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address your rib pain.
Since MDs in your area are turned off by patients coming in and using the term fibromyalgia, I would stop using it. I have done this also, but a lot of MDs want to make their own diagnosis, and fibromyalgia is a diagnosis. I think they want patients to come in using terms like pain, and using regular English adjectives to describe the pain, and pointing to where the pain is.
Since they have agreed to treat your rib pain as costochondritis, I am very happy for you. I've been wishing they would consider that very likely diagnosis. But I don't think this is the time to water down your rib pain problem with words like, "Well, really the pain is everywhere ..." What you need is to get them to try to relieve your worst pain. If you can get some pain relief, you might be able to achieve some muscle relaxation and get some sleep. Then your other pains have a chance of improving, IMO.
I do hope you get improvement in your pain. You have had a terrible time of it. |
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