In any case, I’d like to know what’s *really* going on when my muscles get pressed just a little bit, then erupt in massive pain, cause the docs seem to have labeled it “fat, whiny bitch syndrome” and completely discount it. A diet centered around grass-fed ruminant meat and some movement help quite a bit, but it’s hard to move enough when your pain responses are completely screwed up. In my case, I get hurt easily because I don’t feel any pain at all, ever, when I exercise until many hours later, even if my muscles get so fatigued they’re useless. The results are worth it, however, despite the occasional day when I’m not as careful as I should be.

I think fibromyalgia more of a label when people in modern medicine have given up or are annoyed and don’t want to figure out what the problem is. It doesn’t help that they don’t know squat about biochem or human nutrition, and so give people recommendations that will make them fatter and the pain worse. Especially when the same underlying metabolic dysfunctions that are causing their problems are what are making them fat and crazy in the first place.

I do apologize about the rant, but I’m tired of the general bias against fat people in medicine, as if they can’t be sick simply because they’re fat (also works for too thin, or too pretty, or whatever the excuse of the day is). I’m fat as hell, but I’m also working to correct the problem, and luckily, I have the brain, the stubborness, and the general distrust to figure out how to go about it. Most people trust authority figures, because people are *wired* to be like that. It’s cute to think that these things are the result of some moral failing when it’s the inevitable result of biochemistry coming to bite you in the ass, but it helps no one.

The current “healthy” recommendations are killing us. Most people are too trusting, too stupid, or too indoctrinated to realize this. These same people think that because the recommendations have been “proven” to be good for us, that when people get diseases, either they must be unrelated, or because of some flaw of character. They then relegate the things they don’t understand to obscure categories where they don’t have to think about them further.

Give me a break.

I think it’s a way to group together a bunch of common ailments and sources of pain into yet another new, catchy syndrome for which they can invent new meds.

My boyfriend is an MD, and he calls it “fat, whiny bitch syndrome” so I guess that fits in with sedentary lifestyle causes for ya.

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