In a recent edition of Fibromyalgia Aware magazine there was an article titled "10 Things You Should Never Say to a Fibromyalgia Patient," by Linda Meilink. Here are the ten things she listed: 1. I think I have that too. 2. My sister-in-law has fibromyalgia and she's still working. She says it helps to take her mind off the pain. 3. But you look okay. 4. Is that a real disease. 5. Maybe you just need some B vitamins. 6. Do you have any percocet? I could sure use one right now. 7. Well, we all start to ache when we get older. 8. Can you hold this box for me? I can't find … [Read more...]
The Commerce of Fibromyalgia
Have you ever read The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle? If you have not, you should. It is a wickedly comic novel written by the most entertaining of contemporary American writers. This whole business with Dr. Whitcomb, and his Lake Tahoe clinic, and his false promises of a cure for Fibromyalgia is reminiscent of it. The real-life Dr. John Harvey Kellogg is fictionalized into one of the main characters in Boyle's The Road to Wellville. You might know Dr. Kellogg from the Corn Flakes you crunch occasionally for breakfast. Yes, that most famous of breakfast cereals was actually invented … [Read more...]