Pain is NOT subjective

Sad, seeing it is Doctors that are providing an individual with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia! Docs tell a chronic pain patient that this is what their specific complaints of pain/fatigue/IBS/etc..... are known as within the Medical Community, then the patient tells others and then people turn around and laugh, roll their eyes and discredit them!
Nice.
No wonder these people feel like they are going crazy. Look how they are treated.

When I am a patient, I have the opposite problem. Apparently, I have a fairly high pain threshold. So, I don't report pain as being very severe and I don't request "enough" pain relief for people to take me seriously as a patient.

I frequently find myself saying things like, "It doesn't hurt all that much, but I do thinK there is something wrong here. Could you please take a closer look at this?" The doctor and/or nurses brushes me off because I don't seem to be suffering much ... and then we all have to deal with a more serious problem later because my little problem was not sufficiently treated and it grows to become a big problem.

Even when I was a child, my father (who was also my doctor) would say things like, "She's not a complainer. If she says something's wrong, there probably is." whenever he had to refer me to someone else for treatment.

I drives me crazy. I am often tempted to "over-dramatize" my report of pain just to get taken seriously.

Dont forget the drug companies. How many companies are offering their drugs to those with Fibromyalgia on TV. I do take exception to a lot of these medicine commercials on TV. They affect everyone who sees them also