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Fibromyalgia News: "Fibromyalgia is not life-threatening and does not reduce life expectancy"? Rubbish!

When talking in term of fibromyalgia, because it is a genetic disease, there is no cure so any fibromyalgia sufferer will die with the disease!

So, any fibromyalgia patient has a probability of 100% of dying carrying the disease!

Already we see the difficulties of making a statement such as "fibromyalgia is not life-threatening and does not reduce life expectancy".

Good sense says that any disease tends to reduce life expectancy.

It is already a stupid statement to say that fibromyalgia is not crippling. Many fibromyalgia sufferers do become crippled! It does not say that all of them become crippled but some do!

In fact, not all genetic carriers have signs of fibromyalgia. They need an environmental factor: the lack of magnesium. And they need a trigger!

No study has been done about fibromyalgia life expectancy. So at best we can say that we don't know. It does not mean that it does not reduce life expectancy!

At worst, we can say that all epidemiological studies on magnesium deficiency have shown that all causes of mortality are increased! It is therefore logical and good sense to say that fibromyalgia sufferers (those with signs and symptoms) have a higher probability of a shortened life expectancy. What about those that are crippled by fibromyalgia? It seems obvious that their life expectancy is even shorter!

Stupid statements to the contrary, even made under the name of health organisations such as the NHS, do not serve the fibromyalgia sufferers who are trying to claim their rights. If the trigger is a car accident, the claims values that are the rights of the claimants are undermined by such statements.

Science and justice have nothing to do with a downplaying statement. Lying to decrease anxiety may seem to leave more hope but it certainly does not carry any "humanity".

Fibromyalgia patients have the right to know and that is their human right!

IBS and Fibromyalgia

This study is interesting to point out again to the association of musculo-skeletal symptoms. However, it is more important to remember the very frequent association of IBS and fibromyalgia.

In fact, the explanation of many IBS is found in the mechanism of fibromyalgia as a genetic muscle disease. It goes beyond a simple coincidence.

In cases of fibromyalgia, IBS in a family member can be considered as the equivalent of FMS. The chances of that member developing full blown FMS is high.

Musculoskeletal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, Bourikas LA, Papadakis KA. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2009 Apr 30.

Summary: Extraintestinal manifestations develop in approximately 25% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Musculoskeletal symptoms are the most common extraintestinal manifestations of IBD, often associated with colonic involvement, and present as either articular (arthritis) or periarticular inflammation including enthesitis, myositis, or soft tissue rheumatism (fibromyalgia). Musculoskeletal manifestations can precede or be synchronous with the development of bowel disease or develop following the diagnosis of IBD. Their clinical course often correlates with IBD activity but it can also be independent of the activity of bowel disease. Controlling intestinal inflammation remains the cornerstone therapeutic approach for the musculoskeletal manifestations of IBD.