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Members shared their experiences with fibromyalgia and overlapping autoimmune conditions, with many describing diagnoses that came close... Read more

Members shared their experiences with fibromyalgia and overlapping autoimmune conditions, with many describing diagnoses that came close together or years apart, making it difficult to know which condition appeared first. Several members mentioned specific autoimmune conditions that preceded or accompanied their fibromyalgia diagnosis, including Sjögren's syndrome, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, and Epstein-Barr virus, with one member noting a book suggesting EBV as a potential underlying cause of both fibromyalgia and autoimmune disease. A recurring theme was the challenge of pinpointing which condition truly came first when symptoms overlap so significantly, and the frustration of waiting for formal diagnoses even when pain and other symptoms were clearly present.