UK/European's with fibro
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Created by Dawn Stevens

UK/European's with fibro

This community if for anyone from Europe who has Fibro, most of the sites that I visit are based in the US and mainly offer treatments based on what you get there. What treatments have you been offered from doctors in Europe or how were you finally diagnosed.

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  • Dawn

    I am from the UK and now live in Spain but have my medical care in Gibraltar which is a British colony on the South coast of Spain. I had to fight for 4 years with my GP in the UK before she finally believed that there was something wrong with me, first she said that I was too young to hurt all the time and to get over it. I changed doctors and once again described my symptoms and was diagnosed with arthritus and put on treatment for this while waiting for the tests at the rhumatologist. Once I visited the rhumatologist he diagnosed me with FM and put me on Amatryptoline, referred me to a pain clinic and discharged me. I took the amatryptoline for a while but I was constantly "out of it, in a fibro fog" so I stopped taking it and felt better mentally. I still get the days of Fibro fog but not all the time. I went back to the docs to see if there was anything else they could do and they just prescribed co codamol to help with the pain, this only just takes the edge of it. Since moving to Spain I have not yet seen the doctors about my FM as I have been dealing with this myself, basically trying to plod along and forget about it but it is now getting too much and I am thinking about going to the docs but feel that it will be a waste of time, I will keep you updated with what they say when I finally decide to go

    9 months ago