CONTRIBUTED CONTENT — All too often, fibromyalgia is used as a “catch-all” diagnosis for chronic symptoms that your doctor doesn’t have the time or expertise to figure out.
If you’ve been told that you have fibromyalgia, have your doctor check for the following conditions that mimic fibromyalgia:
- Hashimoto’s low thyroid.
- Lupus.
- Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Neurological autoimmunity.
- Interstitial cystitis.
- Ankylosing spondylitis.
- Polymyalgia rheumatica.
- Chronic viral infections.
- Bacterial infections.
- Musculoskeletal trauma.
- Neurological trauma.
- Intestinal permeability or “leaky gut.”
- Dysbiosis (too much bad gut bacteria).
- Chronic stress causing sympathetic dominance.
- Lyme disease.
- Food and chemical intolerances.
Women are twice as likely to have fibromyalgia than men. Symptoms of fibromyalgia include fatigue, lack of energy, trouble sleeping, depression, anxiety, memory problems, headaches and muscle and joint pain.
Many autoimmune and inflammatory conditions are diagnosed as fibromyalgia because autoimmunity is little understood in the medical field until it’s in acute end stages, requiring pharmaceutical use or surgery. However, autoimmunity can cause tissue damage and ever-worsening symptoms over many years prior. As a result, patients never receive the proper help and treatment to alleviate their symptoms.
Dig deeper. Be informed. Be empowered and don’t settle for a “catch-all” diagnosis. Once the true underlying mechanism is found, a better strategy for optimal health can be made.
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Written by JOSH REDD, chiropractic physician at RedRiver Health and Wellness Center.
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About Josh Redd
Josh Redd, MS, DABFM, DAAIM, is a chiropractic physician and author of the Amazon bestselling book “The Truth About Low Thyroid.” Redd owns seven functional medicine clinics in the western United States and sees patients from across the country and around the world who are suffering from challenging autoimmune, endocrine and neurological disorders. He studied immunology, virology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins where he is a MaPHB candidate. He also teaches thousands of health care practitioners about functional medicine and immunology, thyroid health, neurology, lab testing and more.
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