Okay so ....

[cricket186]

Every once a month I go through this phase, where I get really health conscious. I make it a point to brush my teeth every day, put on lotion, shave my legs, paint my toes (I'm pretty sure most girls don't have to remind themselves to do these things). I go to the gym like every week and take vitamins and all that shit

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[cricket186]

So what I gathered from that article is that pain and fatigue are due to the viruses that patients have accumulated in their bodies. I am assuming then that you believe fibromyalgia causes a lack of viral recognition in the human system which would make sense.

Why then is fibromyalgia listed as an autoimmune disease? The definition of an autoimmune disease is when your body produces antibodies to fight it's own substances. I'm not even sure how fibromyalgia can be classified as an autoimmune disease when according to this articile it isn't providing any antibodies at all. (antibodies needed to fight of the viruses which are triggered by an amino acid)

My research has found a breadth of probable causes, ranging from high progesterone levels, which eat away at the myelin sheaths on your axon filaments of your nerve cells, (triggering pain), to being accompanied by lupus (a severe autoimmune disease). My point here is not to prove you wrong, but to simply illustrate they have no idea what causes fibro. The symptoms are extremely broad and general. Some places fibro isn't even listed as a disease it is a syndrome. The only real treatment is exercise and anti-depressants.

There is a good index here for fibro links.

http://members.aol.com/fibroworld/99abstracts.htm#Emerging

As a biological researcher who relies on data as proof, can you understand why I'm skeptical? I seriously think that fibro patients have been lumped together in our medical system to treat, rather then cure. By giving them a name for their different symptoms doctors have found an easy way out of dealing with them.

The article you found is proof. Some fibro patients have viruses while others don't. Some suffer from depression while others don't. Some have lupus while others don't. These are not casual differences, if it were all the same disease the symptoms would be similar.