{"id":8972,"date":"2016-07-19T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T07:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2016-07-19T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T07:06:04","slug":"is-fm-a-danger-to-mecfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/is-fm-a-danger-to-mecfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Is FM a danger to ME\/CFS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Health rising<\/strong> blog post by Cort Johnson, 5 June: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthrising.org\/forums\/threads\/is-fibromyalgia-a-danger-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs.4464\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is Fibromyalgia a danger to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS)?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extract:<br \/>\nSharing similar symptoms with a much larger disease could be problematic if the two diseases are not precisely differentiated. Not only is fibromyalgia much more prevalent than ME\/CFS (10 million people vs 1 million in the U.S), but the FDA approved drugs for it and the commercials featuring those drugs means that virtually everyone has heard of fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n<p>Because doctors are much more familiar with FM than ME\/CFS they are more likely, if given the chance, to diagnose a patient with FM. The ACR 2010 criteria gives doctors that chance.<\/p>\n<p>The broad diagnostic criteria for FM could, conceivably, create a long term challenge to the viability of ME\/CFS. If ME\/CFS patients keep getting thrown into the FM basket the support for the ME\/CFS community could weaken over time.)<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Natelson believes that the less restrictive diagnostic criteria for FM (which has no exclusionary conditions) may be partly responsible for the greatly increased prevalence of FM relative to ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthrising.org\/forums\/threads\/is-fibromyalgia-a-danger-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs.4464\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health rising blog post by Cort Johnson, 5 June: Is Fibromyalgia a danger to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS)? Extract: Sharing similar symptoms with a much larger disease could be problematic if the two diseases are not precisely differentiated. Not only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/is-fm-a-danger-to-mecfs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[618,107,2847,251,252,1912],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cort-johnson","tag-diagnostic-criteria","tag-dr-benjamin-natelson","tag-fibromyalgia","tag-fm","tag-health-rising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2kI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9049,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}