Comments on: Vitamin D Deficiency and Fibromyalgia?

By: hello

hello — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:07:59 +0000

This is the answer I gave on another posting about thyroid hormones. Fibromyalgia has a very high incidence of co-morbidities (accompanying diseases)
It is very good practice when one is diagnosed with fibromyalgia to test for thyroid hormones. If thyroid hormones are abnormal, they must be corrected and this will help you improve. If you improve it does not mean that you don’t have fibromyalgia!
If you do not improve your thyroid hormones will be checked again to make sure your medication dosage is ok.
Thyroid is not the cause of fibromyalgia and if you have thyroid problems it does not mean you don’t have fibromyalgia.
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Check this site: http://www.fibromyalgia-information-relief.com

The same apply to Vitamin D. However, the fact that fibromyalgia sufferers tend to stay inside decrease their ability to synthetise Vitamin D through sun exposure and their vitamin D levels may be normal to start with but can become lower a few years later. So it is a good practice either to take vitamin D supplements or expose to the sun or to review serum levels at regular intervals (every second year).

The site I gave you above does have info on nutrition that may help.
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By: justmeinthisworld

justmeinthisworld — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:24:59 +0000

vitamin D deficeincey can cause pain and fatigue–but not REAL FMS

if you are treated with vitain D and are cured–than you did not have FMS–you had a vitamin deficiency

many docs are handing out teh fms diagnosis like candy–for any pain–even pain due to other known or unknown

lack of exercise doesn’t cause real FMS either-yes it cause pain and fatigue–but not real FMS…

when I got sick– i was active–running around oustide with the neighborhood kidsa ll day–I work with 2 year olds-regularly engaging in physical activity–yet I still have symptoms

real FMS is a disorder of teh central nervous system

vitamiin d deficiency at its worst can cuase Rickets–milder forms can cause sleep and muscle problems–but it is not REAL FMS
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this is the answer I gave to another question: fibromylagia does not TRULY have a high comorbidity rate….it has a high rate of FALSE diagnosis with other conditions—many docs label any pain form normal lifestyle or another condition (such as vitamin deficiency) as fms–when it is not

FMS is its own specific neuro condition

if you are ‘cured’ after correctiing a vitamin deficiency or hormone problem–you never had FMS to begin with–it will not go away by curing another condition-

if you correct a vitamin d deficeincy–you will only cure taht condition–if you also have fibro–you will still have it

You CAN have both–but its much rarer than diagnosed.

The trick is-if you are completely cured by vitamin/hormone treatment—you did not have fms

if even after treating teh vitamin/hormone you still have symptoms-you may have fms

vitamin D defiecienct may be a complicatioin of fms–but it has nothing to do with the fibro itself—most people with fms don’t seclude themselves enoguh to be affected by lack of sun

By: Douglas B

Douglas B — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:48:59 +0000

If such a link is there, why don't more people suffer from fibromyalga? I think these people are just trying to push their theory to make a name for themselves. At one time we were pretty sure that I was suffering from fibromalgia, I had all the classic symptoms. I ended up going to work, I had a lot of exercise and those classic symptoms disappeared It seems that without exercise the waste products in the body start to build up and after they build up on different parts of the body a soreness, an achenes sets in. The more it hurts, the less you do, the less you do the worse it gets. The worse it gets the more body parts that are going to be affected. Did you notice this is one of those recent medical problems? So what's the problem? The biggest problem the medical field is facing is that it has become so specialized that it no longer looks at you as a whole person where one thing affects the other, they have seperated each part of the body from the other and want to make their diagnosis on that little part regardless of what is happening to the rest of the body. Then if something is still wrong you can be sent off to another specialist.
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