Alternative fibromyalgia treatment. Integrative fibromyalgia doctor.
Too many people have been broken by the “fibromyalgia” diagnosis and years of miserable treatment. “Fibromyalgia,” is just a label of a group of symptoms. It’s mostly muscle pain. Bouts of “fibro fog,” or brain fog (foggy thinking), and chronic fatigue (fm/cfs/cfids) are also common. The hallmark of fibromyalgia is extreme sensitivity to touch pressure.
What is fibromyalgia treatment?
Important: The term “fibromyalgia” does not define a process of disease. The fibromyalgia label is used for the doctor’s convenience; the label itself doesn’t really help you. There is no diagnosis from a biopsy of your muscles. This is an important point. This diagnostic label does not identify any mechanism causing the symptoms. Fibromyalgia doctors, and fibromyalgia specialists say there is “no known cause” of fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia does not describe a process of disease, nor is it the underlying cause of anything, but it is a result of many things.
A fibromyalgia specialist is just a pain management doctor. There is no insight into the underlying reasons for your condition. When you seek a doctor’s second opinion, and you say “I have fibromyalgia,” it only suggests that another doctor decided to label your condition that way. It does not describe the root cause of anything.
Treatment focuses on suppressing the symptoms. Warning: drug treatments are for acute care; they only give short-term relief from pain. Those treatments don’t help your brain-fog/ mental-fog/ fibro-fog, or cfs/chronic fatigue. They never improve the core reasons you have your symptoms. Unfortunately, pain management is usually presented as your only treatment choice, but doesn’t change the underlying process causing the pain.
Fibromyalgia is a result of many things. Grouping your symptoms under one label and treating it like a disease is a disservice to you.
Functional Medicine for Fibromyalgia: alternative fibromyalgia treatment
Integrative doctors like us, using a functional medicine system, strive to uncover the underlying cofactors of your condition.
If you stop taking pain killers, wouldn’t the pain come back? Yes, it would. That’s because the underlying causes of your condition have not changed, only your perception of your pain has changed. Long term use of chemical treatments can eventually lead to other symptoms. Those can also be “controlled” with additional drugs—an undesirable cascade of events.
Natural Remedies for Fibromyalgia: integrative fibromyalgia doctors
We can start using natural remedies for fibromyalgia in tandem with your medications (at least for now). You wouldn’t stop any prescription treatments until you don’t need them any more. We look at this pain syndrome with different lenses and we investigate the underlying conditions that may be present.
Contributing Factors to Fibromyalgia
We consider autoimmunity, slight impairments of the spine and organs, hidden mild head trauma (concussion syndrome) in your past, true vitamin B1 deficiency (worsened by taking synthetic vitamins and needing a naturally sourced B complex supplement).
We have an individualized treatment plan. You will save years of pain, frustration and suffering when you allow yourself to seek our alternative fibromyalgia treatment, now.