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  1. Kara
    20 April 2011 @ 7:35 pm

    I have suffered from migraines since I was in the 5th grade. I had no head trauma and didn’t know why, and I still don’t know why. Recently about a year ago my doctor diagnosed me with Fibromyalgia. I continue getting migraines, yet the severity and frequency of them has gone up.

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  2. Christine
    21 April 2011 @ 8:23 pm

    GOOD article. I have suffered from migraines for over 20 years now, since middle school. Almost 2 years ago I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I treat them as 2 separate entities, but like you wrote, they have many overlapping qualities, and often I feel that when I am treating one it is also helping symptoms of the other indirectly. It’s interesting, it’s confusing, but I hope doctors can make some more headway and figure things out! I def feel like both have made me realize that my body is highly sensitive — to weather changes, certain foods or food combinations, chemical in foods and beauty products, cleaning products etc.! The more I discover about fibro research the more I feel that it falls into the Neurological field, and my awesome Migraine/Neuro doctor is experienced in treating fibro too, so I feel very lucky that he is my go to for both.

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  3. Candace
    23 April 2011 @ 6:27 am

    Therre is strong evidence that fibromyalgia is caused by hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, doctors today ignore blatant hypo symptoms if the TSH and T4 or T3 are “within range”. For more information, google “Dr John Lowe fibromyalgia”. There are many people with both migraine and fibro, but this does not necessarily mean they are connected.

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  4. Sile
    29 April 2011 @ 3:19 pm

    I think the term misery loves company applies to the pain in migraine and fibromyalgia. I agree that neither causes the other but that if you understand how to get rid of pain, then other conditions such as IBS will also disappear.

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  5. Nanci
    30 April 2011 @ 7:29 am

    I just want to say that I have suffered from Migraines for over 20 years. Then I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, then fibromyalgia, then hypothyroidism. There has to be a definite connection with these auto immune conditions. This is a very difficuly way to live with all these ailments. The social security disibility board should be aware of the struggles of anyone that has these diseases.

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  6. Christine
    30 April 2011 @ 10:44 am

    Good one Sile, misery def seems t enjoy company! I agree, I practice treating my overall/whole body and getting it to a healthy state, and along the way a lot of my co-morbid conditions have gone away as a nice, unexpected result!

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  7. Celeste Cooper
    12 May 2011 @ 8:01 am

    Great article and I couldn’t agree more. Migraine is a comorbid condition, meaning that it occurs more in this population of patients than others.

    I am the author of Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain (co-author, Jeff Miller, PhD), and am well read on this subject as a patient and an advocate.

    Presently, I am in communication with one of the Rheumatologists that is authoring the Preliminary Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for FM. I have discussed with him my continued concern regarding symptoms of conditions (which also includes other comorbid IBS, IC, Raynauds, hypothyroidism, RLS etc) as what they are and not symptoms of FM. We have all fallen prey to ACR criteria, but it needs to be changed.

    The treatments for these other comorbid conditions, including the presence of myofascial trigger points, which has been completely omitted from the new criteria (yet myofascial pain is the PRIMARY symptom of FM, and can play a huge role in migraine), are not treated the same. Certainly, drugs that work on the CNS, might affect comorbid conditions that are also centrally mediated, but they will not treat such things as hypothyroidism.

    It is important that headache, which could be listed as a symptom of FM, I suppose, should not be used synonymously with FM. That is the key.

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  8. JANET FERN
    18 October 2011 @ 7:46 am

    i had migraines (as a teenager) and now I have FM(diagnosed), I believe my mum had the same(undiagnosed). My brother has thyroid problems and my two daughters each have severe migraines. Could all these conditions have the same root cause? My GP has me on fluoxitine plus pain killers. If my daughters have Hemiplegic migraine then I am concerned that they may not be on the correct medication. Help, I am going round in circles!!
    J.

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