Posted by Elizabeth on June 29, 2001, at 19:39:11
In reply to Re: Stigma: it will just never go away, will it? » grapebubblegum, posted by Lorraine on June 28, 2001, at 10:45:23
> I was talking with a woman with FMS and giving her some research that I had done on FMS (which I do not have) and I said something about the conditions being similar and how FMS is usually diagnosed depression first. She bristled a bit and said FMS is an immune disease.
Like that's a proven fact. FMS is a syndrome of unknown etiology, and it's controversial as to whether it even constitutes a distinct condition rather than a manifestation of one or more other conditions. That's just like when people with depression say, as though it were an established fact (or even as though it means anything in particular at all) that depression is "a chemical imbalance." Nobody knows what causes depression -- or FMS, epilepsy, and many other conditions.
> Well, in my case, my QEEG showed subthreshold seizure activity--which is why an anti-convulsant was added to my regiem. I wonder if that is the case with others that take anti-convulsants.No, not usually.
> My QEEG also suggested that I had brain lesions, causing my neurofeedback clinic to question me extensively about the possibility of brain trauma--from car accidents etc.
That's something that would show up on a structural image (like an MRI).
-elizabeth
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