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Anyone else ME/CFS long/post Covid diagnose as Somatic Illnesses?
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@fourleaf It’s an age old problem and deep frustration that doctors who don’t know or just don’t care will label patients with ME/CFS (and more recently LC) as psychosomatic cases.
Fortunately that is changing.
40 years with ME/CFS here and I was brushed off by plenty of doctors over the years. But thankfully I’ve seen a change and some of my doctors are now even putting Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in my chart. The wheels of progress turn slowly.
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Yes, I wonder if the prevalence of LC (6% of the U.S. population according to some sources) has finally awoken many physicians to the longer-standing reality of M.E./CFS too.
The "psychosomatic" attitude to these diseases is so old-school, and somewhat redolent of the old "hysteria" diagnosis, especially given the preponderance of female patients with this disease.