Has anyone been diagnosed with Fibromylgia &HCV

[CK2HCVnFibro]

I suffered for 12 years multiple symptoms as was treated like most women, depression medication. It took time and multiple doctors, insisting and fighting to finally be diagnosed with Fibro. I still felt that there was more going on and after more doctors, tests, fighting, suffering and working through it all while raising my family I was diagnosed with HCV. I have done a lot of reasearch on medical and alternative websites and find many people suffer with both. I feel that there is some link and wish I had the medical knowledge to prove my theory. Is there anyone else out there like me? I also did the HCV treatment and had such severe side effects and weight loss that I did not complete the six months. My numbers are back up after a year and I definitely have ChemoBrain.

[CK2HCVnFibro]

Your response to my question about a link between Fibro & HCV on Aug 22,was a non answer. I was diagnosed by a Neurologist and Rheumatologist with fibro many years ago. My HCV was only diagnosed in 2006 and my treatment in late 2007 so saying that the treatment lowers immune response and may have triggered fibro didn't address my concern. (Which came first the chicken or the egg?) I truly in my heart, soul and every fiber of my being believe there is a link and it is being overlooked by the medical community because they still cannot explain the cause of fibro. I wish I had the medical know how to do my own study because I know there is some connection. All the treatment did was make me loose weight I could not afford to lose and cause poor concentration and the inability to learn new things-chemo-RXbrain.

[DoubleDose]

I am not at all surprised by the conclusions in the Janis & Friends article.  I have always KNOWN that my fibromyalgia syndrome symptoms were triggered by my HCV many decades ago.  I also assume that many of the extrahepatic symptoms that HCV+ persons have are part of the Fibromyalgia complex.  Maybe when we consider people with HCV that are symptomatic, we are really just talking about those whose HCV has triggered the FM...thus the array of debilitating sx.

  Maybe some with HCV are just lucky, and their infection does not trigger the syndrome.  I also agree that people who have been diagnosed with FM should get tested for HCV immediately.  As time goes on I believe that we will hear much more relating HCV and FM on a causal basis.  That's not to say that FM can't be caused by other triggers or catalysts, but I bet that HCV is the biggest cause.

DoubleDose

[Bill1954]

Here’s a link to Janis an Friends that discussed this subject:

http://janis7hepc.com/related_conditions4.htm#fiblink


by Nicole Cutler, L.Ac.

“…Due to overwhelming empirical evidence, some medical circles believe that the symptoms and presenting patterns shared between Hepatitis C and fibromyalgia are beyond coincidental. While Hepatitis C is known to be transmitted through infected blood, authorities are still debating how fibromyalgia is acquired. Due to similarities in manifestation and physiology, there is a possibility that Hepatitis C infection may be one of fibromyalgia syndrome’s triggers. If you suspect having both conditions, awareness of this link can lead you to seek the specialized evaluation and care that may improve your most frustrating symptoms…”

Bill