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September 02, 2010  
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  • The Reality of Fibromyalgia


    January 16, 2008

    You may have recognized a recent commercial by drug company Pfizer advertising Lyrica, a drug to treat a condition known as Fibromyalgia. However, there is some controversy as to whether the disease actually exists. The broad symptoms of the condition, mainly categorized by chronic pain, and that there is no clinical test for the disease have raised strong concerns in the medical community as to whether Lyrica or any other drug would be of benefit in treating the disease. Dr. Frederick Wolfe, an expert on Rheumatic diseases who originally had helped to define the diagnostic guidelines for Fibromyalgia, now believes the condition is more of a bodily response to stress than anything else.

    But patients still are fighting the symptoms of Fibromyalgia, whether it is a disease or not. The condition has been known to confine its victims to their homes or beds due to inducing pain throughout the body, most notably the back. It primarily affects middle-aged women, and as many as 10 million people in the country could have Fibromyalgia.

    Last updated: 16-Jan-08

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