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Hi all, I belong to a local fibro support group and we have a group on yahoo. The leader posted this article. Unfortunately I don't know where it came from, but let me know if it makes you as angry as it made me! Here goes... Complaints of chronic pain appear to have created a disease WASHINGTON--While Pfizer is celebrating the approval of Lyrica as treatment for fibromyalgia, the medical profession has expressed its misgivings about the unhealthy relationship which has arisen between the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry. Many doctors are now complaining that the FDA has bowed to the interests of the latter by relaxing its criteria for defining what is a disease, allowing almost any affliction the status of "treatable disease" and thereby opening up new business avenues for the industry. "Chronic pain from chronic complainers" is how one doctor put it when asked to qualify the status of fibromyalgia in the eyes of many healthcare professionals. There are no biological tests to diagnose the disease, no environmental factors to identify, and nothing more than patient input to go by. But Pfizer, followed by Eli Lilly and Forest Laboratories, has successfully lobbied the FDA into recognizing fibromyalgia as a disease, although there is no consensus in the medical profession regarding diagnosis. Instead, the pharmaceutical industry has been able to push ahead and find one more product to market to a sector of the population that is convinced it has this disease, while many doctors simply write off the chronic pain as nothing more than the consequences of a stressful lifestyle. I'll tell ya what, this article brings out the  in me lol
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Your'e right. Oh yes I love missing out on life. I love missing out on get-togethers with family and friends. I love missing out on going fishing. I love missing out on riding my motorcycle, especially when its a glorious day. I love missing out on just being out and about. I love missing out on working and inter-acting with other people.
