so frustrating to be up against a generation of ignorant doctors, who because they don't understand what is going on in our bodies decide the best way to treat is is through either blaming the patient or to some extent trivialising what we live with and ignoring the damage this disease causes on so many levels, neuropathic, vascularly, osteotically (wrong word, can't remeber the right one) etc..

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