I know I'm young, you don't have to remind me. Ignorance from a common layman is to be expected, but from professionals? There is not one medical place I've been that hasn't asked me what happened to me and then sat there in disbelief when I told them that I hadn't been in some crazy accident. Then there is usually a follow up statement having to do with me needing to relax and that this amount of stress/anxiety is not normal for someone my age. They then proceed to ask me (again) what happened, but instead of asking about a physical accident, they inquire about a specific psychological event. They can't seem to understand that it was prolonged and that I hadn't been in any accidents.
Leave me alone. Yes, I was under intense pressure, stress and anxiety from about age 4 until about 22, by which point I started getting a little better. Yes, I'm under a little bit of stress now. Deal with it. These are supposed to be medical/pain specialists. Was their degree totally useless? Did they not learn in school or through experience that, yes, it is possible for someone who is 24 to be under a tremendous amount of accumulated stress. I can understand if they said it was rare, but I can't understand when their jaws drop to the floor and their eyes roll out of their sockets. It's not *that* much of a big deal.
But then again, I never thought it was a big deal at all. So what do I know?
I do know that it is unusual when all these medical experts are in shock. Some of them have been doing this for over 20 years. It can't be *that* rare. Or can it?
Well, I guess it's unanimous. My doctor, phyiscial therapists, rheumotologist, x-ray people, they're all saying that I seem very nervous/anxious and that's probably where the fibromyalgia is from. Well, all unanimous, except for the internet which states that fibromyalgia is not psychosomatic. Which is the lesser of two evils? The Doctors or The Interwebs? hhmm....
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