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Fibromyalgia -- Need help on how to handle severe pain
Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Oct 29, 2023 | Replies (156)Comment receiving replies
Hi @stephanieml, Mayo Clinic offers integrative medicine and health. You can read more here:
- Integrative Medicine and Health https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/integrative-medicine-health/sections/overview/ovc-20464567
Integrative medicine and functional medicine are similar and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. They approach healing in slightly different ways. Integrative medicine seeks to understand you as a whole person. It uses many different types of therapy to heal your mind, body and spirit. Functional medicine seeks to identify and treat the underlying cause of your condition. It centers on the idea that one condition may have many causes or one cause can have many conditions.
Integrative medicine uses a combination of therapies and lifestyle changes to treat and heal the whole person. It focuses on your complete mind, body and soul and uses an evidence-based approach to improve your health and wellness. Integrative approaches are used to help people with medical conditions — including cancer, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, diabetes and many others — feel better by reducing fatigue, nausea, pain and anxiety.
I think the thing people like the most about integrative medicine is that you work closely with the care team to understand and address your needs.
Stephanie, when you were diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2017, did you attend Mayo Clinic Fibromyalgia Clinic?
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Hello and thanks for your great reply. Yes, I went through and completed the Fibromyalgia Clinic. It was helpful to a point, but since then and dealing with regular doctors at Mayo and elsewhere, I've felt pretty misunderstood. It took years to get most things dealt with because with fibro pain is only one symptom, and when you've got 10 different things going on at the same time, the doctor only wants to hear about the top 3, and it takes a while of suffering while trying to wait for all of the different appointments and in the meantime, being told to take as much Tylenol as I can to address the extra pain. I do appreciate you sharing the link for the integrative medicine and health, I wish I would've know of or been referred to them by now, thank you.