Dear Sammi & Forsaken Angel. Yes, I agree that many medicines have different uses. I agree that doctors probably know what they are doing. However, there are limited treatments that doctor have at their disposal to use for fibro. One doctor told my doctor that she did not want fibro referrals because she did not have good treatment for them and she was in overload with fibro patients. I would not want to be a doctor and have to treat fibro. patients because of lack of established treatments.

The doctor who treats my husband for heart disease has more choices for treatment such as meds, diet, etc. She can keep his heart disease under control, unlike my illness. In fact, I have the same doctor as my husband (an excellent doctor) and she verbalizes frustration with having to design treatment regiments for me. I understand the medical community's frustration with our illness due to lack of treatment protocols.
Hopefully, in 50 years, fibro. patients will not have to experience the difficulties that we are experiencing today.

Many medications have several differant uses. For example some anti depressant drugs are widely used for pain relief in patients that do not have depression.

Amen to your comment.! This illess is not psychological in my belief .I do think it's a nerological disorder in whereas the brain is misfiring signals causing hypersensitivity to touch vision hearing and .pain .anything and everything involving nerves.but the pshcycological part ( depression withdrawal etc is secondary to the primary illness the fibro.

Because they don't know what else to do.

Forsaken Angel. Where can I read about the new test for fibromyalgia? I like to keep up with the latest data.