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" I'm sure that multiple-chemical sensitivity is a psychosomatic

illness.

I'm absolutely sure that breast implant disease is psychosomatic. I

am

close to sure now that Gulf War Syndrome and TMJ are also

psychosomatic. "

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Is Fibromyalgia A Pain Messenger Problem?

March 08, 2001

Lila: Hi, I've heard you say on many shows that problems like

fibromyalgia

and chronic fatigue syndrome are not medical problems. I wondered if

you

had considered it as a pain messenger or hormonal problem? This is

what

several doctors have told me, including my rheumatologist, who is a

skeptic and conservative.

Dr. Dean: Now let's make sure that we have the right diseases. There

are a

bunch of diseases that are similar and people often get them mixed

up. But

fibromyalgia is the one I had been most supportive of through the

years.

I'm fairly suspicious that chronic fatigue syndrome is really a

psychosomatic illness. I'm sure that multiple-chemical sensitivity

is a

psychosomatic illness. I'm absolutely sure that breast implant

disease is

psychosomatic. I am close to sure now that Gulf War Syndrome and TMJ

are

also psychosomatic. That leaves poor old fibromyalgia out there.

Now fibromyalgia is puzzling. Many people who do not have the

disease

cannot know that the only thing that separates fibromyalgia from a

psychosomatic disease is the little tender parts in the back.

There's 12

little spots that you push on the patient's back. If they are very

tender

in these different spots, or 8 out of 12, then you're considered to

have

fibromyalgia.

Well, this diagnosis is pretty vague. A lot of us have tender spots,

and

how do you push, and how hard should you push, and what other test

can you

use to confirm it? And even so, if a person's very sensitive, that

does

indeed imply what you said --that there may be a hypersensitivity of

the

pain fibers. But ultimately, we need to have the factual and

objective

information to be able to pass on to patients, so we can move

forward with

diagnosis and treatment.

You know, it's a very tough category because people get really mad

at you

when you don't acknowledge their illness even though it¹s in their

heads.

Take something like multiple chemical sensitivity. These people get

outraged when you tell them it's all in their heads (and we've

proven it

over, and over, and over it's all in their heads) but they still

don't

want to believe it. They want to be sick. They almost enjoy being

the

center of attention. There's something that is psychological that

feeds on

this.

A lot of it has to do with something we're now learning and calling

the

" no-cebo " affect. For example, if you have a breast implant, you

might

hear stuff like you should have this pain, you should have this

fatigue,

you should have this and this and thisŠ.and before you know it

people

start feeling these symptoms.

Multiple chemical sensitivity is an example one of those diseases.

We just

kept telling people that if you live in a new house and you have

gases

coming out of your carpet, you should get tired and your joints

should

ache and your sex life should go into the toilet. And sooner or

later,

people started responding.

I think some doctors feed this effect too. They open up clinics for

these

diseases, because they¹re often misguided. They often want to care

and

want to help, but what they wind up doing is almost creating the

illness

in patients they treat.

I get calls all the time from people. ³I went to the doctor, I was a

little bit tired, and the doctor said I had chronic fatigue

syndrome.²

Well, you can't tell that to people because fatigue is the most

common

symptom there is in medicine. There are a thousand diseases that

cause

fatigue and you can't label someone until you eliminate all the

possible

causes of fatigue.